Projects Manager

What is in it for you?

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments.
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth.
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best.

What You Will Do:

• Lead/execute cross functional supply chain projects aimed at problem solving & continuous improvement, delivers timely results incl. financial targets set for the Supply Chain, tracks improvements, ensures control, and maintains accountability.
• Seek out and quantify process-improvement opportunities.  Assesses/identifies risk to fulfill the defined objectives.
• Identify organizational barriers; works with Deployment Leaders, respective functional managers, Enterprise Excellence to recommend and implement solutions.
• Participates in project selection process, determines benefits, recommends resources/team members.
• Pro-actively identify waste in the process and uses Lean and/or Six Sigma tools/methodologies to achieve an efficient state.
• Organize, plan, review, & communicate status, including project presentations and status reports, of projects managed.
• Train/mentor project team members in the DMAIC and 7 Step methodologies.
• Model operational excellence, visibly demonstrating leadership/change management behaviors.
• Leverage Process Improvement Methodology and approach to drive benefits through successful projects.
• Network with internal/external resources to bring best practices to the projects/organization.
• Present projects to leadership teams of markets and the region.
• Run project ideation and selection, portfolio management.

Who We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in Project Management
• Proven success driving change and ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Experience in manufacturing companies, preferably in the Chemical industry
• Six Sigma Green Belt certified
• Minimum 6-8 years of professional experience in Six Sigma project management or continuous improvement in a manufacturing / operations environment
• Candidate must have a very strong understanding of supply chain and operations.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to influence/persuade decision makers and motivate team members.
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities
• Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• Self-driven and results oriented.
• Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint).
• Ability and willingness to work with large data sets
• Verbal/written communication skills needed to train/ coach others.
• Financial acumen (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flows)
• Understanding of standard ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle etc.