Strategic Initiatives - Project ManagerDrive Strategic Initiatives That Impact the Entire Business
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex challenges, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and making a meaningful impact without having direct people management responsibilities.
What You'll Do
As a Project Manager, you'll serve as the central point of coordination for cross-functional projects and business initiatives, ensuring teams stay aligned and focused on successful outcomes.
Project Leadership & Execution
- Lead and coordinate projects from planning through completion
- Develop project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, and success measures
- Manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and resources across multiple workstreams
- Monitor progress and proactively address obstacles that could impact delivery
- Partner with business leaders to drive project execution and accountability
Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
- Facilitate project meetings, governance reviews, and executive updates
- Build strong partnerships across departments and levels of the organization
- Communicate project status, key decisions, and risks to stakeholders and leadership
- Influence outcomes and drive alignment without direct authority
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain project dashboards, reports, action logs, and project documentation
- Track project performance and support data-driven decision-making
- Help improve project management tools, standards, and best practices
- Support portfolio tracking, governance activities, and change management efforts
What We're Looking ForRequired Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in project management, project coordination, PMO, program support, or a related field
- Experience supporting or leading cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive accountability
- Experience creating project plans, reports, dashboards, and documentation
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within a PMO, Transformation Office, Strategic Finance, or similar environment
- Experience using Smartsheet for project planning, reporting, and dashboards
- Knowledge of change management, portfolio management, or continuous improvement methodologies
- PMP, CAPM, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certifications
Education
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Technology, or a related field preferred.
Why Join Wayne-Sanderson Farms?
- High-Impact Work – Support strategic initiatives that influence the entire organization.
- Enterprise-Wide Exposure – Collaborate with leaders and teams across multiple business functions
- Career Growth – Gain visibility into strategic projects and business operations while expanding your project management expertise.
- Collaborative Environment – Work alongside high-performing teams committed to achieving results.
Ready to Make an Impact?
If you're a detail-oriented project professional who enjoys bringing structure to complexity and helping teams achieve ambitious goals, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in project management, project coordination, PMO, program support, or a related field
- Experience supporting or leading cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and drive accountability
- Experience creating project plans, reports, dashboards, and documentation
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
- Experience working within a PMO, Transformation Office, Strategic Finance, or similar environment
- Experience using Smartsheet for project planning, reporting, and dashboards
- Knowledge of change management, portfolio management, or continuous improvement methodologies
- PMP, CAPM, Lean Six Sigma, or similar certification
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Technology, or a related field
Wayne-Sanderson Farms Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wayne-Sanderson Farms and has not been reviewed or approved by Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is often characterized as fair or competitive for the local area, especially for entry-level plant roles. Overtime opportunities and shift premiums can materially improve take-home pay where available.
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits are frequently described as affordable, with health and dental coverage viewed as a relative strength of the overall package. The breadth of options is often positioned as a meaningful offset to the baseline wage for many roles.
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Retirement Support — The retirement program is positioned as a standout feature, with automatic enrollment and a dollar-for-dollar match on the first 4% of pay. External recognition of the plan’s design reinforces perceptions of a strong retirement offering.
Wayne-Sanderson Farms Insights
What We Do
Wayne-Sanderson Farms is an industry leader and the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, serving customers, consumers and communities with integrity, leadership and responsible farm, workplace and business practices. With a diverse portfolio of products, a strong operating culture and an industry-leading workforce of more than 26,000 people, Wayne-Sanderson Farms owns and operates 23 fresh and further-processing facilities across Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas. Wayne-Sanderson Farms produces affordable, high-quality poultry products for retail, foodservice, restaurant, industrial and institutional segments under the brand names of WAYNE FARMS® fresh and prepared chicken; SANDERSON FARMS® fresh chicken; COVINGTON FARMS® fresh and frozen chicken; PLATINUM HARVEST® premium fresh chicken; CHEF’S CRAFT® gourmet chicken; and NAKED TRUTH® premium chicken. For more information. visit our website at http://www.waynesandersonfarms.com
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