Senior Project Manager Operations

Garmin International, Inc.; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Garmin Benefits

Job summary

Garmin is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Operations - Distribution & Logistics at our U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. The role mentors project teams and coordinates across departments to drive mid-to-large scale Garmin product initiatives.

The position emphasizes leading complex projects, maintaining schedules, and mitigating risks while collaborating with internal teams and external partners to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent
• Excellent academics (GPA ≥ 3.0)
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to lead a team and execute projects of any scale
• Advanced understanding of operations, IT and engineering issues in project management
• Proven communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams to resolve issues
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient with MS Office Suite

Responsibilities

• Leads complex project management activities and defines scope, milestones, and decisions
• Documents project scope, assumptions, requirements, and resources
• Drives effective team meetings and resolves conflicts
• Maintains complex timelines and milestones with risk management
• Identifies risks, creates mitigation plans, and coordinates dependencies
• Fosters cross-functional relationships across Garmin teams and external entities
• Contributes to new feature development and product research
• Develops tools to support project planning and tracking
• Mentors junior Project Managers
• Produces flowcharts and diagrams to manage project success
• Offers solutions for process improvements

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Risk management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations, Engineering or related field

APICS Certification

Tools

MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint)

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-timeSenior Project Manager Operations - Distribution & Logistics at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for serving as a leader and mentor in project management activities between project teams and other departments in the development of Garmin products for mid to large scale and complex projects.

The Distribution and Logistics Team is responsible for the movement of goods from the source through the distribution channel right up to the end user, consumer, or customer. The Logistics team is the management of inventory in motion and at rest. It is the planning, execution and control of the procurement, movement and stationing of personnel, material and other resources to achieve company objectives.

Essential Functions

• Leverages advanced understanding/expertise of project management skills on complex projects/tasks, including understanding/communicating project scope, milestones, and decisions
• Leads provision for the timely documentation of clear project scope (Ex. assumptions, internal/external/regulatory requirements, objectives/targets, validation needs, resource estimates including costs/timing) for projects of any scale or complexity, even in cases where elements are not well known (Ex. Concepts, etc.)
• Serves as a role model for leading effective and efficient team meetings including ability to drive wide variety of efforts toward resolution/closure and identifying and resolving conflicts within the project team(s)
• Leverages advanced communication skills to ensure team members/stakeholders are appropriately informed, leads project tradeoff discussions and drives decisions to keep projects moving forward
• Creates and maintains complex timelines and milestone tracking and applies project metrics and risk management principles to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
• Drives project development and issue resolution through identification of risks/issues, creation of mitigation plans for projects within their segment and identification of issues which impact other segments
• Identifies and resolves conflicts through understanding of interdependencies of and development of effective relationships between the various team(s), other Garmin teams/departments, and external entities (Ex. customers, suppliers, etc.)
• Utilizes understanding of product domain to contribute to advanced concept/new feature development efforts and/or research of new technologies
• Leverages understanding of document control and change management processes
• Works to independently find solutions to challenges, including suggesting/leading implementation of improvements to the product development/project management processes
• Creates and/or enhances tools used to support project planning and tracking of development activities
• Makes substantial contributions to determining feasibility of project goals/objectives
• Mentors, evaluates, and shares knowledge with less-experienced Project Managers (Project Manager 1 & 2)
• Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques
• Prepares flow charts and diagrams as needed to manage project success and provides recommendations on new project opportunities and associated recommendations for improvements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Operations, Engineering or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills as well as effective customer service skills
• Ability to lead a team as well as successfully execute projects of any scale or complexity
• Advanced understanding of Operations, IT and Engineering issues as they relate to engineering project management, including ability to successfully identify/mitigate risks
• Proven communication, interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills through success in previous project management experience
• Demonstrated success in bringing together cross functional teams for effective problem resolution
• Previous experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Proficient computer skills in MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize/execute tasks in high-pressure environment
• Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment

Desired Qualifications

• APICS Certified (American Production and Inventory Control Society)
• Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
• Previous experience with Oracle ERP demonstrating technical competence in configuration of business functional modules
• General understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design
• General understanding of Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits