Senior Project Manager, Global Operations - Operations Portfolio Management Office

Role overview

Project delivery and governance

• Leads projects from charter through implementation and closure; develops business cases, charters, schedules, budgets, risk assessments, and governance plans.
• Manages scope, milestones, interdependencies, decisions, resources, stakeholder expectations, and critical issue escalations.
• Ensures transfers meet qualification plans, required approvals, first-article results, and customer-notification requirements before shipment from a new location.
• Tracks irreversible commitments and verifies evidence is in place before commitment dates; plans contingencies to maintain supply continuity.
• Coordinates functions including Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, Legal, Tax, IT, HR, Compliance, Commercial, and site leadership.
• Establishes ownership, decision rights, workstreams, and escalation paths; aligns functional leaders, subject-matter experts, and executive sponsors.
• Manages external consultants and service providers when required.
• Identifies legal, regulatory, tax, customs, financial, and operational risks; coordinates reviews, mitigations, contingency plans, readiness criteria, and documented approvals.
• Follows portfolio-office intake, prioritization, governance, and reporting standards; supports portfolio reviews, maintains records, and contributes templates and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Seven or more years of project or program management experience.
• Experience coordinating equipment moves, process validation, and qualification activity across sites.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional operational or business-transformation projects.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing, supply chain, operations, and business processes.
• Connects project decisions to business priorities, risk, and value; demonstrates commercial, financial, operational, and regulatory business acumen.
• Influences stakeholders across functions without direct authority.
• Strong project governance, risk management, change leadership, and executive-level communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• PMP or comparable project-management certification.
• Experience partnering with Trade Compliance, Legal, Tax, or Finance on operational execution.
• Experience in a global manufacturing organization.
• Experience with customer qualification or approval processes in a regulated or contract-sensitive environment.

Success factors

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