Project Manager - Kansas City, MO

About the role

Meyer Lab is seeking a results-driven Project Manager to lead execution on strategic initiatives and business transformation efforts that improve organizational performance, support organizational growth, and drive enterprise-wide changes. This role partners with cross-functional business leaders to deliver measurable business value through process improvement, technology enablement, organizational change, and effective project execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives, strategic priorities, budgets, and timelines.
• Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute initiatives that improve operational and sales performance, scalability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Establish and manage project governance, including project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, risk management, change control processes, and executive reporting.
• Lead cross-functional teams consisting of operations, go-to-market (GTM), finance, and technology business stakeholders, along with external partners, to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Identify process improvement opportunities by analyzing workflows, bottlenecks, and operational inefficiencies, and present recommendations to executive leadership that improve productivity, quality, and customer experience.
• Implement technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions that streamline operations, improve decision-making, and support business growth.
• Translate business requirements into actionable plans, functional specifications, SOPs, process documentation, and implementation playbooks.
• Partner with business leaders to lead change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption of new processes, technologies, and ways of working.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs and business outcomes to ensure initiatives deliver expected operational, financial, and strategic value.
• Lead acquisition integration initiatives, including integration playbook refinement and implementation, process alignment, systems integration, organizational readiness, and synergy realization while meeting established timelines.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects while executing the disciplined work of defining processes, implementing systems, and building the operational foundation required to transform and professionalize the organization.

Requirements

• Proven project management experience leading large-scale, cross-functional projects and business transformation initiatives within mid-market organizations.
• Proven success developing and executing project plans, budgets, resource strategies, timelines, and implementation roadmaps.
• Experience driving process improvement, operational excellence, and organizational effectiveness initiatives; Lean, Continuous Improvement, or similar methodology experience preferred.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and post-acquisition integrations, including integration playbook development and implementation, process harmonization, systems integration, organizational alignment, and synergy realization.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related field preferred.
• Project Management Professional certification preferred.

Skills

• Proven ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality, accountability, alignment with business objectives, and consistent delivery against established deadlines.
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and critical-thinking capabilities.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and influencing skills with the ability to build credibility across all organizational levels, navigate difficult conversations, and provide constructive feedback.
• Proven ability to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into practical solutions and documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and other project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet).
• Proven ability to lead change, drive accountability, and deliver measurable business results.

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading technology-enabled transformation efforts, including automation, systems optimization, and business process improvements.
• Experience within manufacturing, supply chain, or sales environments preferred, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Travel & Physical Requirements

• Travel will be required as business needs require (e.g., field ride days with the go-to-market team and acquisition site visits and integration work).
• Desk and computer work required.
• Lifting required up to 50 lbs.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• 401(k) with company match
• Fantastic company culture with a work hard, play hard mentality

Pay

Annual salary

About Meyer Lab

For over forty-seven years, Meyer Lab has continued to pour profits into Research and Development to custom blend chemicals to meet customers' unique needs. This innovative technology has fueled growth, and Meyer Lab is now one of the fastest-growing industrial chemical manufacturers in the nation. Meyer Lab is recognized among industrial, flexographic, food processing, transportation, and distribution center users as having value-added, premium products and systems.