Sr, Manager, Project Management – Facilities

Role

The Sr. Manager, Project Management is responsible for successful project management, implementation and execution of Facilities pilots and large, multi-year roll-out projects supporting Facility Reliability, Energy and Environmental Teams and other functional teams leading efforts associated with Facilities and Fuel. This role partners with the Concept Development Team creating the pilot project charter and effectively identifying and managing all aspects of the project life cycle. The Sr. Manager, Project Management clearly understands the innovation purpose creating a highly collaborative environment with Category Team(s), Marketing, Operations, Concept, Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Operations Support, Training, Product Suppliers, Equipment Manufacturers and local BU resources. This role must facilitate with a high degree of collaboration and communication.  Ultimately, this role brings all subject matter experts together for successful project execution. This role seeks BU feedback and communicates to the NA Facility Reliability Team and other functional teams, for continuous improvement on processes, procedures and concept development. This role creates and leads the Faciities Team project prioritization process ensuring the highest and best use of time, for all team members, are considered to establish project priorities.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• •Actively participate to create new offers and partner with BU to pilot new ideas, offers and innovations for future category and company growth
• •Lead large scale roll-outs that touch multiple BUs and multiple cross-functional team members. Set timelines, accountabilities and clear communication with all project team members. This role leads complicated, large scale projects with multiple milestones and deliverables
• •Create and track short-term and long-term project enhancements / learnings. Set strategy and assign team actions across multiple functions until completion
• •Create project prioritization process in collaboration with Facility Reliability, Concept Development, Energy and Environmental teams. Lead established process to ensure project teams members are spending their time on projects that support our Win in Food Strategy. Collaborate with and share best practices with Europe Concept and NDO Team.
• •Collaborate with our BU’s identifying gaps and learnings. Document action items, coordinate solutions, set timing and communication process with Foodservice team members until complete
• •Partner with Category Teams and Innovation Team to define pilot purpose, pilot KPI’s, BU selection for pilot and store selections. Write scope of work ensuring a clear and complete project understanding.
• •Accountable for structured project management for all Pilot activity with agreed upon decision gates at appropriate times, secure understanding and buy-in ensuring effective implementation with high success rates
• •Create and manage Gantt chart capturing all project steps, tasks and assigned deliverables
• •Create and maintain pilot project budget collaborating with local BU resources and category teams. Ensure store specific scope of work is clearly defined and understood by all project team members.
• •Partner with Financial Analyst and Category team in creating on obtaining AFE approval
• •Collaborate with BU Facility / Construction resources to order equipment, manage on site construction and coordination of all on-site activities.
• •Lead all pilot project team coordination calls. Lead all roll-out team coordination calls.
• •Report project progress and effectively document and implement all learnings. Create alignment with all project team members
• •Participate as part of global category team to contribute to research, development, testing, roll out and planning activities
• •Work with local Concept / Facilities resources to design and coordinate all store specific activities
• •Ensure global concept framework standards and guidelines are clear and followed
• •Analyze effectiveness and performance of new concepts, provide reporting and offer input for improvement