Junior Project Manager - Technology Change Delivery

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Job Details
As part of Cencora, World Courier is a Global Specialty Logistics Company that designs world-class supply chain programs in complete alignment with customers' business goals. The company delivers ultimate peace of mind for the transport and storage of time- and temperature-sensitive products. For more than 50 years, World Courier has delivered unsurpassed knowledge, global reach and flawless supply chain execution needed to become the most trusted specialty logistics company in the world.
We're re-imagining IT - not as a support function, but as a strategic partner for the World Courier business. We exist to help the organization rise, adapt, and grow, using technology that is innovative, integrated, reliable, secure, and designed around real operational needs.
Why this role matters
Technology change gets hard when multiple systems, teams, and dependencies need to move together. Even well-defined initiatives can quickly become complex as risks, constraints, and competing priorities emerge.
As a Junior Project Manager, this role exists to bring focus, structure, and disciplined execution to assigned World Courier initiatives, while building delivery capability.
You'll be accountable for delivering three to four, small to medium initiatives, business-requested enhancements, and IT backlog items, ensuring they land on time, on budget, and with the intended outcomes.
What you'll do
Delivering successful outcomes

• Responsible for delivery across time, cost, scope, and quality for assigned initiatives.
• Own and maintain delivery plans, milestones, and forecasts.
• Ensure appropriate planning for development, testing, and release.
• In collaboration with the VMO, ensure adoption plan can successfully support technology.
• Provide clear status reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Managing scope, dependencies, risks, and finances
• Actively manage scope, dependencies, and cross-team impacts.
• Identify and mitigate risks and issues early.
• Surface delivery trade-offs clearly to support decision-making.
• Manage initiative-level budgets and forecasts.
• Working in alignment with portfolio delivery
• Deliver initiatives in line with portfolio standards and governance.
• Collaborate with the VMO and delivery community.
• Support dependency management across the broader portfolio.
• Contribute to accurate resource planning and capacity management.
• Collect and maintain resource demand and capacity data from IT stakeholders and managers to support resource forecasting.
• Support delivery of business-requested enhancements and approved IT backlog items.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches where appropriate.

What we're looking for
You'll thrive in our team if you:

• Take ownership and accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Focus on delivering for our customers.
• Are comfortable operating in complex, multi-system environments.
• Can clearly and confidently communicate with global stakeholders.
• Are hungry to grow and learn

Experience that will help you succeed

• 2+ years delivering technology initiatives.
• Familiarity with delivery and reporting tools such as ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps (ADO), or JIRA.Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum.
• Experience in risk and issue management.
• Experience guiding delivery teams through project estimation and delivery timelines, and maintaining those estimates as conditions change..
• Experience managing small to medium initiatives, enhancements, or defined workstreams.
• Experience in dependency management, testing coordination, and release planning.

What success looks like in this role

• Initiatives consistently deliver against agreed outcomes.
• Stakeholders trust delivery plans, progress, and communication.
• Risks and issues are identified early and managed proactively.
• Delivery remains structured and calm, even when complexity increases.

How you'll be working

• Operate in a global, matrixed IT organization.
• Collaborate across regions and time zones.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements

What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation
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