Project Manager - Manufacturing Operations/Supply Chain

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and manage project governance frameworks for supply chain and operations initiatives.
• Lead enterprise-wide projects spanning procurement, strategic sourcing, inventory management, logistics, transportation, distribution, and operational excellence.
• Manage project execution from initiation through implementation, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance metrics.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, resource requirements, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and facilitate collaboration among stakeholders across multiple business functions.
• Maintain project documentation, action items, project repositories, and status reporting.
• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, budgets, dependencies, and overall project health.
• Drive accountability by ensuring ownership of tasks and successful completion of deliverables.
• Facilitate project prioritization and resource allocation across operational and supply chain teams.
• Create and maintain dashboards, workflows, sprint boards, roadmaps, and executive project updates.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to project performance, cost, risk, resource utilization, and business impact.
• Lead project post-mortems, lessons learned sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support evaluation and implementation of supply chain technologies, automation solutions, AI-driven tools, and process optimization opportunities.
• Partner with IT and business leaders to assess system integration opportunities and improve operational efficiency.
• Build business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and ROI models for process and technology investments.
• Coordinate pilot programs, testing efforts, and deployment activities for approved initiatives.
• Ensure project objectives, scope, success criteria, and expected outcomes are clearly defined and communicated.

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MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.