Project Manager - Kansas City, MO

Meyer Lab; Blue Springs (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Strong company culture

Job summary

Meyer Lab seeks a results-driven Project Manager to lead enterprise-wide initiatives from concept through implementation, aligning with business objectives, budgets, and timelines. You will partner with leaders to drive operational improvements, scalability, and transformation across functions, including GTM finance and technology.

You will establish governance, manage risks, and report outcomes while coordinating with external partners to deliver measurable value and successful integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects and business transformations.
• Lean, Continuous Improvement, or similar methodologies experience preferred.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and post-acquisition integrations, including integration playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment with objectives, priorities, budgets, and timelines.
• Partner with leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute initiatives that improve operational and sales performance and scalability.
• Establish and manage project governance with plans, budgets, milestones, risk management, change control, and executive reporting.
• Lead cross-functional teams across operations, GTM finance, and technology, plus external partners, to achieve business outcomes.
• Identify process improvements by analyzing workflows and bottlenecks; present recommendations to executive leadership.
• Implement technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to streamline operations and support growth.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans, SOPs, and implementation playbooks.
• Lead change management activities including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption of new processes and tools.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and business outcomes to ensure value delivery.
• Oversee acquisition integrations, including playbook refinement, process alignment, systems integration, and synergy realization.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with disciplined processes and operationalization to transform the organization.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Process improvement

Change management

KPIs & reporting

Stakeholder communication

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or related field

PMP certification

Tools

Smartsheet

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Summary

Meyer Lab is seeking a results-driven Project Manager. The Project Manager leads execution on strategic initiatives and business transformation efforts that improve organizational performance, support organizational growth, and drive enterprise-wide changes. This role partners with cross functional business leaders to deliver measurable business value through process improvement, technology enablement, organizational change, and effective project execution.

• Lead enterprise-wide initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives, strategic priorities, budgets, and timelines.
• Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute initiatives that improve operational and sales performance, scalability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Establish and manage project governance, including project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, risk management, change control processes, and executive reporting.
• Lead cross-functional teams consisting of operations, go-to-market (GTM) finance, and technology business stakeholders, along with external partners, to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Identify process improvement opportunities by analyzing workflows, bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies, and present recommendations to executive leadership that improve productivity, quality, and customer experience.
• Implement technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and support business growth.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans, functional specifications, SOPs, process documentation, and implementation playbooks.
• Partner with business leaders to lead change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and business outcomes to ensure initiatives deliver expected operational, financial, and strategic value.
• Lead acquisition integration initiatives, including integration playbook refinement and implementation, process alignment, systems integration, organizational readiness, and synergy realization while meeting established timelines.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects while executing the disciplined work of defining processes, implementing systems, and building the operational foundation required to transform and professionalize the organization.

Brief Description

Meyer Lab is seeking a results-driven Project Manager. The Project Manager leads execution on strategic initiatives and business transformation efforts that improve organizational performance, support organizational growth, and drive enterprise-wide changes. This role partners with cross functional business leaders to deliver measurable business value through process improvement, technology enablement, organizational change, and effective project execution.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives, strategic priorities, budgets, and timelines.
• Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute initiatives that improve operational and sales performance, scalability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Establish and manage project governance, including project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, risk management, change control processes, and executive reporting.
• Lead cross-functional teams consisting of operations, go-to-market (GTM) finance, and technology business stakeholders, along with external partners, to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Identify process improvement opportunities by analyzing workflows, bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies, and present recommendations to executive leadership that improve productivity, quality, and customer experience.
• Implement technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and support business growth.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans, functional specifications, SOPs, process documentation, and implementation playbooks.
• Partner with business leaders to lead change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and business outcomes to ensure initiatives deliver expected operational, financial, and strategic value.
• Lead acquisition integration initiatives, including integration playbook refinement and implementation, process alignment, systems integration, organizational readiness, and synergy realization while meeting established timelines.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects while executing the disciplined work of defining processes, implementing systems, and building the operational foundation required to transform and professionalize the organization.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Proven ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality, accountability, alignment with business objectives, and consistent delivery against established deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking capabilities.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and influencing skills with the ability to build credibility across all organizational levels, navigate difficult conversations, and provide constructive feedback.
• Proven ability to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into practical solutions and documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and other project management tools (i.e. Smartsheet).
• Proven ability to lead change, drive accountability, and deliver measurable business results.

Required Work Experience

• Proven project management experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects and business transformation initiatives within mid-market organizations.
• Proven success developing and executing project plans, budgets, resource strategies, timelines, and implementation roadmaps.
• Experience driving process improvement, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness initiatives; Lean, Continuous Improvement, or similar methodology experience preferred.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and post-acquisition integrations, including integration playbook development and implementation, process harmonization, systems integration, organizational alignment, and synergy realization.

Preferred Work Experience

• Experience leading technology-enabled transformation efforts, including automation, systems optimization, and business process improvements.
• Experience within manufacturing, supply chain, or sales environments preferred, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Education

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related field preferred.
• Project Management Professional certification preferred.

Travel & Physical Requirements

• Travel will be required as business needs require. Examples: field ride days with the go-to-market team and acquisition site visits and integration work.
• Desk and computer work required.
• Lifting required up to 50 lbs.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary
• Competitive benefits package
• 401(k) with company match
• Fantastic company culture with a work hard, play hard mentality

Company Info

For over forty-seven years, Meyer Lab has continued to pour our profits into Research and Development to custom blend chemicals to meet customer’s unique needs! This innovative technology has fueled growth, and Meyer Lab is now one of the fastest growing industrial chemical manufactures in the nation. Meyer Lab is recognized among industrial, flexographic, food processing, transportation, and distribution center users as having value added, premium products and systems. To learn more about our company, team, and core values, visit our website at www.meyerlab.com.

Meyer Laboratory, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.