Project Manager (Innovation and Renovation) - Denken Solutions : Job Details

Title: Project Manager

Location: WA - Seattle

Duration: 12 months

Job Description:

• Client Coffee Partners is on a mission to elevate how our consumers experience coffee. With brands like Starbucks, Nescafe, Blue Bottle, and Seattle's Best Coffee our diverse product portfolio is brimming with rich and fulfilling opportunities for motivated individuals passionate about sharing their love of coffee and the moments it creates. Our culture, whether at home, field based or in the Seattle office, provides an inspiring and high-energy work environment that fuels our fast-paced growth, and our flexible approach ensures that we're fully immersed and positioned to pioneer the coffee market. Across our organization, we're creating a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day.
• Together, we'll brew remarkable things!

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Responsible for the impactful, effective, and efficient execution of our Innovation and Renovation(I&R) and sustainability portfolio of projects.
• Plan and lead projects end-to-end (E2E) and orchestrate a cross-functional team to achieve defined project goals.
• Manage projects with key stakeholders to ensure resources invested, deliver against the business case and bring expected return on investment.
• As a member of the Project Management Office (PMO) team, support the team's journey to achieving its stated vision, mission, values and scope.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Apply project management skills, leadership and subject-matter expertise to ensure the on-scope, on-time and on-quality execution and launch of projects through the end-to-end project life cycle.
• Activities include:
• Lead the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of the project
• Lead the definition and communication of project objectives, scope and key success criteria
• Define the project team, work with functional line managers to identify and secure resources and escalate resource constraints
• Build and manage the project schedule, define the critical path, track activities and hold project team members accountable for accomplishing agreed deliverables and timing
• Drive proactive opportunity and risk management and escalate critical issues to key stakeholders
• Coordinate and facilitate project meetings including project kick-off's, weekly status meetings, risk assessments, post-launch reviews and additional meetings or workshops as required
• Provide transparent communication of project status to project team members, senior leaders and other key stakeholders
• Identify change requests, evaluate impact, obtain approval/rejection from decision-makers, communicate and document change(s) accordingly
• Lead the project team to identify and share lessons learned and recommendations for future improvement
• Ensure timely and accurate entry and maintenance of project data in the project portfolio management (PPM) system
• Support the PMO team's journey to achieving its stated vision, mission, values and scope by planning and leading project management, process management and/or portfolio management improvement initiatives in alignment with our PMO team roadmap.

REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:

• BA/BS required
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification a plus
• Minimum 3+ years of Project Management Experience. I&R experience preferred, including but not limited to new product launches, graphics changes, new packaging projects.
• Prior CPG or Food Service experience (preferred)
• Experience with stage gate methodology (preferred)

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Developed project management skills
• Highly results focused with proactive service orientation and ability to self-direct
• Flexibility and adaptability to perform in a high-volume, fast paced and dynamic environment
• Highly organized with strong time-management skills and ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Quick-sifting capability (quickly focusing project teams and stakeholders on key priorities) and ability to pivot between high-level and detail-level
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity, identifying links between seemingly unrelated facts, ideas and situations
• Ability to lead and manage project teams
• Effective facilitation skills
• Ability to manage conflict and drive resolution
• Ability to drive for results through effective leadership skills
• Developed coaching skills – ability to coach junior project managers, ability to coach functional project team members
• Developed change management skills and proven ability to challenge the status quo
• Effectively collaborates and influences people at all levels in the organization through strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and project scheduling software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet) proficiency
• Ability to synthesize information and create concise and effective presentations
• Strong presentation skills across various levels