Lead, Project Management

Nestlé S.A.; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Nestlé USA in Arlington, VA is seeking a Lead, Project Management for Marketing and Sales initiatives. You will drive top-priority programs across multiple business units, applying a formal transformation framework to deliver value and accelerate growth.

You will influence across levels, manage stakeholders, and lead in a remote-friendly, time-zone flexible environment. A strong PM and change-management background, including SAP experience, is required.

Qualifications

• Experience embedding yourself in key business areas to serve as a business partner or trusted advisor with ability to express complex matters in simple terms.
• Apply tailored Project Management and Change Management principles (ex: Waterfall, Scrum, ADKAR).
• Exceptional leader with the ability to influence upwards, downwards, and sideways; often without formal authority.
• High integrity, fast learner, high curiosity to understand all project details.
• Strong problem analysis skills with ability to quickly judge and decide while managing concurrent workstreams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for effective coordination and teamwork.
• Outstanding planning and organizing skills; adapt to ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Achieve results through individual and team efforts across SMEs, vendors, peers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Quality: Projects must positively impact business value and include change management.
• Build Business Acumen to contextualize project impacts.
• Optimize Time to accelerate projects and free SMEs' bandwidth.
• Support Through Insights & Analysis to mitigate risk and guide decisions.
• Manage Stakeholders with leadership updates and proactive communication.
• Ensure Collaboration across organization to realize efficiencies and connectivity.
• Establish Governance with clear progress, risks, and escalations.
• Continuous Improvement through key learnings.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Time management

Cross-functional collaboration

Remote work capability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PMP certification

Prosci/HCi certification

Tools

SAP

Job description

Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow. At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk‑taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Role Overview

Nestlé USA (NUSA) has an opening for a Lead, Project Management, focused on the Marketing and Sales functions, responsible for executing top priority projects and strategic initiatives within an industry‑leading company focused on accelerating sustainable growth. The Strategy & Transformation Project Management Office maximizes value realization for the organization by disseminating a pragmatic project management mindset to proactively simplify, optimize, and accelerate projects, decisions, and actions. The dynamic nature of the role involves working across a wide variety of projects, stakeholders, and business units to provide Project Management expertise that drives integration, re‑engineering, and growth initiatives. This role applies strategic thinking, a structured transformation framework and strong business and leadership acumen to manage and deliver complex programs and projects.

Primary Responsibilities and Scope

• Deliver Quality: PMs are evaluated on how their project contributions positively impacted the business and delivered full value (to include business acceptance and change management).
• Build Business Acumen: PMs have expansive business knowledge that helps contextualize and unlock greater project impacts or match existing skills to business needs.
• Optimize Time: Make optimal use of time to accelerate projects and free up functional SMEs’ bandwidth.
• Support Through Insights & Analysis: Help the business move through obstacles by identifying and mitigating risk to future project value or business growth and providing the supporting analysis within the overall suggested decision‑making framework.
• Manage Stakeholders: Act as the leader and conduit of information to Leadership by bring a forward‑focused and problem‑solving mindset to leadership updates.
• Ensure Collaboration: Coordinate across the organization to realize efficiencies, raise awareness of interdependencies, facilitate handoffs, and create connectivity across people and projects. Lead through influence rather than direct authority.
• Establish Governance: Implement a robust governance structure, facilitate appropriate communication of progress, risks, and escalations to Leadership, Project Stakeholders, and the broader Organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Accelerate the discovery and implementation of key learnings to allow for continuous improvement.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Prior experience embedding yourself in key business areas to serve as a business partner or trusted advisor with the ability to express complex matters in simple to understand terms.
• Ability to apply tailored Project Management and Change Management principles (ex: Waterfall, Scrum, ADKAR, etc.)
• Exceptional leader with the ability to influence Upwards, Downwards, and Sideways; often without formal authority.
• Must have high integrity, be fast learner, have a high degree of curiosity to understand all project details.
• Strong problem analysis skills coupled with the ability to quickly make sound judgements and decisions while managing concurrent workstreams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills that result in effective coordination, teamwork, shared knowledge, and ideas.
• Must have outstanding planning and organizing skills coupled with the ability to embrace ambiguity, change, and shifting priorities.
• Achieve results through individual project contributions as well as getting work done through subordinates, project teams SMEs, external vendors, peers, and cross functional staff.
• Have strong initiative as a self-starter who acts with a sense of urgency without sacrificing excellence.
• Possess the ability to think strategically and conceptually in developing creative solutions while maintaining the operational rigor and detail orientation to effectively implement complex plans.
• Ability to lead in a remote working environment with the flexibility to work around different time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field required; master’s degree preferred.
• Five or more years of professional experience, including at least three years in project management across process, IT, or M&A initiatives.
• Experience leading SAP or other technology implementations.
• Project management certification preferred (e.g., PMP).
• Change management certification preferred (e.g., Prosci, HCI).
• Experience with stakeholder management and large-scale organizational.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% based on project need in rare circumstances with expected travel to be around 10%.

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Salary:$139,000.00 to$165,000.00 per year

Bonus Eligibility:Yes

Thepay rangeprovided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more athttps://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

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Arlington, VA, US, 22209 Solon, OH, US, 44139

Nearest Major Market: Arlington Virginia

Nearest Secondary Market: Washington DC