Supply Chain Project Manager

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

The Project Manager has overall responsibility for facilitating the planning and execution of business continuity projects. The PM will partner to facilitate and manage the scoping, planning and timing of any given project. The role is responsible for leading cross-functional project teams to successfully plan and execute projects. This will allow for focus on execution, improved visibility to risks and issues, and will help to establish a culture of discipline and excellence in execution.

Specific Project Management responsibilities to include:

• Independently leads BCPs, (business continuity plan) projects of various complexity.
• Leads project planning sessions to collaboratively develop standardized timelines (networks) for projects.
• Utilizes MS Project or similar tool to develop project schedules with a focus on the critical path.
• Responsible for delivering Key Performance Indicators (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.
• Monitor and report 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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Must be comfortable working within an environment where formal processes and onboarding materials are still being developed.
• CPG or Retail industry experience preferred.

Equal Opportunity Notice

Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] . Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

the individual's skill sets, experience and training;

licensure and certification requirements;

office location and other geographic considerations; and

other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).