About Us Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure.
We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage.
Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.
What You'll Do : The Senior Manager, Project Management is responsible for managing the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of the region's specific cross functional projects ensuring consistency with Americold's strategic goals, operational commitments and the company core values.
• Taking the lead on planning and implementation of multiple cross functional projects with focus on ERP system development, process enhancements and facility expansions; • Optimise the utilization of resources, equipment, and technology, in order to deliver agreed project deliverables against the plan, minimising and controlling costs; • Manage commercial business cases, project budgets and costs; • Monitor and continually review project timelines to ensure key milestones are met; • Develop and implement robust project reporting tools and metrics; • Communicate with key stakeholders on project deliverables; • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs; • Ensure that all company policies and procedures are adhered to at all time by all employees, contractors and visitors involved in projects; • Create project evaluations and assessment of results.
• Elevate the organization is PM skillset and maturity.
• Performs other duties as needed or as assigned.
What Experience and Education You Need : • Excellent Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience working in a matrix and geographically dispersed team environment.
• Advanced Computer skills including MS Project, MS Visio.
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of Project Management.
• Knowledge of Project Management techniques and tools with certification desirable.
• Direct Project Management work experience in dynamic commercial environments.
• Strong people management skills.
• Proven experience in Change Management • Extraordinary experience in stakeholder engagement and generating buy-in.
• Proven experience in strategic planning.
• Proven experience in Risk Management.
• Excellent Time Management and multitasking skills.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of distribution and transport operations would be a distinct advantage.
What Could Set You Apart : • Strong operational knowledge and a demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced environment • Must be a reliable and engaging team member that takes buy-in seriously.
• Must be performance driven with a demonstrated ability to achieve targets.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Must have very strong customer service orientation with high sense of urgency in meeting objectives and deadlines.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with a diverse range of parties including, customers, vendors, transport companies, internal operations and customer service teams.
Physical Requirements : • The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job • Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions • Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending • Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work • Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks • May require travel by automobile and airplane • May require visiting facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing • May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 pounds • Requires the use of various electronic tools • Occasionally works evenings or weekends in order to complete objectives or to attend meetings • Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes • Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management Work Environment : The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What We Offer : Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being.
When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission.
We help our customers feed the world.