Senior Project Leader

Avery Dennison; Little Rock (AR); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Avery Dennison seeks a Sr. Project Leader to ensure successful delivery of work, maintain standards, and train stakeholders in new workflows. You will coordinate with multiple teams including Engineering, Product, and Strategy to streamline processes.

This hybrid/remote role requires strong PM skills, stakeholder communication, and familiarity with Workfront and Azure DevOps. Join a global leader driving innovation and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field; 5+ years of IT project management experience.
• PMP or Certified Scrum Master certification preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront or MS Project for tracking and scheduling; AzureDevOps and Workfront a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders; ability to inform/update regularly.

Responsibilities

• Project Administration: manage project tasks, burndown, resources, progress using work management platforms.
• Project Onboarding and Closure: handle onboarding, requirements, work item management, quoting, scheduling, closure.
• Sprint Project Management & Issue Management: publish schedules, maintain plans, facilitate agile ceremonies, support Helpdesk issues.
• Reporting & IT Process Improvement: create and train on reports, drive processes, promote Agile values.
• Stakeholder Management & Additional Duties: foster collaboration and clear communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Project administration

On-time delivery

Sprint management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Workfront

Microsoft Project

Job description

We are a global materials science and digital identification solutions company with locations in over 50 countries, and approximately 35,000 employees worldwide. As a science and innovation company, we believe that diverse teams are stronger teams. We are committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and courage, where you can grow your career with a company that has innovation in its DNA. Founded on creating real-world impact to enable a better future, we strive to provide an open, collaborative culture where diversity of thought is encouraged and respected. Hear from our employees about what it's like working at Avery Dennison. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

At Avery Dennison, some of the great benefits we provide are:

• Health Insurance: Access to our large network of medical and behavioral health professionals.
• Retirement: Avery Dennison supports your retirement readiness financially through company contributions to the 401(k) Plan. We encourage you to save as much as possible to meet your goals. You receive an automatic contribution of 3% of eligible pay (even if you contribute $0) plus a matching contribution of 50% on the first 7% of eligible pay you contribute.
• Parental Leave: Your salary is 100% paid during your approved parental leave of absence as a biological, adoptive, and/or foster parent.
• Paid Time Off: We offer a generous vacation program that varies based upon your experience and position within Avery Dennison.

Job Description

The primary objective of the Sr. Project Leader is to ensure the successful delivery of work, create transparency and facilitate consensus among stakeholders, maintain standard workflow processes as well as identify, document, and train stakeholders in new or improved workflow processes. Workfront and Azure DevOps, a third party, online workflow management tools, are the principal tools used for organizing and executing workflows. Project Leaders duties include work management platform project administration, project onboarding and closure, sprint project management, reporting, issue management, process improvement, documentation, and coordination. Project Leaders may work daily with various stakeholders, including our customer service PM teams, roughly 12 distinct teams within Engineering, product, strategy and innovation teams, production facility team members, accounting, and others. Excellent understanding of standard project management practices is required for most projects including management of project plans, quoting, resources availability, project scheduling, prioritization, communicating status updates, and change management. Beyond standard project management skills, the Sr. Project Leader position will require an evolving understanding of client business rules and technical processes unique to Vestcom.

This position is a hybrid role if employee sits within 40 miles from a Vestcom facility. Otherwise, this role is remote.

Qualifications

• Project Administration: Uses work management platforms to manage the project and tasks within the project to show burndown, resource utilization, project progress and documentation.
• Project Onboarding and Closure: Drives project onboarding and closure including the following processes: business and product requirement reviews, work item management and development, quoting, scheduling, resource management, and closure.
• Sprint Project Management & Issue Management: Manages the successful delivery of project portfolios for clients including publishing project schedules, maintaining project plans, facilitating agile ceremonies, and supporting the Helpdesk issue management process in Workfront.
• Reporting & IT Process Improvement: Creates, monitors, and trains users on work management platform reports that drive processes, while championing Agile methodology values to identify workflow inefficiencies and train stakeholders in new workflows.
• Stakeholder Management & Additional Duties: Promote collaboration and clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders, including key business partners, and execute other duties as assigned by management.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field; 5+ years of related Information Technology project management experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• PMI Project Management Professional ("PMP") or Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• Previous experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront or Microsoft Project for project tracking and resource scheduling; AzureDevOps and Workfront experience a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to effectively inform/update internal and external stakeholders regularly on status and immediately on any issues.
• Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills to work with diverse teams, and ability to prioritize work requests from multiple requestors with limited resource availability.

Additional Information

The salary range for this position is $76,800 - $113,568 / year.

The hiring base salary range above represents what Avery Dennison reasonably expects to pay for this position as of the date of this posting. Actual salaries will vary within the range, and in some circumstances may be above or below the range, based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant skills, experience, education and training, and location, as well as the job scope and complexity, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel required for the position, which may change depending on the candidate pool. Avery Dennison reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected status.

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As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and productive work environment, Avery Dennison requires all final candidates to successfully complete a comprehensive background check and a drug screening. These checks are conducted post-offer and are a condition of employment. All results will be considered in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws.