Strategic Projects Lead — Cross-Functional Growth

GWS Tool Group; Vista (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GWS Tool Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional operational and commercial initiatives. You will provide project structure, stakeholder alignment, and measurable results while coordinating teams across multiple functions and systems to deliver value.

You will define scopes, business cases, plans, budgets, and success metrics, managing risks and governance to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and adoption of improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Seven or more years of project or program management experience.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives.
• Operations or Commercial management experience preferred.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or change management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic operational, commercial, and digital initiatives.
• Define project scope, objectives, business cases, plans, budgets, and success measures.
• Manage milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Lead project governance, steering committees, executive updates, and escalations.
• Coordinate teams across Operations, Supply Chain, Planning, Logistics, Quality, Customer Service, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, and IT.
• Deliver projects such as manufacturing improvement, S&OP, supply chain optimization, inventory reduction, automation, and process standardization.
• Connect ERP, CRM, analytics, automation, and AI initiatives to business outcomes.
• Lead change management, communication, readiness, training coordination, and adoption.
• Track schedule, budget, benefits, productivity, service, customer, revenue, and adoption measures.
• Apply PMO standards, support fact-based decisions, and capture lessons learned.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Facilitation

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Project planning

Governance

Risk management

Financial tracking

Benefits realization

Executive presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP

CRM

Analytics

Collaboration tools

Job description

GWS Tool Group is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional operational and commercial initiatives. You will provide project structure, stakeholder alignment, and measurable results while coordinating teams across multiple functions and systems to deliver value.

You will define scopes, business cases, plans, budgets, and success metrics, managing risks and governance to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and adoption of improvements.