Job Information
Pactiv Evergreen Director, Project Management in Lake Forest, Illinois
Overview
Pactiv Evergreen Inc. (NASDAQ: PTVE)is a leading manufacturer and distributor of fresh foodservice and food merchandising products and fresh beverage cartons in North America and certain international markets. It supplies its products to a broad and diversified mix of companies, including full service restaurants and quick service restaurants, foodservice distributors, supermarkets, grocery and healthy eating retailers, other food stores, food and beverage producers, food packers and food processors. To learn more about the company, please go to the company website at pactivevergreen.com.
Pactiv Evergreen is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Pactiv Evergreen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, religion, creed, age national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, veteran status or other characteristics or statuses protected by law. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please call (847) 482-4320 or email TalentHelp@Pactiv.com.
All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines and applicable laws.
Responsibilities
Position Summary
As a Director of Project Management you are responsible for managing and supporting a team of project managers to deliver on projects within your assigned portfolio. This requires engaging with senior business executives who are looking to undertake a major project initiative or change event, and work with them to help develop their Business Case, establishing the governance model, assigning resources, and all other activities associated with project initiation. You are also responsible for monitoring and reporting on all projects within your assigned portfolio, to ensure complete delivery of Scope, within budget and within the agreed timeline. You will be responsible for oversight on 2-3 major initiatives within the company at any given time and will manage both internal resources, contract resources, and consulting resources that may be engaged for delivery of the programs or initiatives. You will also be connected to other leaders within the BTMO and will partner with them on delivering their goals for their respective departments.
This position requires advanced critical thinking, advanced understanding of business processes and how to drive business value, and strong leadership, influencing, and communication skills. It goes beyond traditional project management into partnering with the executive leadership team to deliver on the key strategic initiatives of the business.
Position Scope
Manage and support Project Managers who are responsible for delivering the following:
Deliver on all project management activities for an assigned project or program from Initiation through Closure.
Demonstrate natural leadership and communication skills to instill confidence in business executive team of your expertise and capability.
Manage projects in any functional area of a business, i.e. Manufacturing, Supply Chain, IT / Systems, HR, Finance, etc.
Manage multiple projects or programs simultaneously. Potentially across multiple businesses, across time zones, internationally, etc. Includes travel nationally and internationally as required by the project.
Adopt, utilize and enhance the standard company tools, processes and templates.
Work with a continuous improvement mind-set so that all activities become inputs and improvements for future projects.
Identify and manage project and program interdependencies.
Manage external parties involved in an assigned project.
Manage project completion, handover to steady-state, and post implementation reviews.
Responsible for quality control for all outputs from the team within your assigned portfolio.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining program and portfolio governance across your assigned portfolio.
Responsible for managing resources across your assigned portfolio that will include 2-3 major initiatives for the business.
Responsible for partnering with other leaders within the BTMO to assist with development and delivery of their respective goals.
Responsible for managing risk and issues, as well as interdependencies across your assigned portfolio.
Ensure compliance with company policies for health, safety and environment.
Ensure compliance with company policies for governmental and local laws and regulations.
Key Performance Indicators:
Projects are delivered on time, on budget and all approved scope items to a predefined quality standard.
Strong communication on the project to all stakeholders.
Application of the company standard processes, tools and templates.
Professional engagement and interactions with all stakeholders on the project and in the company.
Positive feedback received of your performance from business leaders and key stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities
ACCOUNTABLE FOR
OBJECTIVE
Overall delivery and quality control for projects within assigned portfolio.
Lead your team in the effective delivery of projects on time and in budget.
Establish and maintain portfolio governance across your assigned portfolio of projects.
Provide the appropriate structure that ensures successful delivery of projects.
Resource assignments across your portfolio of projects.
Assess the needs of the projects within your portfolio and assign resources accordingly to support the needs.
Project Scope definition, stewardship and management to maintain integrity of deliverables without scope creep.
The Scope to be delivered is clearly understood by all stakeholders and is managed through completion.
Project Budget management to ensure costs are visible, traceable with no unapproved overspend.
The authorized budget is maintained. Clear line of sight to how the budget was spent for the purpose of traceability as well as future improvements.
Project Timeline is defined and managed to ensure all activities and deliverables are produced in the timeframe expected.
Project is delivered within agreed timeline. Management of timeline provides for future improvements to task estimates, etc.
Changes to Scope, Budget or Timeline are managed using approved change process and communication.
Changes are visible and managed with appropriate approvals and change processes applied. Process is such that changes become inputs for future, similar projects.
