The Role
Manages large-scale, multifunctional logistics and corporate projects from scoping through completion. Responsibilities include creating project plans, coordinating teams and stakeholders, tracking timelines and budgets, managing vendors, mitigating risks, supporting facility launches and customer onboarding, and reporting progress. The role requires logistics or 3PL experience, project leadership, change management, resource coordination, and travel for implementation and startup support.
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Summary/Objective:
The Project Manager will play a key role in organization, ensuring that there is a clear set of prioritized projects and that they are documented, implemented and reported as planned. The Project Manager will work closely with the organizations Leadership Team, Regional Operations Heads, vendors and contractors in the creation of project plans, implementation of initiatives, tracking/reporting of progress, ensuring projects meet expected completion date and that they be within budgetary threshold.
Essential Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Demonstrate to comply with Custom Goods’ Core Behavior:
Required Education and Experience
AAP/EEO Statement: Custom Goods, LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, disability, sexual and gender orientation, genetic information or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
This commitment extends to all aspects of Custom Goods’ employment practices including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.
The Project Manager will play a key role in organization, ensuring that there is a clear set of prioritized projects and that they are documented, implemented and reported as planned. The Project Manager will work closely with the organizations Leadership Team, Regional Operations Heads, vendors and contractors in the creation of project plans, implementation of initiatives, tracking/reporting of progress, ensuring projects meet expected completion date and that they be within budgetary threshold.
Essential Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Project Management of key projects and oversight of all network projects for Operations and all Corporate departments.
- Build, manage and standardize project plans within multiple tracking and reporting platforms.
- Responsible for project scope set-up, roll-out of prioritized projects, executing against timelines and tracking expenses against budget.
- Work with staff to build, manage and outline project objectives, setting performance requirements, and selecting project participants.
- Ensure daily project calls are covered, travel to regional/national locations as needed and cover on-site start up support.
- Perform a key role in managing vendor relations by ensuring appropriate planning, budgeting, and expense tracking is in place.
- Support tasks for operations which include: new facility set-up, new customer onboarding, continuous improvement initiatives, MHE evaluation and procurement, safety, tenant improvement initiatives, capital expenditure process, proforma support and inventory control strategies.
- Must be able to carry out optimum utilization of resources- labor, materials and equipment.
- Responsible for clearly communicating and coordinating with the operation team(s), contractors, vendors and other key stakeholders.
- Responsible for creating an atmosphere that promotes employee involvement while communicating regularly with all employees keeping them abreast of our Company values and goals.
Demonstrate to comply with Custom Goods’ Core Behavior:
- Servant Leadership
- Passion for Excellence
- Integrity
- Resilient
- Intense Safety Focus
- Trust
Required Education and Experience
- Preferred but not required to have a bachelor’s degree
- Preferred PMP Trained and Certified
- Required logistics experience or similar of freight forwarding, 3PL, 4PL
- Preferred WMS Manhattan Scale or any WMS tool
- Must be able to demonstrate as a project lead on key projects with significant regional/global impact
- 3+ years' experience in project management running large-scale / multi-functional projects
- 3+ years' experience with Change management and Risk / Risk Mitigation
- Must be able to scope, set-up and roll-out prioritized projects as Project Manager
- Ability to react to changes in the project environment to ensure and to protect project profitability
- Travel on-site to start-up and lead implementation of projects. Will be required to travel
- Build and manage project teams & build and manage project plans.
- Experience running a full life cycle in projects
- Manage project resources and manage projects effectively to stakeholders
- Intermediate-Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Project Management Software Soft Skills
- Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Ability to influence with authority
AAP/EEO Statement: Custom Goods, LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, disability, sexual and gender orientation, genetic information or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.
This commitment extends to all aspects of Custom Goods’ employment practices including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.
Skills Required
- Logistics, freight forwarding, 3PL, 4PL, or similar industry experience
- At least 3 years of project management experience running large-scale or multifunctional projects
- At least 3 years of change management and risk mitigation experience
- Experience leading significant regional or global projects
- Ability to scope, set up, and roll out prioritized projects
- Ability to manage project teams, plans, resources, stakeholders, timelines, and budgets
- Full project life cycle management experience
- Ability to adapt to project changes and protect project profitability
- Willingness and ability to travel onsite for project startups and implementations
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management software
- Effective communication across all organizational levels
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and influence with authority
- Bachelor's degree
- PMP training and certification
- Experience with Manhattan Scale or another WMS tool
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The Company
What We Do
Custom Goods is a full-service logistics company with a refined focus on Warehousing, Transportation, and Custom Examination Sites, with over 30 warehouses nationally. We are uniquely positioned to offer comprehensive logistics solutions with a personal touch. We serve our customers one shipment at a time by challenging ourselves to be the benchmark service provider of customized supply chain solutions with our strategic anchors: Data-Driven, Personal Touch, and Timely Customer Solutions. Our core values underpin us as individuals, and as a company, we place people at the center of all we do. We have established over 60 years of rich experience and deep relationships following these values. As a number one strategic partner, our customers benefit from our unrivaled dedication to customer excellence.
