Project Manager, Operations

S. F. EXPRESS (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

S. F. EXPRESS (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and deliver complex logistics projects from initiation to closure. You will manage planning, budgets, and stakeholder communications while driving continuous improvement and risk mitigation across multi-area programs.

The role requires strong leadership of multicultural teams, fluent English and Mandarin, and proven ability to align project outcomes with business value in a dynamic logistics environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in logistics operations.
• < 140 characters
• Project management methodology essential.
• < 140 characters
• 5+ years in project and programme management.
• < 140 characters
• Ability to lead multicultural teams.
• < 140 characters
• Excellent communication in English and Mandarin.
• < 140 characters
• MS Office proficiency.
• < 140 characters
• University degree desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of large / complex projects to meet goals within time, scope, budget and resources.
• Drive resolution of conflicts and issues and own the project budget and business case benefits.
• Be the subject matter expert in the project area and build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Forecast resources, manage risks, and ensure communication across sponsors and stakeholders.
• Govern project management methodology and risk management processes; promote best practices.

Skills

Logistics operations

Project management

Stakeholder management

DMAIC process

Cross-functional leadership

English & Mandarin

Education

University degree

Job description

Job Description

• Manage the overall planning, control, status reporting, stability and delivery of large / complex projects (multi area or product) to ensure that project goals and objectives are met within agreed upon time, scope, budget and resource requirements
• Drive the resolution of conflicts and issues
• Own the budget of the project and performance against the business case to ensure benefit realisation
• Be the subject matter expert in area where the project manager has expertise
• Build strong working relationships and ensure delivery of communication to all stakeholders
• Obtain feedback from all stakeholders at critical milestones to ensure project efforts meet customer expectations
• Manage project and commercial risks and mitigation plans and ensure these risks are proactively communicated
• Responsible for managing and governing the project management methodology and risk management process
• Be the champion within project delivery for deploying project management and risk management standards, policies, training and development
• Conduct status checks and quality management reviews to review performance, identifying points of risk and making recommendations for improvements that lead to risk minimisation and successful project delivery
• Deliver best practice project documentation, completed to quality standards, kept up to date, available throughout the project and maintained in the project database
• Review project portfolio performance against the business cases and implement action plans to ensure benefit realisation
• Deploy previous lessons learnt output and feedback to drive continuous improvement
• Promote and support changes to continuously improve project management in alignment with international project management trends
• Work with project sponsors and stakeholders to forecast project resources and required to support project pipeline and deliver the project objectives
• Support the development of the project management community and implement the people management strategy to deliver business benefits through: skills assessment, training programmes, processes and toolsets
• Work location: East Singapore (Changi)

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in logistics operations (desirable)
• project management methodology (essential)
• Process improvement methodology (desirable), ie DMAIC
• 5+ years' experience in project and programme management roles (essential)
• Ability to lead and manage functional and cross-functional, multicultural team (essential)
• Customer-focused, customer-centric & customer experience mindset
• Highly adaptable & agile in a very dynamic environment.
• Independent & minimal supervision: Self-starter, self-learner, keen to learn things.
• Goal-driven, detail-oriented, organized with strong business & process sense.
• Excellent presentation skills, and is able to lead & manage meetings.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Good command in written and spoken English and Chinese, proficient in Mandarin for communication with chinese customers and counterparts
• Proficiency in MS office: Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint including Chinese word processing for communication with Chinese customers and counterparts.
• University degree (Desirable)