Project Management Director

Description

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As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. 

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis US Yogurt, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Project Management Director based in Londonderry, NH. 

The Project Management Director will lead the build out and management of the Project Management and Master Data teams, including the development of Project Management and Master Data tools, systems, training programs, metric development, and reporting. The role will lead and coach direct reports to ensure the efficient and effective planning and execution of innovation, renovation, sourcing, and value engineering projects across the US Yogurt business and will own responsibility for the integrity of master data to support all commercial and operation systems including SAP and other integrated solutions. Additionally, the Project Management Director will collaborate with a cross-functional leadership team to align duties with the company's goals and values. This role will report to the Senior Director, Supply Chain.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Lead the portfolio of projects at a strategic level, producing accurate and timely reporting of Program / Project Portfolio status throughout program life cycle.
• Drive the development and delivery of the Project Management projects of the division and the related adoption of tools and best practices for efficient, rapid, and predictable project execution.
• Lead and direct disciplined governance and planning processes, executing the stage-gate process across the division for innovation, renovation, sourcing, and value engineering projects. 
• Lead senior leadership project update meetings supporting functions in providing materials and data in a standardized manner.  
• Establish and track Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), including status/health of the portfolio, providing visibility and insight to executive stakeholders. 
• Drive strong focus on improving business case integrity and priorities, identifying and implementing improvements in the development processes and tools based on lessons learned.
• Lead team responsible for creation and maintenance of customer, vendor, material, and operational master data to support SAP and integrated systems to best support business functions and results for all US Yogurt departments and facilities.
• Manage, understand, and coordinate Master Data requirements between US business entities as necessary for standardization of processes and system.
• Leverage the performance and talent process to develop leadership skills and capabilities of direct reports.  
• Hire, train, mentor, and lead staff of high performing team, regularly providing feedback on performance. 
• Act as liaison to foster a culture of collaboration