Project Manager

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Project Manager - Procurement to join our team specializing in Purchasing for our Troy, MI location.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Championing Inclusion and Diversity: You'll foster a culture that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds, helping the team make more innovative and inclusive decisions.
• Tailoring Communication for Impact: By adapting your communication style to suit different audiences, you'll ensure clarity, alignment, and engagement across stakeholders.
• Enhancing Customer Relationships: Your customer-centric approach will strengthen partnerships and ensure that solutions are aligned with client needs and expectations.
• Simplifying Complexity: You'll break down complex, high-volume, or conflicting information into actionable insights, enabling smarter and faster decision-making.
• Resolving Conflicts Constructively: By addressing disagreements with empathy and minimal disruption, you'll maintain team cohesion and forward momentum.
• Driving Strategic Execution: Through effective planning and prioritization, you'll align project activities with organizational goals, ensuring timely and goal-oriented delivery.
• Maximizing Resources Efficiently: Your resourcefulness will ensure optimal use of time, budget, and talent, even in dynamic or constrained environments.
• Mitigating Risks and Managing Scope: You'll proactively identify and manage project risks, schedules, and scope, ensuring successful delivery with minimal surprises.

• Foundational Project Management Knowledge: Understand basic project management principles, tools, and terminology to support planning, execution, and tracking.
• Strong Organizational Skills: Keep detailed records, maintain project documentation, and manage timelines and deliverables efficiently.
• Effective Communication: Clearly share project updates, risks, and needs with team members and stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Identify issues early, collaborate with others to resolve them, and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Analytical Thinking: Support research and data analysis to inform decisions, track budgets, and assess project performance.
• Risk Awareness: Use quality tools to identify and help manage project risks, contributing to more predictable outcomes.
• Collaboration and Team Learning: Share insights and lessons learned with other teams and draw from past experiences to improve project success.
• Adaptability and Initiative: Be proactive in supporting project needs, adjusting to changes, and stepping in where needed to keep things moving.

• Experience: Minimum 3-years' experience in project coordination/management.
• Hybrid position with the expectation of 3 days in the Troy office and 2 working from home.
• Relocation is not available for this position.
• Manage several cost reduction initiatives at existing or new suppliers to meet business objectives.
• Concisely communicates to the project team all project deliverables, immediate activities they must support, and why they must support them.
• Eagerly pursues execution excellence utilizing standardized project management tools and compliance to Purchasing processes and policies.