Enterprise Project Manager (Salinas-Sanborn)

GENERAL DISCRIPTION / PRIMARY PURPOSE:

The Enterprise Project Manager is responsible for ensuring successful execution of strategic and operational excellence projects across all ogC business units and departments. This role plays a critical part in driving alignment, coordination, and execution across multiple functional areas to ensure milestones are met on schedule and objectives are achieved as planned. While the position has no direct reports, the Enterprise Project Manager will influence, guide, and coordinate senior functional leaders to remain aligned with project priorities and key deliverables

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS / DUTIES OF THE POSITION

•    Develop, maintain, and manage strategic and operational excellence projects covering scope, timelines, deliverables, and dependencies.
•    Coordinate with functional leaders to track progress toward project completion.
•    Monitor project status and proactively identify risks.
•    Maintain action registers, and any other record keeping required
•    Provide timely updates, dashboards, and reporting to the departmental leadership and executive sponsors.
•    Lead regular execution meetings to address issues, maintain momentum, and ensure clarity of responsibilities.
•    Serve as a central point of information for strategic projects progress, to enable the project sponsors to ensure commitments are upheld, and outcomes align with strategic objectives.
•    Model effective communication and foster a collaborative environment that balances input from senior leaders with the need for timely execution.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:

Required:
•    5+ years of experience in project management, ideally in business integration, M&A, or large-scale transformation initiatives.
•    Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple functional stakeholders.
•    Strong organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills.
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate competing priorities.
•    Demonstrated ability to deliver results without direct authority over team members.
•    Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
Preferred: 
•    Experience in mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, or enterprise transformation.
•    Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification.
•    Background in the food manufacturing or consumer goods industry.
•    Experience with operational excellence / lean manufacturing strategies and practices.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS 

•    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk or hear to communicate, as well as maneuver around an array of equipment, bend, stoop and climb stairs. 
•    The employee must occasionally lift (including overhead) and/or up to 15 lbs.

WORK HOUR & TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS 

•    Ability to work beyond normal working hours (member of the after-hours support team; may be expected to work beyond the normal hours of duty where system failure or upgrade requires the knowledge and experience possessed.
•    Ability to travel 25%.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION 

•    Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, project management, or related field required.

EEO STATEMENT:  We are an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.