Sr Project Manager

Company Background:

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia. We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 60,000 teammates. 

Position Purpose:

Seeking a world-class Sr. Project Manager to join our Supply Chain Technology team. Specifically, this role will report to the Director, Supply Chain Programs. The Sr. Project Manager is an individual who is excited about driving teams, solving problems and delivering valuable projects in a startup-like environment inside a growing, century-old company.

As a key leader, they will partner with engineering and product leadership in driving strategic planning and execution activities to define and deliver multiple concurrent, high-value initiatives to successful outcomes. This position also requires an establishment and maintenance of a maniacal focus on financial execution of the assigned business-critical initiatives.

Job Description / Responsibilities

• Plan and Execute Initiatives: Create the plan, document the milestones, align on what activities are being performed and create the schedule. Facilitate any issues and gaps.
• Communicate status: Share the baseline plan, updates to the plan, and any issues, risks or activities that are required to make the project a success.
• Manage issues / risks: Build a register of open issues and risks. Maintain accountable aligned individuals' actions to solve the issue, or to mitigate the risk.
• Remove roadblocks for the team: Setup and pull together the right people to help navigate any roadblocks for the team.
• Enable teams to be productive: Educate teams on why. Help explain and enable agile ceremonies. Assist teams with being successful in standups, retros, grooming and prioritization. Support cross-org alignment.
• Drive accuracy in financials (variance to forecast) for the Portfolio: Drive financial accuracy for the team, from forecasting the spend, capturing the actuals, and comparing actuals to forecast to hit <5% variance end of year.
• Drive contracts, purchase orders, and invoices for the Portfolio.
• Other duties as assigned
  

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Atlanta or Duluth office.
• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related discipline with an information technology focus or equivalent experience
• 5 (7+ preferred) years’ experience in Project Management
• Experience managing Supply Chain projects is preferred
• Experience working in an Agile methodology and collaborating with teams in a globally distributed engagement model
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing and explaining technical and project-related information to internal technology partners, vendors, senior management, and staff
• Proven experience in a large enterprise environment with multiple development teams
• Retail experience across disciplines of technology, program management, user experience, change management and quality engineering will be preferred
• Experience managing diverse teams in multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with third party development and infrastructure suppliers.
• Experience with PPM tools such as Clarity is a plus

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