Head of Project Management

Description

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago, IL.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and a real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE

From your PASSION to ours

L.eading a team of Business Process Experts and partnering closely with the IT team and business leaders, the Director of Project Management ensures enterprise changes are successfully executed on time, within budget, with limited disruption and that lasting benefits are achieved.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Facilitates planning and communication between the Global Lactalis Core Model Team, the US IT Team, and the business to ensure clarity and alignment on project strategy, goals, and execution
• Formulates and gains approval for overall program plans in consultation with senior management and stakeholders
• Partners with development team members to drive accountability of program-project tasks and deliverables
• Manages the BPO team to ensure business engagement and input throughout the project: realization, design, training, testing, go-live preparation and post-go-live support
• Manages program budgets generates forecasts and tracks actuals against forecasts
• Monitors progress to plan and implements corrective actions or contingencies as needed to maintain commitments
• Provides management with regular program status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions
• Works closely with functional management to gain resource commitments and resolve issues
• Ensures the human aspects of change are managed in such a way that enterprise changes are smoothly and successfully implemented and lasting benefits are achieved.
• Ensures program team activities and decisions are clearly communicated and documented

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in business or a related field
• 10 years of experience working in a large business environment; food industry or CPG preferred
• Management/participation in SAP implementation projects, SAP S4 HANA experience preferred
• Experience in multiple project management methodologies, with the ability to adapt best practices to specific business contexts

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven project management skills
• Leadership and impact: ability to lead and drive change
• Proven ability to define strategy in a collaborative work environment
• Strong business acumen
• Demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all functions and levels of the organization
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Strong analytical, time-management, and facilitation skills
• Independent, self-motivated, self-managing, proactive, and responsive with a bias for action and results
• Proven ability to succeed in a fast-paced changing work environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)