Remote AI-Driven Transformation Project Manager

Celestica; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica is seeking a Project Manager in the Americas region with a remote-work arrangement for candidates in Canada. You will drive planning, governance, and execution of strategic projects, partnering with Solutions Architects, GCUs, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure aligned objectives, milestones, and measurable success.

The role emphasizes AI adoption and the evaluation of PM tools to improve transparency and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, initiatives, or workstreams in a complex, cross-functional environment.
• Experience developing project plans, schedules, governance routines, status reports, risk and issue registers, dependency tracking, and executive updates.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate stakeholders, manage commitments, and drive follow-through without direct authority over all contributors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, decision-oriented messages.
• Demonstrated experience preparing executive presentations, business-review materials, meeting content, and decision documents.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, including presentation and spreadsheet applications.
• Experience using project-management, collaboration, workflow, automation, or AI-enabled platforms.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, operate effectively with ambiguity, and meet time-sensitive deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Project Planning, Governance, and Delivery: Translate strategic priorities into structured project plans with clear scope, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, owners, and success metrics.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across CCS Business Operations and partner teams.
• Track progress against schedule, resources, risks, dependencies, and commitments.
• Establish fit-for-purpose governance, including operating cadence, status reporting, decision forums, and change control.
• Identify emerging risks/issues and drive mitigation, escalation, and resolution with key stakeholders.
• Support project initiation (business case, outcomes, scope) and formal closeout (lessons learned, handoffs, documentation).
• Project Management and Executive Operating Support: Support the Vice President in prioritizing, managing, and coordinating CCS Business Operations initiatives.
• Maintain a consolidated view of portfolio health, risks, decisions required, and resource considerations.
• Prepare concise, decision-oriented executive summaries, leadership updates, and coherent business reporting.
• Highlight trade-offs, gaps, and required interventions to facilitate timely executive decisions.
• Manage documentation, version control, and accessible centralized repositories.
• AI Adoption and Business Enablement: Coordinate initiatives to introduce and scale practical AI use cases across CCS Business Operations.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities that boost productivity, quality, speed, and insights.
• Develop rollout plans for AI pilots, covering use-case definition, stakeholder alignment, training, and value tracking.
• Establish adoption metrics and feedback loops to measure usage, risks, and business impact.
• Promote responsible AI adoption in alignment with technology, security, privacy, and legal standards.
• Document reusable best practices to enable repeatable AI adoption across the organization.
• Project-Management Tool Evaluation and Adoption: Lead structured evaluations of PM, collaboration, and workflow tools based on business requirements.
• Assess usability, integration, governance, security, scalability, and overall business value.
• Coordinate tool pilots and proof-of-concept implementations, including configuration, training, and feedback collection.
• Develop implementation and change management plans to drive sustained tool adoption.
• Automate manual status collection, improve visibility, strengthen accountability, and speed up decision-making.
• Meeting Management and Follow-Through: Schedule and facilitate project meetings with clear agendas, pre-reads, decision requests, and target outcomes.
• Capture and promptly distribute decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
• Drive action-item closure, escalating unresolved or aging blockers with recommended next steps.
• Process Improvement and Project Controls: Establish repeatable, PMP-aligned project management practices and controls across CCS Business Operations.
• Streamline workflows and information flows using PM, automation, and AI-enabled tools.
• Maintain auditable project records to support decision-making and organizational learning.
• Translate lessons learned into continuous process improvements.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead through influence in a matrixed, geographically distributed environment.
• Drive clarity when objectives, ownership, priorities, or timelines shift.
• Build productive relationships across project teams, functional leaders, vendors, and external partners.
• Foster proactive communication, constructive problem-solving, accountability, and execution excellence.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Risk and issue management

Office/Workspace tools

AI pilot planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PM tools

Collaboration tools

Automation platforms

AI-enabled platforms

Job description

Celestica is seeking a Project Manager in the Americas region with a remote-work arrangement for candidates in Canada. You will drive planning, governance, and execution of strategic projects, partnering with Solutions Architects, GCUs, Engineering, Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure aligned objectives, milestones, and measurable success.

The role emphasizes AI adoption and the evaluation of PM tools to improve transparency and decision-making.