Director, Strategic Projects

Responsibilities

• Manages the North America (NA) Capital Budget and portfolio of capital projects.
• Works with GMs at 7 sites to develop business cases for capital projects.
• Serves as SME for capital business case development and approval processing.
• Ledds and provides project management for large capital investment projects.
• Leads a diverse portfolio of strategic projects to help drive both top and bottom-line growth for the business.
• Serves as the NA subject matter expert for WAVE and assists General Managers and their teams with project ideation and shop level growth strategies.
• Provides training and technical assistance with WAVE as needed.
• Plans and leads bi-annual offsites for the NA leadership team with sessions focused on value creation and strategic growth of the business.
• Conducts complex scenario planning to proactively provide analysis, make process improvement recommends on alternative development plans.
• Effectively summarizes key information such as program progress, timeline updates, risk opportunity assessments and SOPs.

Qualifications

• BS or BA degree in project management, business administration or related discipline.
• Master’s degree related field or MBA preferred.
• 7+ years of project management experience including experience in cross-functional execution including medium to large-scale projects.
• Critical thought partner and proven ability to connect people and ideas to drive outcomes.
• Ability to connect, interact and influence teams across the sites to drive change management and execute projects.
• Self-motivated; acts independently and prioritizes appropriately; embraces unexpected changes or challenges and drives to improved solutions.
• Contributes to best practices sharing and CI to support the operations and the success and evolution of the business.
• Able to manage multiple priorities/projects at a given time, ensuring deadlines, budgets and status updates.
• Developed communication skills and the ability to synthesize data and information into meaningful insights.
• Very detail oriented and strong project/operation management skills.
• Ability to handle ambiguity.