Senior Project Manager

Joining King's Hawaiian makes you part of our `ohana (family). We are a family-owned business for over seventy years, respecting our roots while thinking about our future as we continue to grow and care for our customers and the communities we serve. Our `ohana members build an environment of inclusivity as they freely collaborate, pursue learning through curiosity, and explore innovation as critical thinkers. Beyond that, we are also passionate about supporting the long-term health and well-being of our employees and their families. If you're excited to rise with our team, come and join our `ohana!
The Sr. Project Manager will join the King's Hawaiian Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) to lead multi-functional projects within King's Hawaiians' Operations. The EPMO will deliver the company's key growth and expansion initiatives. As a member of this team, you will collaborate with stakeholders, and key partners to deliver these projects to defined scope, schedule, and budget.
Responsibilities:

• Lead successful project delivery within agreed upon scope, schedule, quality, budget, and resources.
• Function as main liaison between the EPMO, service providers, vendors and business partners.
• Plan and track project milestones, work breakdown structure, tasks, timelines, work progress, budget, changes, and allocation of internal and external resources.
• Perform risk assessment, response planning, creation of mitigation strategies, and partner concern of issues.
• Capture changes to the project scope, schedule, budget, and resources for input into processes.
• Run regular project status meetings to clearly prioritize tasks for teams, ensuring all project health metrics and key performance indicators are accurate and detailed.
• Communicate project information and build relationships with the EPMO, project partners, multi-functional departments, external agencies, and outside vendors using executive reports.
• Facilitate transition of completed projects to the business and run postmortems.
• Lead multiple concurrent projects of varying size, timing and scope.
• Work with the project sponsor to establish project charters by defining commercialization project objectives, scope, teams, budget & success metrics
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturing to develop detailed launch plans and critical path timelines
• Establish a project culture of partnership and collaboration with the various cross-functional teams
• Build relationships and engagement with stakeholders and external parties
• Understand and coordinate critical dependencies across functions to manage critical path timeline and risks.
• Account for required approvals of key components throughout the project lifecycle
• Plan and complete project meetings with clearly defined agenda and objectives, detailed notes, defined follow-ups and practical takeaways.
• Monitor project progress and hold teams accountable to key activities and timelines
• Anticipate potential risks and provide mitigation recommendations
• Rapidly identify project issues/delays that arise and work with teams to propose and implement resolutions
• Facilitate the decision-making process on all projects with functional teams and leadership
• Assist all departments on budget development
• Manage project budgets of various sizes including expense vs. capital >$50MM
• Provide insight into project progress against key turning points and communicate progress and results to leadership
• Support in the development of full-launch business cases to outline the justification and requirements for new projects, launches, installations, etc.
• Provide reinforcement and continual improvement of the King's Hawaiian's operations processes
• Assist in final project cost/PO reconciliation with individual department controllers
• Gain formal approval from stakeholders that the project has been successfully completed

Skills/Experience:

• Project Management Institute (PMI) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred with proficiency to employ traditional, agile and hybrid project management methodologies required

• Bachelor's Degree from a major accredited university required
• 5-8 years of project management experience in a manufacturing setting required with large scale project budgets >$50MM preferred
• Professional working proficiency in Microsoft Project with High Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint with knowledge of top project management tools within the industry
• Highly proficient in budget management including contracts, RFPs, bidding, cash flow analysis, financial forecasting, invoicing and purchase requisition creation & tracking

• Ability to lead while optimally driving large teams and building collaborative relationships
• Proficient oral, written and presentation capabilities adapted to communicate to executive, business, and engineering team audiences clearly and concisely
• Able to abide by EPMO methodology even when faced with strong opposition
• Ability to maintain composure in high stress situations and ability to communicate clearly at all levels, multitask and pivot in a fast-paced environment
• Skilled in time management, prioritization and delegation
• Adept at identifying and resolving project challenges in a timely and efficient manner

King's Hawaiian is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our ohana.