Senior IT Project Manager

KBX Logistics, a Koch company and global leader in transportation, offers world-class, technology-driven capabilities across all modes of managed freight and transportation asset management. KBX is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges shippers face, leveraging decades of firsthand experience and data-driven insights from a large, diverse, and global business network.

About the role

This role is responsible for aligning stakeholders, managing risk, influencing decisions, and ensuring successful delivery of projects that create long-term value for the organization. You will serve as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, bring structure to ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and guide teams through complex decisions. Success in this role requires strong leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority while balancing competing priorities and organizational objectives.

Our Team

This role is part of a centralized team responsible for enabling the successful delivery of strategic initiatives across KBX. The team partners closely with leaders throughout the organization to prioritize investments, align resources, and execute projects that improve business performance, scalability, and customer value. As a key contributor, you will collaborate across functions and levels of the organization, helping teams navigate change, remove barriers, and deliver measurable business results.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional projects and initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment to business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Establish project governance, execution strategies, and stakeholder alignment to achieve successful outcomes.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to define scope, priorities, success measures, and expected value.
• Develop and manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Facilitate decision-making by identifying trade-offs, evaluating risks, and providing recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
• Influence and align cross-functional teams, vendors, and business partners to drive execution and accountability.
• Anticipate obstacles, proactly remove roadblocks, and navigate competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Communicate project health, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance project delivery practices, team effectiveness, and business outcomes.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, ownership, and value creation across project teams.

Requirements

• Experience leading projects and initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, teams, and business functions
• Experience influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across groups
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and deliverables
• Experience communicating project strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders
• Experience leading initiatives through ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving business requirements
• Experience applying various project management frameworks, methodologies, and tools to achieve business outcomes
• Experience learning a new business, technical, or operational topic within a short timeframe
• Experience developing communications for multiple stakeholder groups requiring different messaging approaches
• Experience translating technical concepts or project impacts into communications that enable stakeholder understanding and decision-making

Qualifications

The following experience will put you ahead:

• Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives or programs
• Experience partnering directly with senior leaders to prioritize work, resolve issues, and drive strategic outcomes
• Experience supporting business transformation, process improvement, integration, or merger and acquisition initiatives
• Experience managing external vendors, consultants, or strategic partners
• Experience influencing project governance, portfolio planning, or resource prioritization decisions
• Experience within transportation, logistics, supply chain, or technology-focused environments
• Experience identifying and implementing opportunities that improve organizational effectiveness and scalability

Pay

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, ADD, disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation/time off
• Educational assistance
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance (eligibility criteria apply)

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.