Projects Manager

What is in it for you

• The opportunity to take on some of the worlds most meaningful challenges helping customers achieve clean water safe food abundant energy and healthy environments.
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people perspectives and ideas to achieve our best.

What You Will Do:

• Lead/execute cross functional supply chain projects aimed at problem solving & continuous improvement delivers timely results incl. financial targets set for the Supply Chain tracks improvements ensures control and maintains accountability.
• Seek out and quantify process-improvement opportunities. Assesses/identifies risk to fulfill the defined objectives.
• Identify organizational barriers; works with Deployment Leaders respective functional managers Enterprise Excellence to recommend and implement solutions.
• Participates in project selection process determines benefits recommends resources/team members.
• Pro-actively identify waste in the process and uses Lean and/or Six Sigma tools/methodologies to achieve an efficient state.
• Organize plan review & communicate status including project presentations and status reports of projects managed.
• Train/mentor project team members in the DMAIC and 7 Step methodologies.
• Model operational excellence visibly demonstrating leadership/change management behaviors.
• Leverage Process Improvement Methodology and approach to drive benefits through successful projects.
• Network with internal/external resources to bring best practices to the projects/organization.
• Present projects to leadership teams of markets and the region.
• Run project ideation and selection portfolio management.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Bachelors degree
• Experience in Project Management
• Proven success driving change and ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Experience in manufacturing companies preferably in the Chemical industry
• Six Sigma Green Belt certified
• Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience in Six Sigma project management or continuous improvement in a manufacturing / operations environment
• Candidate must have a very strong understanding of supply chain and operations.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to influence/persuade decision makers and motivate team members.
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Self-driven and results oriented.
• Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint).
• Ability and willingness to work with large data sets
• Verbal/written communication skills needed to train/ coach others.
• Financial acumen (P&L Balance Sheet and Cash Flows)
• Understanding of standard ERP systems such as SAP Oracle etc.