Senior Program Manager - Supply Chain Implementations

Verst; Erlanger (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Verst in the United States seeks a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead multiple concurrent projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, and supply-chain technology. You will develop charters, plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and governance routines.

Translate client requirements into executable deliverables. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage onboarding, testing, go-live, and continuous improvement, while monitoring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Seven or more years of progressive project-management experience, including responsibility for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in third-party logistics, contract logistics, warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, or supply-chain operations.
• Experience managing customer-facing implementations, operational start-ups, systems deployments, or network transitions.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, risk management, financial controls, change management, and executive communication.
• Proficiency with project-management and productivity tools.
• Ability to travel to customer and operating locations as project needs require.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, value-added services, and supply-chain technology.
• Develop project charters, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and governance routines.
• Translate customer requirements and contractual commitments into executable operational and technical deliverables.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Operations, Solutions, Engineering, IT, Transportation, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Safety, Quality, and Procurement.
• Manage customer onboarding, site start-ups, network transitions, systems integrations, automation initiatives, and continuous-improvement programs.
• Track scope, milestones, dependencies, financial performance, risks, issues, and change requests; implement corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.
• Facilitate project meetings, executive reviews, customer updates, and lessons-learned sessions.
• Ensure solutions comply with customer requirements, standard operating procedures, quality standards, safety expectations, and applicable regulations.
• Manage vendors and implementation partners, including deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and escalation paths.
• Oversee testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost, service, capacity, productivity, inventory accuracy, and customer experience.
• Coach project team members and promote disciplined, repeatable project-management practices.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, information systems, or related field

Job description

Verst in the United States seeks a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead multiple concurrent projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, and supply-chain technology. You will develop charters, plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and governance routines.

Translate client requirements into executable deliverables. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage onboarding, testing, go-live, and continuous improvement, while monitoring