Project Manager

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 21,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position overview:

 

The purpose of the Project Manager role is to scope, plan and execute projects as approved by the management team.  
This includes reviewing and managing high-level deliverables within and across business units, performing project reviews and ensuring project management best practices take place for all engagements. Work closely with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective business solutions for Ball. Project Manager provides project oversight and quality reviews, coordination of deliverable sign-off, and project reporting. The position effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and understands the business context of the project and uses knowledge to make appropriate decisions
 

Key responsibilities include:

 

•    Create project plans based on business case, timelines, dependencies, financial factors and resources and ensure on-time, on budget, on scope execution

•    Understand the roles and responsibilities of personnel within the escalation process and the specific responsibilities of the PM in facilitating the overall resource management process

•    Provide project oversight and quality reviews, coordination of deliverable sign-off, and project reporting

•    Effectively communicate program expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

•    Formulate and manage the process for prioritizing and sequencing project activities to support successful execution while managing project risks, dependencies, and constraints

•    Understand delivery methods (e.g. waterfall, agile) and can to select, modify/align that method with the needs of the project

•    Manage the project change process and determine the impact of project changes on the business case, and re-forecast value creation

•    Provide oversight of supplier PMs responsible for program/project management and delivery

•    Contribute to the development and improvement of project management structures and disciplines across Ball

•    Drive cost and lean process efficiencies within projects delivered
 

Experience and skills required:

 

•   Bachelor’s degree in business administration or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience

•   3+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of project development and execution

•   Project Management Certifications are highly desirable (PMP, CSM, Lean Six Sigma) 

•   Work experience in a global, cross-functional environment

•   Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies

•   Fluent in English language 

 

 

 

 

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

 

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 21,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

 

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

 

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.

 

No agencies please.