Resources to work on the project are identified and locked in so that the timeline and quality deliverables are acceptable to the stakeholders.
All project resources are locked in and their tasks managed to the required timeline and quality standards. Any resource challenges are proactively addressed to not cause any impact on the project or business.
Quality requirements are clearly understood by all stakeholders and achieved for scope deliverables as well as project management deliverables.
The scope is delivered at the quality standards confirmed, plus project deliverables are at the standard required of the PMO.
Project communications are defined and communicated to set the expectation of what, how and when project communications will take place.
All stakeholders on the project are informed at the appropriate times and with the appropriate level and scope of information.
Risks and Issues are identified, captured, qualified and quantified, then managed through to resolution.
Key risks are identified up front, captured and managed through resolution. During the project life, additional focus on risk and issue management is conducted.
Providing guidance and feedback to the business regarding any risks affecting the project, the solution, the business, the customer, etc.
To protect the business and the customer from any impact as a result of the project and the change it is implementing.
Bringing a level of functional subject matter expertise to the project to ensure all elements are considered allowing for a successful solution via a successful project delivery.
Be able to converse knowledgeably with the business resources working on the project and other stakeholders to ensure a complete and workable solution is being developed.
Decision Making Authority
DECISIONS EXPECTED
Timely escalation of risks, issues or decisions to higher authorities.
Management of approved budget to ensure a successful outcome on the project, but remaining within budget.
Management and development of the project resources to ensure a successful outcome on the project.
Prioritization of work activity.
Escalate to project leadership (i.e. steering committee, owners, sponsor) any project or deliverables that do not align with the communicated direction of the company.
Add or remove resources from the project. Feedback to the resources’ supervisor for performance review input.
RECOMMENDATIONS EXPECTED
Recommend any evasive action required on the project to stop the project, crash the timeline or to execute tasks in parallel in order to meet a business requirement.
Recommend to the project leadership any changes to scope, budget or timeline.
Recommend improvements to internal project management tools and processes.
Recommend communications or other stakeholder management tools for issue resolution and management.
Working Relationships
MOST FREQUENT CONTACTS
NATURE OR PURPOSE OF CONTACT
Project Steering Committee
Communication, decision-seeking, direction.
VP, Business Transformation Management Office
Provide updates, get direction and assignments.
Project Managers
Project management practices and guidance.
Project Team members
Address escalations and problem solving.
Organizational Change Management Team
Coordinate OCM efforts across portfolio.
Customer (internal or external)
As appropriate, depending on project type.
Qualifications
Essential:
Able to demonstrate 10+ years of formal, dedicated project management experience.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certified.
Able to demonstrate 2+ years in a formal capacity as a director of project management.
Able to demonstrate 5+ years working in a project management function in a manufacturing environment.
Able to demonstrate concepts of business analysis and critical thinking, including but not limited to: business case development, root cause analysis, business decision matrices, business process mapping and optimization.
Able to demonstrate experience in strategic thinking and guiding teams in development of strategies and roadmaps that tie to those strategies.
Able to demonstrate successful experience in managing projects across multiple business functions and disciplines.
Able to demonstrate effective implementation and execution of a governance model and communicate the importance.
Able to demonstrate a working knowledge of organizational change management.
Able to demonstrate experience in leading discussions and extracting required information out of resources to define business requirements, project scope, solution design and options analysis, project planning, resource management, risk and issue management, communications plans, then be able to drive projects through to a successful completion.
Able to demonstrate ability to confront situations that need resolution, no matter how uncomfortable the situation is.
Able to demonstrate superior verbal and written communication skills.
Able to project confidence and competence in presentation of materials.
Able to demonstrate professional interpersonal & negotiation skills.
Able to demonstrate a proactive style.
Able to demonstrate being an active listener.
Able to demonstrate various ways of influencing and how to apply those effectively.
Able to demonstrate being performance and outcome oriented.
Able to effectively set and manage expectations both internally and externally across a portfolio of projects.
Able to demonstrate ability to mentor team members to develop competencies across the team.
Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail including the ability to capture and record decisions, discussions and events for referential purposes.
Ability to travel up to 50% of time domestically and internationally (potentially Mexico and Canada only).
Able to demonstrate proficiency in using common office technology and tools. Must be proficient in MS Project.
Preferred:
Able to demonstrate experience managing projects and resources across multiple cultures, countries, languages and time zones.
Able to work from own home office when not required to be onsite at a company or customer location.
Certified as a Prosci Change Practitioner.
Job Locations US-IL-Lake Forest
ID 2024-24225
Category Information Technology
Position Type Full Time
Pay Type Salaried