IT Project Coordinat...

Location:601 E 7th St, Fort Worth, Texas For more than a century, Ben E. Keith Company has been a leader in fine food and premium beverage distribution, and we strive to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations. Our Food Division is a complete broad line multi-state distributor, and our Beverage Division operates throughout the state of Texas as a proud distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, craft and import beer brands, spirits, and wine. We are dedicated to the growth and success of our business, our customers, and our employees—continuing our commitment to delivering quality since 1906. Are you a highly organized project professional who thrives in a fast-paced technology environment? Ben E. Keith is looking for a Project Coordinator to join our growing Project Management Office (PMO) and play a critical role in delivering impactful technology initiatives across the organization. As a Project Coordinator, you will partner with IT and business leaders to keep projects on track, identify risks before they become problems, and ensure teams have the tools, information, and support needed to succeed. If you enjoy bringing order to complexity, collaborating with diverse teams, and helping projects achieve results, we'd love to meet you. In this role, you'll work closely with project managers, business leaders, and IT teams to coordinate project activities, track risks and action items, facilitate meetings, and help ensure successful project delivery. We are looking for someone that can Coordinate and support technology projects from intake through completion Track project milestones, risks, action items, and deliverables Partner with project managers, scrum masters, business stakeholders, and IT teams Facilitate meetings, document key decisions, and drive accountability Create and maintain project, portfolio, and resource reporting Support PMO governance, best practices, and continuous improvement efforts Help ensure accurate project information across systems and tools What Makes You Successful Experience supporting or coordinating multiple IT projects simultaneously Strong organizational and time-management skills Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences Comfortable managing competing priorities and adapting to change Strong attention to detail and follow-through Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Microsoft Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint Why Ben E. Keith? For more than 120 years, Ben E. Keith has been a leader in food distribution and beverage services, built on a commitment to excellence, innovation, and employee success. When you join Ben E. Keith, you'll enjoy: Competitive compensation and benefits Growth and development opportunities Exposure to enterprise-level technology initiatives A collaborative and supportive team environment The opportunity to make a meaningful impact across the business Position Summary Seeking an experienced Project Coordinator to join our growing Project Management Office. Candidates for this role will be responsible for guiding the successful intake, governance, planning, execution, closing, and auditing of technology projects across multiple domain areas. What You Will Do Operate as a key team member and subject matter expert in the field of Project Management. Organize, facilitate, and audit the success of projects within the responsibilities of the department, with focus on identifying risks and preventing issues. Assist colleagues and leadership by capturing and following up on complex action items, task lists, and other documented and undocumented commitments. Work with IT and Business colleagues to build, improve, and deliver PMO reports, including but not limited to blockers, project status, portfolio status, and resource/team capacity and allocations. Coach project managers and scrum masters on PMO best practice, including but not limited to documentation, reporting, and facilitating accurate status reports. Schedule meetings, take notes, and drive action items and project tasks to completion. Facilitate the administration of project systems of record to ensure accurate information, efficient process, and adequate available training. What You Will Need Bachelor’s Degree or comparable work experience. 2+ years of IT project management experience, assisting in the successful delivery of multiple projects with varying levels of complexity. Strong project management skills including a demonstrated ability to plan, schedule, organize, coordinate, manage, evaluate, and adjust resources, work effort, and cost for projects of high complexity and risk. Business and technical acumen; ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the team in a professional manner. Able to solve complex problems, manage ambiguity and adapt to unexpected change. Excellent time management skills and the ability to make decisions quickly. Highly proficient with Microsoft Office 365 applications (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Highly proficient with project management tools such as Jira Software, Confluence, Smartsheet, etc . Physical Requirements Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards. Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards. Ben E. Keith (BEK) Company is one of the largest food and beverage distributors in the United States. We are a family-owned business with a long-standing tradition of supporting the diverse communities in which we live and work. Our competitive employee benefits provide health and financial protection to our employees and their families. Short and Long Term Disability 401K with matching contribution Employee Assistance Program Wellness Program Educational Assistance Program Paid Vacation and Holidays Employee Credit Union We have sought to create an environment in which the contributions of each employee at Ben E. Keith are fully valued. This means more than simply treating one another with respect; it also means considering how all our people can positivelyimpact the quality of the decisions we make about our business. Here at Ben E. Keith, we recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we want to do all we can to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. We believeour differences are also our strengths and we want to do all we can to use those strengths to find more creative solutions for the business challenges we face. Ben E. Keith is an equal employment opportunity, affirmative actionemployer. VEVRAA Federal Contractor #J-18808-Ljbffr Ben E. Keith