Supply Chain Project Manager

Reliance Worldwide Corporation

Position: Supply Chain Project Manager

Reports to: Director of Supply Chain

Status: Exempt

Plumbing Matters. We make it better.

RWC is a market leader and manufacturer of water solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. RWC's portfolio of brands includes industry-leading brands: SharkBite Push-to-Connect plumbing solutions; HoldRite engineered plumbing and mechanical solutions; Cash Acme control valves and John Guest fittings and fluid dispense products; EZ-FLO and Eastman appliance connectors, supply lines, stop valves and gas connectors.

Position Summary

The Supply Chain Project Manager is responsible for executing and managing a portfolio of complex projects related to supply chain execution, product life cycle, and inventory optimization. This individual will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure project completion, adhere to timeline and scope requirements, and successfully execute programs while communicating regularly to internal and external stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role that will work cross functionally with executive leadership, Operations, Fulfilment, Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing and Planning. Projects will include new product developments, customer launches, store expansions, promos, inventory optimization, product exit strategies and more.

Principal Responsibilities

• Defines, plans, and coordinates work teams including coordinating the activities of cross- functional teams by leading through influence to ensure project timelines are met.

• Lead, manage and analyze supply chain and inventory projects from initiation to completion, ensuring timely delivery of project objectives, inventory levels, lead times, supplier performance, etc.
• Leads collaborative project review meetings to highlight significant updates, assessing risks and risk mitigation plans while providing project status to key stakeholders.

• Mobilizes and motivates effective project teams; communicating effectively across teams and groups; reprioritizing as necessary to address changes in the business and/or shifting needs.
• Manages projects through to completion ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining overall project ownership to assigned projects.
• Develops timelines, and ensures progress to plan, as well as tracks and communicates critical project achievements and/or risks.
• Works with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and lead projects or activities as well as develop baseline financial metrics to document savings of identified projects / initiatives.
• Acts as a primary point of contact for designated projects facilitating project update meetings, and written communication and reports to inform stakeholders of progress.
• Uses designate process mapping, tracking and assigned tools for project life cycle management to meet business needs.
• Ensures time and resources align with business priorities and objectives and escalates project risks to manager as appropriate.
• Addresses problems through risk mitigation and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to leaders and other key stakeholders, ensuring effective implementation of solutions/changes.
• Deliver results for each project through leadership and partnership with cross-functional teams and by working directly with various stakeholders across the Company.
• Drives process improvement, and adherence to company project standards for assigned projects.
• Build and maintain good relationships with all business customers, colleagues, vendors/partners and consultants.
• Recommend strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes, identifying problems, evaluating trends and anticipating requirements.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings necessary to coordinate and manage projects and other related business requirements.
• Build constructive business relationships with all stakeholders, including 3rd party vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or equivalent experience
• 2-4 years' experience in Project Management leadership
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred.
• Must be proficient in MS Office products including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Power BI, Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail
• Experience with Innovation projects, product commercialization, stage gate methodology and business execution projects.
• Project management experience with Procurement, Production, Supply Planning and Scheduling
• Effectively communicate and influence positive results.
• Experience documenting/designing business processes, performing business analysis, and requirements definition.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills with the ability to manage a high volume of projects simultaneously.
• Ability to project manage and work on multiple assignments concurrently.

Competencies

• Strong data collection and analytical skills. Firm understanding of technical concepts, data flow architecture and the ability to communicate technical concepts. High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Excel (Lookups, Pivot tables, etc.). SAP advanced user/ implementation experience preferred.
• Excellent organizational skills: Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects and related tasks; Ability to identify and structure complex problems, rapidly prioritize issues and solution development, plan and conduct complex work, process information quickly, and place information into an intuitive context or framework.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills: Deliver clear and concise written and verbal messages in a structured manner, manage differing points of view, tailor communications/ style to audience, and craft presentations with quality expected for senior level executives.
• Utilize project management tools: build and maintain project schedules using tools such as Microsoft Project.
• Ability to work in a high growth, matrixed organization.

Working Conditions

This position will be an in-office, manufacturing, and warehouse environment with occasional project-based travel required.

Physical Demands

Job requires both sitting and standing. Excellent vision, hearing, speech, and
motor skills are required to perform essential functions of the job.

Benefits Include

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Stock Share Plan
• 100% paid 10-week maternity leave
• 100% paid 2-week paternity leave