Strategic Supply Chain Project Lead

Vaco; Erlanger (KY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring in the United States seeks a Project Manager to facilitate planning and execution of business continuity projects. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and commercial units, ensuring on-time delivery, budget adherence, and high-quality outputs.

The role emphasizes establishing disciplined execution culture, managing risks, and communicating clearly with leadership and stakeholders to drive project success.

Qualifications

• Strong end-to-end supply chain experience.
• Experience with product development and understanding how products move from development through manufacturing and ultimately to the shelf.
• Comfortable working across Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing, and Commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Independently leads BCPs, (business continuity plan) projects of various complexity.
• Leads project planning sessions to collaboratively develop standardized timelines for projects.
• Utilizes MS Project or similar tool to develop project schedules with a focus on the critical path.
• Responsible for delivering KPI's of project timing, cost, quality, and budget.
• Partners with Brand Marketing and R&D to define project scope & design.
• Lead formal weekly team meetings and communication methods that drive project execution and completion.
• Monitors and reports status of project progress and risks to leadership.
• Ensures project outputs are consistently high-quality deliverables, on time and within budget to all business objectives.
• Communicates project expectations and plans to the project team members, leadership, and other stakeholders in a clear and concise fashion.
• Leads identification, negotiation, and support of resolution to issues within cross functional teams.
• Maintains documentation as required by the stage-gate development process.

Skills

End-to-end supply chain

Product development

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Project

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Vaco by Highspring in the United States seeks a Project Manager to facilitate planning and execution of business continuity projects. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and commercial units, ensuring on-time delivery, budget adherence, and high-quality outputs.

The role emphasizes establishing disciplined execution culture, managing risks, and communicating clearly with leadership and stakeholders to drive project success.