Manager, Project Management (Amazon)

Still Sverige Ab; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Job summary

Dematic is seeking a Manager of Project Management to lead a team responsible for delivering complex automation, modernization, and upgrade projects across multiple sites. You will ensure projects stay within scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, and customer expectations while driving predictable financial outcomes.

You will develop the PM team, provide governance, and coordinate with engineering, delivery, installation, procurement, and manufacturing functions to ensure successful project

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years leading projects or project functions.
• Experience in automation, logistics, manufacturing, lifecycle services, or large customer-dedicated portfolios.
• Strong understanding of automation systems and controls architectures.
• Experience with schedule and change management and safety excellence.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop project management teams across portfolios.
• Provide governance, escalation support, and an operating cadence for multiple projects.
• Own financial performance, forecasting, invoicing, and profitability analysis.
• Build trusted customer relationships and identify follow-on opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Project mgmt

Risk mgmt

Analytical thinking

Multi-projects

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

The Manager, Project Management, leads a team of Project Managers within the Mods and Upgrades, LSS Business Unit. This role is responsible for delivering complex, multi-site automation, modernization, and upgrade projects across assigned customer portfolios and solution types. The Manager ensures projects are delivered within scope, schedule, budget, safety, quality, and customer expectations while achieving predictable financial outcomes.

As a people leader, this position manages and develops project management team members assigned to customer and solution-specific portfolios. The Manager provides day-to-day direction, governance, coaching, escalation support, and operating cadence across a portfolio of concurrent projects. The Manager acts as a key interface between customers, internal engineering and delivery teams, installation, Procurement, Manufacturing, Controlling and other functional leadership.

We offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Tasks and Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, coach, and develop project management team members, fostering a culture of inclusion, accountability, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Set clear expectations, manage performance, strengthen leadership capability, and support succession and career development for team members.

Project & Program Execution

• Provide oversight for a portfolio of concurrent modernization and upgrade projects of varying scope and complexity, including controls, software, mechanical, electrical, installation, system upgrade, and capacity expansion workstreams.
• Ensure effective transition from Sales to Operations, including pre-contract support, estimating input, and leadership of project kickoff processes.
• Drive the development and execution of comprehensive project plans, including implementation, testing, acceptance, cutover, and go-live strategies.
• Act as the primary point of escalation for complex project, customer, financial, or technical issues, ensuring timely resolution.
• Ensure alignment and coordination across project management, software, controls, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, installation vendors, subcontractors and integrator partners supporting project delivery.

Financial & Risk Management

• Own financial performance across the assigned project portfolio, including forecasting, revenue recognition, cost-to-complete, invoicing, cash flow, and profitability analysis.
• Establish and monitor project milestones, billable deliverables, and invoicing schedules.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, ensuring proactive issue management and governance.
• Ensure accurate project closeout and turnover to service and support organizations.

Customer & Business Engagement

• Serve as a customer interface, building trusted relationships and ensuring customer expectations are met or exceeded.
• Support identification of follow-on business opportunities in collaboration with sales and lifecycle services teams.
• Represent Project Management in strategic planning, operational reviews, customer reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills & Capabilities

• Exceptional leadership, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong customer focus with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Advanced project and program management skills, including scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality management.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail.

Experience Desired

• 5+ years of successful experience leading projects or project function, preferably in automation, logistics, manufacturing, lifecycle services, or large customer-dedicated portfolio environments.
• Proven experience managing large-scale project portfolios, and significant customer-facing revenue responsibility.
• Strong understanding of automation systems, controls architectures, and systems integration; solid working knowledge of industrial and enterprise software systems.
• Experience with schedule and change management, demonstrated leadership in safety excellence, permit and installation processes, material supply chains, contract administration, subcontrac