Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kenco is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead projects awarded to its Project Management Office, including facility start-ups, facility transitions, and system implementations. The role oversees project planning and execution, cross-functional coordination, budgets, risk management, performance reporting, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans specifying strategy, technical scope, goals, objectives, maintaining budgets, staffing, scheduling, contingency plans and allocation of available resources
• Coordinate project activities with Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Customer Support, and client staff to ensure goals and requirements are met
• Engage and successfully manage cross-functional teams
• Develop and implement effective communication plans both internal to Kenco and external with customer
• Proactively manage risk and issues and mitigation efforts as appropriate
• Use innovative problem solving and critical thinking approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across projects
• Identify and/or maintain metrics that drive and measure team and project performance
• Identify opportunities to streamline, automate, and/or improve the project management process to reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction
• Ability to manage and reconcile a Detailed Project Budget
• Preparing and presenting end of project reports, e.g. gap analysis, go-forward plans, etc
• Set Milestones and report status to Management and external customers
• Assist with Complex New Business Transition Proposal Responses
• Assisting with New Business Budget Development
• Serve as a Mentor and Trainer role for all new Project Managers
• Other applicable duties as assigned

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in industrial engineering, operations research, or supply chain management required
• 4-6 years of experience with product/program/project management or third-party logistics environment required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification required
• Familiarity with WMS, YMS, LMS Tier 1 Systems (e.g. SAP, Red Prairie, Manhattan, etc.) required
• Familiarity with facility layout drawings in a CAD environment required
• Familiarity with Kenco systems including WES and CWIC strongly desired
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification preferred

Benefits

• Medical insurance including HSA, HRA and FSA accounts
• Supplemental insurance including critical illness, hospital indemnity, accidental injury
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Basic Life and Supplemental Life
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off approximately 2 weeks (accrual begins on Day 1 of employment)
• Employer Paid Holidays- 10 days

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