Job Category:Manufacturing/Operations
Job Family:Enterprise Project Management
Job Description:
What you’ll do:
- In this role, lead cross-functional teams for assigned projects. Ensure adherence to Schreiber Foods’ project management process (EPM) in order to achieve desired project outcomes.
- Manage day- to-day activities of the project team; guide them to understand and apply the EPM process.
- Manage key project documentation and communication to the team and organization.
- Lead development of a project charter, communication plan and overall project plan.
- Manage team execution of the plan, any changes, deliverable completion, risk mitigation, and issue resolution.
- Close projects by documenting lessons learned and a scorecard.
- As a member of the EPM team, provide support for Schreiber Foods’ project management process via leading formal process training events, general project support, EPM process advocacy, presentations, and reporting, auditing, coaching/mentoring and organizational communications.
- Provide expertise in project management tools, exploiting the features of scheduling, resource planning, and work definition, base-lining and reporting.
- Leverage expertise to support organizational project work and competency development.
- Aid continuous improvement activities supporting the organizational maturity development of project management and the EPM process.
- Together with the leadership team, ensures compliance with Food Safety and Food Quality Plans, in addition to customer requirements.
- Interprets and communicates customer requirements to plant production and/or support groups.
- Establishes and Audits PCPs, CCPs and Standard Operating Procedures to define and monitor processes, to ensure customer requirements are met.
- Reviews incidents during which the procedures are not met and determines appropriate corrective action for partners failing to follow standard procedures.
What you need to succeed:
- Bachelors in Accounting, finance, engineering, operations, marketing, IT, human resources, supply chain, business or related field
- Minimum of 3 - 5 years’ successful project management experience required.
- Prefer 10 - 15+ years of project management experience with additional business/functional leadership experience.
- Spanish and English fluency required, Portuguese preferred
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal and conflict management skills.
- High attention to detail, highly disciplined, process driven and organized.
- Strong Influential and facilitative leadership skills.
- Self-motivated, high initiative and results oriented.
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- High energy, positive, motivating and strong team building skills.
- Desire and ability to teach others.
- Self-driven leader with ability to make decisions, build trust and facilitate negotiations.
- Acute political and cultural awareness.
- Knowledge of MS Office Suite.
- Strong or emerging expertise with MS Project.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to quickly determine/recommend a course of action with limited information
- Ability to travel up to 20%
Top Skills
What We Do
Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day. Based in North America, we’re a customer-brand leader in cream cheese, natural cheese, process cheese, beverages and yogurt.
Our more than 10,000 employees and presence on five continents enable us to be an essential ingredient in our customers’ success. With annual sales of more than $7 billion, we partner with the best retailers, restaurants, distributors and food manufacturers around the globe. We also recognize our responsibility to do good in the world and are driven to make a difference in everything we do.
We’ve come a long way since our start as a small cheese company in 1945. Today, our team is more than 10,000 strong at locations across North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. But our commitment to providing safe food the right way has never changed.
At Schreiber, we call ourselves partners, not employees, and there’s a good reason behind that. Our work is more than just a job. We make the company grow. We help each other grow and take care of each other along the way. And, we all share in the rewards.
Our people are truly the heart of our company, and we're on a journey together. We work hard to find great people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and provide opportunities to help them grow. But it’s about more than a career at Schreiber. Like a family, we care deeply about each other.
We strive to foster an inclusive work environment where all our partners can thrive. We've increased our commitment to diversity and inclusion by creating an overarching Diversity and Inclusion Council, as well as resource groups for women, African Americans, Pride, Vets and more groups that give a voice to all of our partners.
We're always looking for passionate partners to join our team and bring to life our culture of being customer obsessed and brilliant at the basics. Want to learn more about our company? Visit us at www.schreiberfoods.com.
