Strategic Project Manager

Description

At Reily Foods Company we've got a passion for flavor and have been providing iconic foods and beverages that create meals and memories for over 120 years! Our products consist of New England Coffee, Luzianne Iced Tea, Blue Plate Mayonnaise, Swans Down Cake Flour, and Carroll Shelby Chili (to name a few) and can be found in retail locations around the country.

Job Summary: The Strategic Project Manager is responsible for leading various innovation projects from scope definition through commercialization, identifying and aligning the team to schedules, cost estimates, project implementation plans, and risk mitigation. This person will manage projects with cross-functional teams from Marketing, Sales, Operations, New Product Development, Purchasing, Finance, and other functions as needed. This position will assist the organization in project process updates and improvements as needed.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions if it does not create an undue hardship for the department/company.

• Build and manage project teams to ensure maximum performance, clearly define goals, provide direction and motivation
• Coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments
• Multi-task successfully to manage multiple projects with overlapping cross-functional teams
• Analyze project progress and elevate any risks to scope, timelines, and costs as needed
• Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes
• Provide feedback and suggestions on process improvements as needed
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience: The minimum requirements below are representative of the education and experience required to perform this job successfully.

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in project management
• Prior formal Project Management training or PMI/PMP certification
• Manufacturing project management experience preferred
  
  

Qualifications: The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, abilities and attributes required to perform this job successfully.

• Ability to provide strong leadership and direction to cross-functional teams and present outputs to a broad range of stakeholders
• Highly entrepreneurial, passionately curious, willingness to roll up your sleeves, and demonstrate consistent initiative
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects with strong attention to detail
• Excellent timeline management and communication skills
• The ability to be flexible and adaptive when things don’t go as planned
• Strong interpersonal skills, highly collaborative with the ability to build solid working partnerships across functional groups
• Strategic thinker with excellent analytic capabilities
• Skilled at using personal influence to achieve results