Project Manager

Project Manager

12 Months

Preferred: Warsaw, IN

Alternatively: Minneapolis, MN, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX

Job Summary

This position will provide project management support to various initiatives across the company, including: Operations integrations, quality remediation's, process improvements, system implementations and various other strategic initiatives

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

· Implement M&A integration plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources pool, milestones, deliverables and end-of-integration success criteria

· Lead integration initiatives and teams to realize synergies and/or execute functional area transitions

· Drive day-to-day execution of the overall integration process, including coaching cross-functional teams and leading weekly integration team meetings to ensure activity plans remain relevant and are being executed

· Implement the integration scorecard to track progress toward goals

· Prepare and conduct project status reports to update executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues

· Provide direction, oversight and coaching to M&A integrations consultants and contractors

· Manages project execution to achieve project deliverables within the budget

· Reviews deliverables prepared by other project team members to assure quality and provide additional insight and perspective

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e. KSAs)

· Strong oral and written communications skills

· Strong skills in change management, meeting facilitation and conflict resolution

· Strong presentation and client management skills

· The ability to talk confidently about the issues and success factors relating to such projects

· Consulting skills: ability to function in an ambiguous, unstructured, fast moving and rapidly changing environment, make quick sense of it and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project manager; strong oral and written communication skills; superior problem solving and analytical skills.

· Project Management Technical Skills: strong understanding of critical PM concepts such as activity plans, milestones, task dependencies, risk and issue tracking, status reporting. Formal project management training and/or certification preferred.

Education/Experience

· Requires a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years professional work experience.

· Minimum of 5 years of cross-functional project management experience

· Must possess an established track record of effective project management

Travel Requirements

· Up to 20%