What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Portfolio Manager - Wood Products position at Hunt, Guillot & Associates?
The Lead Portfolio Manager is a direct-hire position working with a wood products client in the Monroe, LA. area.
The Lead Portfolio Manager position will work in the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to oversee all change related activity within the client's North American wood products business operations, with a particular focus on projects associated with significant transformation and growth. The Director of Projects will play a key role in ensuring projects and programs within the client's North American business operations in the wood products industry are set up to meet strategic objectives and can meet operational requirements.
Lead Portfolio Manager Job Description:
• Establish and run a portfolio management team that works closely with all business stakeholders to create a clear view of projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations, Business, Engineering or related. MBA helpful.
The Lead Portfolio Manager position will work in the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to oversee all change related activity within the client's North American wood products business operations, with a particular focus on projects associated with significant transformation and growth. The Director of Projects will play a key role in ensuring projects and programs within the client's North American business operations in the wood products industry are set up to meet strategic objectives and can meet operational requirements.
Lead Portfolio Manager Job Description:
• Establish and run a portfolio management team that works closely with all business stakeholders to create a clear view of projects.
- Lead individual projects and change initiatives.
- Maintaining common methodologies and standards, in line with minimum group standards.
- Maintaining repository of projects best practice, in line with minimum group standards.
- Maintaining project management tools.
- Working with the Executive Vice President and Senior Leadership Team to ensure that projects and programs are initiated and set up correctly, with a clear view on requirements, scope, budget, and delivery plans.
- Providing project management coaching and support to the business and providing ongoing guidance and challenge to those responsible for delivering projects.
- Maintaining a complete and up-to-date dashboard of all projects in the company portfolio (capital, organizational).
- Establishing and maintaining accurate management information of project-related activity.
- Preparing all materials required for monthly reviews within company operations, in particular updates on budgets, milestones, resource allocation, and risks.
- Facilitating the portfolio review itself and leading on the portfolio review section of meeting.
- Running the lessons learned process at key interim and project close milestones.
- Working closely with business sponsors, leads and other stakeholders to ensure consistent clarity and direction throughout.
- Effective management of project controls such as scoping, project planning, scheduling, resourcing, budgeting, quality and stakeholder identification and analysis.
- Actively identify and pursue new opportunities to improve processes and systems to enhance value provided in project delivery.
- Determine the impact of upcoming change (local, cross-functional and Group-level) on operational departments and develop and manage readiness plans including informing recommendations on go-no-go decisions.
- Represent company operations on external (Group-level) Projects managing intra- and inter-project risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Operations, Business, Engineering or related. MBA helpful.
- At least 15 years of experience as Project Manager/Project Director - with emphasis in project engineering/management and engineering design.
- PMI certification preferred.
- Experience with and/or knowledge of the wood products industry is preferred.
- Proven experience on large projects with a background in industrial manufacturing, and/or wood products (preference on large projects especially over $200-500M ).
- Experience working with a wide range of industrial process equipment such as pressure vessels, heat exchangers, distillation columns, filters, agitators, centrifugal pumps, blowers, centrifuges, bulk material handling and dust collection systems is desired.
- The following background/experience are a plus: change and cost control management; field construction and quality control; field checkout commissioning activities; proven problem solvers/execution who have dealt with high-level issues.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, and presentation skills.
- Ability to react promptly and efficiently to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to bring projects and tasks to successful completion through political sensitivity.
- Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
- Ability to manage a team of project managers.
- Ability to persuade, encourage, and motivate subordinates and others project team members.
- Ideal candidates must live within daily commuting distance of the Monroe, LA. area, or be willing to relocate to that area.
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