Project Manager

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe! Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Primary Purpose Of The Position

The purpose of the Project Manager role is to scope, plan and execute projects as approved by the management team. This includes reviewing and managing high-level deliverables within and across business units, performing project reviews and ensuring project management best practices take place for all engagements. Work closely with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective business solutions for Ball.

What Will You be Responsible For?

• Create project plans based on business case, timelines, dependencies, financial factors and resources and ensure on-time, on budget, on scope execution.
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of personnel within the escalation process and the specific responsibilities of the PM in facilitating that process.
• Provide project oversight and quality reviews, coordination of deliverable sign-off, and project reporting.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Understand delivery methods (e.g. waterfall, agile) and can select, modify/align that method with the needs of the project.
• Manage the project change process and determine the impact of project changes on the business case, and re-forecast value creation.
• Provide oversight of supplier PMs responsible for program/project management and delivery.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of project management structures and disciplines across Ball.
• Provide project oversight and quality reviews, coordination of deliverable sign-off, and project reporting 
• Understand the business context of the project and uses knowledge to make appropriate decisions on project approach, issue and risk management, and dependency and constraint management.
• Ability to communicate across business and IT stakeholders, especially when changes to project need to be communicated
• Understand the demand model and assess impacts that result from prospective project changes 
• Conduct risk and issue planning, integrate associated outcomes into the project plan
• Build and maintain an in depth knowledge of the processes, systems, and data in a defined capability/service delivery area.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing to ensure business requirements are satisfied and ensure proper UAT documentation is produced (based on use cases and test requirements).
• Juggle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• All other assignments associated with above mentioned tasks, which employer assigns to employee.
  
  
  

What Are We Looking For?

• Broad training in a related field usually acquired through high school; college or graduate degree level education or work-related experience
• 5+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of project development and execution.
• Project Management Certifications are highly desirable (PMP, CSM, Lean Six Sigma etc…)
• Work experience in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies.
  
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

• This role is based in Colorado, and will require regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
• Hiring Salary Range: $ 83,200 - 124,660 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.
  
  
  

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

No agencies please.

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