Mars Incorporated
Sr. Project Manager - Franklin, TN (Finance)
What would your key responsibilities be?
Principal Accountabilities
ASSOCIATE
• Develop personal leadership and managerial skills to continuously improve the effectiveness of the technical function
• Foster the functional and effectiveness competence development of self and team members
• Drive for Excellence in Execution
• Stay current in the most state of the art functional tools and methodologies
BUSINESS
• Support Sites with Technical capabilities as assigned.
• Ensure delivery of scope, time, budget, and cash flow for all projects
• Develop projects that are technically feasible to meet business and segment plans
• Promote and follow the established ways of working
• Communicate and collaborate with all Stakeholders and other functions to ensure all project objectives are clearly defined and achieved.
• Lead team members to gain and a sustain a technical competitive advantage
• Drive initiatives that shorten new product and project cycle times to deliver first to market
• Drive initiatives that improve implementation efficiencies as well as operational efficiencies
• Drive lean ways of working in the engineering process and as a project deliverable
• Drive decisions to improve business measurements such as ROTA, FATR etc.
• Drive the project development process.
• Possess experience in 2-3 Functional Technologies (food, pet process, packaging, etc)
• Senior Project Managers are intended to manage higher value projects and develop their project team members. Typically, the value of these projects is over $50MM in value and/or have annual spend of $25MM. Alternately, lower value projects of higher complexity may also be assigned. Either of these project types require that the Senior Project Manager lead a cross functional team.
FUNCTIONAL
• Stay current with all applicable technology developments
• Provide project solutions with value added engineering and lean design
• Deliver projects that maximize asset utilization
• Support the development of technology platforms and innovation for providing a sustained technical advantage
• Drive to identify, protect and expand intellectual property of corporation.
• Drive, support and develop standards for equipment, systems and engineering processes or assigned functional area and collaborate with other senior engineers and global technical teams
• Develop external business relationships including construction contractors and engineering resources
• Proactively develop practices and methodologies that increase the effectiveness and reduces the costs of engineering
• Provide leadership and engineering knowledge required to plan and execute projects
• Drive adherence to Safety, Security and Environmental policies and standards
• Drive adherence to Global Quality & Food Safety policies and standards
• Drive adherence to Global Sustainability in a Generation (SIG) policies and standards
LEADERSHIP
• Support the adherence to the Five Principles
• Provide strategic and tactical leadership to project teams, direct reports and the sites
• Fostering and Sustaining a winning environment which promotes safety, trust and confidence
• Effectively represent central engineering function at the sites
• Manage project teams to meet project objectives as agreed by stakeholders before project execution
• Drive project teams to focus on safety, environmental, food safety, etc. on all projects.
• Lead cross-functional teamwork across multiple sites.
• Building high performance teams by Influencing/Coaching/Mentoring Project Team Members
• Develop team member talent that support excellence in execution and leadership
• Provide segment leadership for engineering projects with close collaboration with Industrial engineers, activity management lead and supply director.
What are we looking for?
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; an advanced degree in Engineering or MBA considered a plus
• 8+ years' experience in a comparable technical position - food, beverage, pharmaceutical or related industry preferable
Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced degree in Engineering or MBA
What can you expect from Mars?
• The opportunity to learn, develop and take charge of your own career.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package.
• To be respected and valued.
• The Five Principles at the center of every decision.