Supply Chain Project Manager

Menasha Corporation; Edison (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Menasha Corporation is seeking a focused Supply Chain Project Manager to serve as the primary liaison between Menasha Packaging and customers for order and inventory management and supply chain initiatives.

You will coordinate orders across Sales, Operations, Logistics, Procurement, and Finance, ensuring clear communication and on-time execution while balancing costs and service goals in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or related field preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain, logistics, or operations in manufacturing or distribution.
• Experience working directly with customers on orders or initiatives.
• Strong coordination, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Experience in packaging, manufacturing, or industrial supply chains.
• Exposure to logistics, warehousing, transportation, or planning.
• Experience supporting new product launches or network changes.
• Familiarity with basic supply chain metrics and financial tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary supply chain point of contact for assigned customers on initiatives such as orders, inventory, launches, transitions, network changes, capacity adjustments, and service improvements.
• Translate customer needs, expectations, and timelines into clear internal actions and deliverables.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and internal partners.
• Coordinate customer orders from first runs through subsequent repeat executions, ensuring alignment across internal teams.
• Drive clarity around roles, responsibilities, timing, and dependencies without formal PMO governance.
• Track progress, surface issues, and ensure follow-through on commitments.
• Partner closely with Sales, Operations, Logistics, Procurement, Finance, and Planning teams to align execution with customer requirements.
• Facilitate discussions to resolve tradeoffs between cost, service, capacity, and timing.
• Ensure internal teams are aligned on priorities and customer expectations.
• Provide clear, proactive communication to customers and internal stakeholders on order or initiative status, risks, and next steps.
• Identify potential issues early and work collaboratively to resolve them.
• Escalate risks or misalignment appropriately while proposing practical solutions.
• Understand supply chain capabilities to guide decision-making.
• Support analysis related to logistics, capacity, lead times, and service impacts as needed.
• Assist with post-run reviews to ensure objectives are met and lessons learned are captured.
• Identify opportunities to improve how Menasha manages customer-driven supply chain initiatives.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
• Help refine communication and coordination processes between customers and internal teams.

Skills

Coordination

Communication

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Operations/Business

Job description

ABOUT US (AND OUR EXCITING FUTURE)

Menasha Corporation is all about possibilities. Our two businesses, Menasha Packaging and ORBIS Corporation, are leaders in their industries, providing corrugated and plastic packaging products and related services to major global companies.

Our employees make the difference, proving that great ideas, collaboration and quality turn possibilities into success. Working at Menasha Corporation means that your insights provide cutting‑edge solutions for our customers. If you like to make things happen and are passionate about what you do, you’re going to want to be here.

Join us and become part of the power behind possible.

About The Opportunity

The Supply Chain Project Manager serves as the primary liaison between Menasha Packaging and its customers for order and inventory management along with supply chain–related initiatives. This role is responsible for coordinating and managing customer orders, inventory liability and ongoing supply chain initiatives, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and execution across internal teams and external partners.
This position focuses on orchestrating people, activities, and decisions across Sales, Operations, Logistics, Procurement, and Finance to ensure customer commitments are met and initiatives move forward smoothly.

Customer & Stakeholder Liaison

• Act as the primary supply chain point of contact for assigned customers on initiatives such as orders, inventory, launches, transitions, network changes, capacity adjustments, and service improvements.
• Translate customer needs, expectations, and timelines into clear internal actions and deliverables.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and internal partners.

Initiative Coordination & Execution

• Coordinate customer orders from first runs through subsequent repeat executions, ensuring alignment across internal teams.
• Drive clarity around roles, responsibilities, timing, and dependencies without formal PMO governance.
• Track progress, surface issues, and ensure follow‑through on commitments.

Cross‑Functional Alignment

• Partner closely with Sales, Operations, Logistics, Procurement, Finance, and Planning teams to align execution with customer requirements.
• Facilitate discussions to resolve tradeoffs between cost, service, capacity, and timing.
• Ensure internal teams are aligned on priorities and customer expectations.

Communication & Issue Management

• Provide clear, proactive communication to customers and internal stakeholders on order or initiative status, risks, and next steps.
• Identify potential issues early and work collaboratively to resolve them.
• Escalate risks or misalignment appropriately while proposing practical solutions.

Supply Chain Insight & Support

• Understand Menasha Packaging’s supply chain capabilities, constraints, and options well enough to guide decision‑making.
• Support analysis related to logistics, capacity, lead times, and service impacts as needed (without owning deep technical modeling).
• Assist with post‑run reviews to ensure objectives are met and lessons learned are captured.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve how Menasha manages customer‑driven supply chain initiatives.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
• Help refine communication and coordination processes between customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience in supply chain, logistics, operations, customer management, or related roles within a manufacturing or distribution environment.

• Experience working directly with customers on order management, supply chain or operational initiatives.

• Strong coordination, communication, and organizational skills.

• Ability to influence and align stakeholders without direct authority.

• Comfort operating in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment.

• Experience in packaging, manufacturing, or industrial supply chains.

• Exposure to logistics, warehousing, transportation, or planning functions.

• Experience supporting new product launches, customer transitions, or network changes.

• Familiarity with basic supply chain metrics and financial tradeoffs.

Critical Competencies

• Relationship‑oriented and customer‑focused
• Strong communicator and facilitator
• Execution‑focused with high accountability
• Pragmatic problem solver
• Ability to balance customer needs with internal realities

Travel

• Occasional travel (10–20%) to customer locations, manufacturing sites, or warehouses as needed.

Menasha Corporation consists of two companies that are leading the way to a sustainable future with packaging and supply chain solutions. Founded in 1849 and headquartered in Neenah, Wisconsin, we employ over 7,500 employees in 112 facilities in North America and Europe.

Our companies are leading corrugated and plastic packaging manufacturers and supply chain solution providers. Our Menasha Packaging Company is the largest independent provider of packaging and supply chain service solutions in North America, designing, printing, and fulfilling graphic packaging, display and merchandising solutions for over 1,800 brands, both in-store and online.

Our ORBIS business believes there is a better way to optimize today’s supply chains, with reusable packaging products and services. Reusable containers, pallets, dunnage, bulk systems and metal racks improve the flow product all along the supply chain to reduce costs, enhance profitability and add sustainability.

Our products and services are used by global, name-brand companies in the food, beverage, health and beauty, over‑the‑counter pharmaceutical, industrial, automotive, and electronics industries.

Come build an exciting, rewarding career with us, where you’ll have opportunities to grow.

Menasha Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will be provided with equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or genetic information.

Two companies, one vision.

The possibilities are endless. The power is yours!