Sr. Project Manager – Enterprise Applications & Systems

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose:

Serve as key project leader for the Coopersville brownfield expansion project as part of the Engineering Large Capital Projects team to lead design through implementation to ensure system and user readiness for all enterprise applications.

responsibilities:

• Build and maintain integrated enterprise applications implementation plan inclusive of critical path milestones, dependencies, budgets, resources, risks, and leadership needed to deliver clearly identified plan for all in scope production-critical applications
• Develop a thorough understanding of all production and supporting processes enabled by in-scope systems to ensure design meets operational requirements and is optimized with end users in mind, assist in troubleshooting, and communicate technical concept to the business
• Lead technical and business SMEs in gathering all requirements, developing functional design to ensure requirements are met, conducting unit and end-to-end testing, implementing solutions, and supporting hyper care activities
• Create and execute service agreements with external providers to confirm overall project objectives are accounted for contractually and manage vendor relationships to ensure successful service delivery
• Facilitate communication across individual workstreams to harmonize efforts, eliminate siloed design, and facilitate sharing of resources, providing prioritization of activities based on master plan of critical path for Day 1
• Leadership and governance of plan execution, ensuring engagement and stakeholder buy-in across Operations, Engineering, IT, and Finance providing updates and communication on workstream progress and challenges and serving as the escalation point
• Continuous tracking of progress to milestones, ensuring scope is met and mitigating risks and managing issues as they arise and documenting all lessons learned for continuous improvement
• Maintain comprehensive project system process and architecture documentation inclusive of inputs and outputs, communication methods, and manual and automated interventions updating as projects progress
• Accountable for delivery of all in scope systems to ensure they are delivered to scope, on time, and within budget, reporting status internally

 

skills/qualifications required:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, or engineering
• 7+ years of progressive project management experience delivering systems implementations (large scale ERP implementations preferred), business transformation, IT / OT and supply chain initiatives
• Familiarity with ERP design, end-to-end business process mapping and design, and ISA95 integration best practices; experience with Microsoft Dynamics (D365) preferred
• Overall leadership of augmented teams made up of internal staff, consulting partners and service providers and experience managing stakeholders at an executive level with effective reporting communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) and data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, or equivalent)
• Ability to handle ambiguity and work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment

 

working conditions and physical requirements:

• Factory floor as needed
• Off hours support as needed

 

food safety requirements:

• Notify supervision of any repairs or adjustments that are required that may affect product quality or food safety.
• Understand, observe, and comply with the handling and usage of the color-coded container policy while in the Production Areas.
• Perform all duties necessary to meet Company, Customer and/or Government requirements/standards as prioritized by the Company.
• Ability to initiate action to prevent the occurrence of nonconformities relating to Food Safety and the Quality of the product, processes, quality system, or safety system.
• Identify and recor