Description
Position at Attindas - US
Attindas Hygiene Partners
designs, manufactures, and markets absorbent hygiene products. The company sells adult incontinence and infant diapers, among other products, into the healthcare, retail, and direct-to-consumer channels under brands including Attends, Indas, and Comfees as well as a wide range of private label brands for retailers.
Mission:
We champion health, dignity and comfort.
Vision:
To be a global leader in absorbent hygiene by meeting consumers' diverse needs through effective, affordable and widely available personal care solutions.
Our Values:
Personal, Agile, Innovative, and Integrity
This can be located at any of our Office locations US
Job Summary:
The PMO Project Manager role leads formal cross-functional teams on several key medium- to large- sized projects to drive them through the Attindas Project Management process (Unitas). This is a key role that enables achievement of over-arching corporate business objectives by ensuring projects deliver against aligned outcomes on-time, on-scope, and on-budget. Projects assigned to the PMO Project Manager will span the entirety of business activities within Attindas, and can include innovations, capital equipment installs, brand relaunches/restages, major commercial bid endeavors, and cost savings programs, among others, across the global Attindas business. The role also supports the Associate Director, PMO in efforts to assess, train, and support the large group of embedded functional Project Managers that lead smaller, day-to-day projects within the Attindas Hybrid Project Management philosophy.
Project Management
- Lead teams as they drive projects through the Unitas Project Management process
Support PMO lead
- Support PMO Lead to develop and enforce and promote PMO standards, processes (UNITAS), tools (Smartsheet) , and best practices to improve project efficiency and effectiveness.
Support embedded Hybrid Project Managers
- Serve as an informal, ad hoc resource to help non-PMO project managers effectively drive their initiatives
Key responsibilities:
- Serve as PM on 6 to 8 projects of varying scope and complexity
- Deliver PM fundamentals for all assigned projects, including but not limited to:
- Leading weekly project team meetings
- Maintaining project timelines and ensuring project critical path milestones are achieved
- Ensuring all key project tasks are delivered to satisfy aligned project success criteria
- Assessing and communicating project status and health to team members, Sponsor, and key Stakeholders
- Ensuring all project data and tools are accurately inputted and tracked within Smartsheet PM software tool
- Updating key KPI trackers for monthly and quarterly Category Management forums
- Develop, maintain, and communicate key business performance indicators (KPIs) for assigned projects throughout their lifecycle
- Support PMO Lead to Develop the function in Attindas and enhance Project Management capabilities broadly within the organization
- Foster a culture of excellence, accountability, transparency, and collaboration to ensure consistent and successful project management practices within the organization.
- Support PMO lead in continuous improvement of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques, incorporating industry best practices and internal lessons learned
- Support PMO lead in creation and roll-out of internal PM certification program and annual training calendar to up-skill cross-functional project managers
- Support Hybrid Embedded Project Managers
- Provide ad hoc one-on-one mentoring to colleagues on PM fundamentals
- Support on-boarding of new employees to Unitas and Smartsheet processes and tools
- Serve as a visible role model for how project management should be delivered
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in project management, business, engineering, computer science or a related field
- PMO Certification from an accredited program, such as PMI-PMOCP, CA-PMO, IPMA PMO, or equivalent (or working towards currently)
- 3+ yrs prior experience in Project Management across a variety of project domains
- Experience working within stage-gate processes
- Direct experience with robust PM tools (Smartsheet, Jira, or equivalent)
Preferred Qualifications/Professional Experiences/Years of Experience:
- Prior experience working within a Supportive PMO structure
- Prior career experience in a consumer-packaged goods and/or consumable healthcare business a plus
- Experience in absorbent hygiene categories a plus
- Experience working in a global organization across time zones, cultures, and functions a plus
Attindas is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, color, sex (including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), marital status, religion, national origin, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.