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Perdue Farms · 4 months ago

Senior Project Manager, Transformation Office

Salisbury, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$111K/yr - $167K/yr

7+ years exp

Perdue Farms is a fourth-generation, family-owned food and agricultural business that values teamwork, integrity, and respect. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Transformation Office, responsible for leading projects that deliver value across Supply Chain and Commercial functions, managing project budgets, and ensuring effective project execution. This role involves collaboration with various teams to develop solutions and maintain project management methodologies.

Food and Beverage

Responsibilities

Manages and coordinates all aspects of the project including requirements definition, vendor evaluation, process reengineering, design, development, documentation, implementation, and production support

Documenting project requests including benefits, costs, estimated timelines, and stakeholders

Managing project budgets and actuals

Evaluating potential solutions or vendor proposals, composing vendor comparison matrixes and making solution recommendations

Learning the Project Management Office’s software platform and ensuring the data in the platform up to date for enterprise reporting

Facilitating Transformation Office PMO and departmental meetings, including the preparation of presentations and reports

Working with multiple business and IT teams to compose detailed project schedules, monitor project success, track and raise risks and issues, and lead projects to success

Develop process documentation such as functional requirements documents, process flow diagrams, standard operating procedures, training documentation and other documentation as required

Works with the business units, plants and Company functional groups to fully understand functional requirements

Leads cross-functional teams to develop effective, efficient solutions which meet the requirements of the business, utilizing project management skills

Demonstrates attention to detail and ensures all details of the Transformation Office’s Project Management Methodology are followed to facilitate best in class project execution

Defines project resource requirements and secure resources. Defines project timelines and use project scheduling and tracking tools

Builds effective working relationships within the Transformation Office, Supply Chain, Commercial, IT, and the business community

Demonstrates the mastery of skills necessary to maintain and champion the use and maintenance of the Project Management Office’s project management software. Maximizes use of available technology and standard approaches to enhance and improve business processes

Demonstrates executive presence, organizational and leadership skills, and is comfortable facilitating meeting with 10+ senior level leaders on a regular basis

Supports Perdue strategy, challenges status quo, focuses on continuous improvement and support of business objectives, acts like an owner and executes with urgency

Qualification

Process ImprovementProject Management SoftwareProject ManagementAgile CertificationChange ManagementLean Six SigmaCommunication SkillsLeadership SkillsOrganizational SkillsInterpersonal Skills

Required

BA or BS degree or equivalent related work experience in Business Management, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Finance or related field plus 7 years or more related work experience

Proven record of successful Project Management on large scale projects with multiple teams

Proven record of delivering strong project execution in a fast-moving, dynamic environment with hard deadlines

Proven record of managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. Demonstrates strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrates executive presence and leadership skills

Knowledge and experience using project management tools/practices, work process analysis, improvement processes, and systems development methodology

Experience working for large organizations and demonstrated organizational awareness

Process orientated: Experience with creating process maps, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and similar documents

Must be able to travel (currently estimated at 10%) including overnight, to any customer area, which could be any Company facility, Customer facility for project activities, training, or a conference

Requires potential on-call, off hours, or weekend work as project schedules may require