Project Manager

Blackbook Executive Pty; City of Melbourne; Vor Ort; AUD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Blackbook Executive Pty is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a confidential, high-impact manufacturing and product transition program. You will drive integrated planning, SKU transfers, asset/workstream coordination, and risk-managed delivery across sites, partnering with senior leaders to ensure continuity, quality and cost outcomes.

The role involves governance reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and maintaining strict confidentiality throughout the program lifecycle.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor-level or higher in a relevant field (engineering, operations, PM).
• Proven track record delivering complex manufacturing/transition programs.
• Strong governance reporting and executive-facing communication.

Aufgaben

• Develop and maintain an integrated master plan for SKU transfers and lifecycle activities.
• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of SKU transfers and capability changes.
• Coordinate asset and infrastructure workstreams across sites with robust risk controls.
• Identify and manage operational, safety, quality, and reputational risks with contingency plans.
• Build and manage project budgets, forecasts, and benefits tracking; monitor variances.
• Provide clear reporting to governance forums and leadership teams; influence without direct authority.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Manufacturing

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Budgeting

Cross-functional leadership

Ausbildung

Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline

Jobbeschreibung

Our client, a well-known FMCG manufacturer, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the safe, disciplined and commercially effective delivery of a complex manufacturing and product transition program. This is a highly confidential and evolving assignment, identifying and selecting new suppliers, coordinating SKU and production capability transfers across sites, stabilising operations post-transfer, optimising residual operations and managing approved asset and infrastructure workstreams.

Working closely with the Group leaders, GM Operations, Head of PMO and site leadership, you'll partner across Safety, Innovation, Operations, Supply Chain & Planning, Quality, Engineering, Finance, People and Commercial teams to establish robust governance, manage complex interdependencies and deliver on business continuity, customer service, safety, quality, cost and timing outcomes.

About the role

• Develop and maintain an integrated master plan covering SKU transfers, inventory build, customer and supplier dependencies, engineering activities, asset plans and financial outcomes
• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of SKU and production capability transfers, including cutover, ramp-down and stabilisation plans
• Coordinate approved changes to production lines, utilities, infrastructure and operating footprints, including asset lifecycle workstreams (condition assessment, preservation, relocation, sale, disposal, decommissioning and site reinstatement)
• Identify and manage operational, customer, safety, quality, supply, people, financial and reputational risks, with robust contingency planning
• Build and manage project budgets, forecasts, cash flow and benefits tracking, while proactively addressing cost variances
• Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to governance forums and the Executive Leadership Team
• Build trusted relationships across other sites, influencing senior leaders and technical specialists without relying on direct authority
• Maintain strict confidentiality throughout, ensuring sensitive information is shared only through authorised channels

Our client, a well-known FMCG manufacturer, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the safe, disciplined and commercially effective delivery of a complex manufacturing and product transition program. This is a highly confidential and evolving assignment, identifying and selecting new suppliers, coordinating SKU and production capability transfers across sites, stabilising operations post-transfer, optimising residual operations and managing approved asset and infrastructure workstreams.

Working closely with the Group leaders, GM Operations, Head of PMO and site leadership, you'll partner across Safety, Innovation, Operations, Supply Chain & Planning, Quality, Engineering, Finance, People and Commercial teams to establish robust governance, manage complex interdependencies and deliver on business continuity, customer service, safety, quality, cost and timing outcomes.

About the role

• Develop and maintain an integrated master plan covering SKU transfers, inventory build, customer and supplier dependencies, engineering activities, asset plans and financial outcomes
• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of SKU and production capability transfers, including cutover, ramp-down and stabilisation plans
• Coordinate approved changes to production lines, utilities, infrastructure and operating footprints, including asset lifecycle workstreams (condition assessment, preservation, relocation, sale, disposal, decommissioning and site reinstatement)
• Identify and manage operational, customer, safety, quality, supply, people, financial and reputational risks, with robust contingency planning
• Build and manage project budgets, forecasts, cash flow and benefits tracking, while proactively addressing cost variances
• Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to governance forums and the Executive Leadership Team
• Build trusted relationships across other sites, influencing senior leaders and technical specialists without relying on direct authority
• Maintain strict confidentiality throughout, ensuring sensitive information is shared only through authorised channels

About you

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline
• 5-6+ years' project or program management experience, including complex manufacturing, product transfer or operational transformation projects
• Experience managing plant, equipment, infrastructure, commissioning, decommissioning, relocation or asset disposal workstreams
• Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, production planning, engineering, quality, safety, procurement and financial management
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and external contractors in a matrix environment
• Experience preparing executive-level governance reporting and managing complex risks, budgets and critical paths
• High discretion and sound judgement when handling commercially sensitive and confidential information

This is a rare opportunity to lead a high-profile, complex transition program with direct exposure to senior executives, in a role that will genuinely test and grow your project leadership capability.

This is a 14-month contract with the potential to become a permanent position.