Senior Project Manager

The Sr. Project Manager leads large-scale, complex, and cross-functional projects using PMI-aligned practices to ensure successful delivery of scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives. Responsibilities include planning and coordinating project activities, developing schedules, tracking financials, maintaining documentation, escalating risks, ensuring stakeholder alignment, and communicating to every level of the organization. This role drives continuous improvement, promotes PMO standards, and serves as a key communication link across teams and leadership.

Additional Information:

20% Travel

This position is not remote or hybrid. The role is based at the new Cleveland headquarters and requires in office attendance five days per week.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

1. Provide planning, coordination and monitoring support for complex operational, IT and business initiatives

• Maintain accurate and timely project plans, meeting notes, status reporting and other relevant project documentation
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and tasks. Assist in defining scope, deliverables, success criteria and key metrics of the project in conjunction with project leadership and other key stakeholders
• Monitor project cost and resource usage where appropriate
• Escalate risks and issues that have potential to impact project(s)
• Respond to stakeholder requests for information

1. Identify and recommend best practices, techniques and tools for project planning, execution, tracking, communication and key performance metrics for the department
   • Share lessons learned and best practices across programs, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels

• Manage project administration, independently assess areas of improvement, and collect feedback for a lessons learned report
• Advise project leads and team members on project management best practices
• Guide and support colleagues, helping them develop skills, knowledge, and confidence by providing advice, feedback, and resources, while fostering a positive and inclusive environment for growth.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
• Must have a bachelor's degree in business, science or technology field
• Must have a Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
• Must have at least seven (7) years of significant experience in one, or more of the following fields: Operations (supply chain, manufacturing, order management, engineering and procurement), finance, technical (R&D), EHS, regulatory, sales and marketing functions, and related support IT systems
• Fundamental knowledge of project management methodology, tools and techniques
• Knowledge of project scheduling and monitoring tools
• Experience with process mapping and implementation
• Working knowledge of transactional lean principles and techniques
• Experience in project management, or a functional leadership role on supporting large or complex multi-functional and multi-divisional projects, including business or system integrations, acquisitions or rationalizations
• Must have experience with Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have a Masters degree or high in Business Administration (MBA)