Senior Project Manager

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family-owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high-quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations. Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager  for our First Quality Home Care Products, LLC working remotely.  This position will lead complex projects for the Home Care Products business from end to end, and will be responsible for managing project ideation, timelines, and resources while fostering collaboration and ensuring strategic business objectives are met. This role ensures that all project activities are aligned to strategic objectives and are correctly prioritized, resourced and scheduled. In addition, this role ensures that projects are progressing in a coordinated manner and ultimately deliver the business value that justified the project execution. Ultimately, success in this role will lead to timely and effective decision making by providing visibility into all project activity and workstream ownership

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Own and lead the project management life-cycle from initial charter development and approvals through post-launch reviews, ensuring seamless delivery against objectives and that synergy is achieved throughout the project life-cycle.
• Lead cross-functional teams ensuring alignment on project scope, identify critical success factors, allocate resources effectively, and create detailed, actionable timelines.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to anticipate potential obstacles, proactively resolving issues and ensuring project resilience.
• Facilitate the identification and escalation of issues and risks to relevant stakeholders and senior leadership while minimizing disruption to the project.
• Act as the gatekeeper of the stage gate process leveraging data to ensure decisions are reached via analysis of robust data and documentation. 
• Manage intake of new projects and work requests, categorizing and prioritizing the portfolio of projects and/or requests
• Facilitate Business Case reviews and approvals between the project requester and senior leadership
• Continuously provide visibility into the status of all projects by developing and delivering dashboards that provide timely information into project status
• Ensure every project is analyzed to understand all the needed functions/disciplines that are required for successful execution of the project. Ensure that for each function/discipline the right leader is identified and engaged and that such leader acknowledges the project

The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of executive program/project management that require multiple functions and multiple disciplines concurrently
• Experience working in a consumer products manufacturing environment highly preferred
• PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification highly preferred. Change Management professional certification a plus
• Financial knowledge to ensure change efforts are aligned with the financial perspective of a project
• Extensive experience utilizing Microsoft Project and other project management tools
• Strong communication (written & oral), organizational and analytical skills to collect, organize and communicate extensive amounts of data into clear and concise executive level dashboards
• Excellent executive influencing skills to productively work with leaders at a variety of levels; highly skilled at summarizing large volumes of information and data into relevant and actionable plans
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and achieving results despite facing changes in course
• Excellent technical and presentation skills – MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Solid analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Superb follow-up skills with the ability to keep processes moving and holding colleagues accountable for their role in a project or initiative

Travel will be required to First Quality facilities for key meetings and project milestones.  Travel can range from 15-25%

What We Offer You

We believe that by continuously improving the quality of our benefits, we can help to raise the quality of life for our team members and their families. At First Quality you will receive:

• Competitive base salary and bonus opportunities
• Paid time off (three-week minimum)
• Medical, dental and vision starting day one
• 401(k) with employer match

• Paid Parental Leave

• Child and family care assistance (dependent care FSA with employer match up to $2500)
• Bundle of joy benefit (year's worth of free diapers to all team members with a new baby)

• Tuition Assistance

• Wellness program with savings of up to $4,000 per year on insurance premiums

• ...And More!

First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations.  As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.

First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.