Project Manager
Sargento

Leads and provides direction to cross-functional teams in the execution of corporate prioritized projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, culture, commitment, and goals.
*Your Story.*
You will lead and provide direction to cross-functional teams in the execution of corporate prioritized projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, culture, commitment, and goals.

*Your Passion. Our Culture.*
At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you're ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.

*Benefits that set us apart.*



* Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance

* Flexible Work Week


* Hybrid work schedule - Onsite Tuesday - Thursday with the option to work remotely Monday and Friday

* Compressed work week - Option of ½ day Friday




* Onsite Health & Wellness Center: includes a nurse practitioner, licensed physical therapist, dietitian, personal trainer, and health coach, care coordinator and work-life mentor

* Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation

* Relocation Assistance

* Tuition Assistance

* Access to Employee Store


 

*What You Do.*



* This position requires solid project management skills in the leadership of multiple cross-functional Operations project teams for the execution of strategic, medium-to-high risk new product development initiatives to achieve corporate growth objectives. Projects could also include new production capability, significant cost optimization gross margin enhancement and business process initiatives.

* Act as the Sales, Marketing and Innovation liaison between Operations. Serve as the go-to person for Sales, Marketing and Innovation project initiation and Corporate prioritization.

* In partnership with the Sales, Marketing or Innovation project leader, clarify overall project scope and timeline, and identify objectives and needed resources.

* Regularly lead project team meetings to establish deliverables, validate and confirm acceptance, track team member progress and project status, convey a sense of urgency to meet aggressive timelines, challenge appropriately, hold team members accountable and provide recognition.

* Provide direction and support to project teams. Gather and relay requirements to ensure the proper development and day-to-day operational activities are taking place to meet overall project objectives and timelines to commercialize.

* Identify, mitigate, prioritize, manage and help drive resolution of project and team issues, conflicts, constraints, dependencies and risks in a time sensitive manner. Implement and/or manage changes to project scope, deliverables, timelines and resources to ensure project success.

* Provide transparency to stakeholders with continuous communication through meeting minutes, project updates, status reports, presentations and participation in leadership meetings as requested. Escalate risks to management in a timely manner and provide recommendations to resolve.

* Establish and maintain essential project and product documentation and retention.

* Conduct post project evaluations and assess results. Identify opportunities for continuous project management and execution improvements. Champion and implement changes to increase effectiveness of organization.

* Manage and champion business processes, specifically Corporate Project Portfolio Management, and new product/Stage Gate project documentation, and the Integration Project Plan. Enforce the team utilization of standard operating procedures and other established business processes.

* Maintain and leverage knowledge of internal operational capabilities and associated cost of goods sold, to assess and provide input on operational feasibility.

* Actively participate on and provide thought leadership to business teams and project strategic teams as requested.

* Upon request, review Sample/Cost Requests for development complexity and potential team requirements. Provide support and coordinate generation of cost estimate assumptions as needed. Adjust Sample/Cost Request direction accordingly.



*Your Education and Experience.*



* Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university required.

* Minimum of 3 years direct work experience in a cross functional project management leadership capacity required with knowledge and application of project management processes.

* Proven experience in people management.

* Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required, or ability to attain.

* Operations and new product development exposure preferred.


 

*Our Story.*
With over 2,400+ employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world's first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.

To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en.

 

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