Senior Project Specialist

The Senior project Specialist will lead and actively deliver a portfolio of supply chain projects that critical to meeting 1-3 year objectives. The role aligns best practices across supply chain to ensure consistency and efficiencies across departments. The Senior Project Specialist leads a project group that is typically cross functional in nature They also coach Associate & Intermediate SCI project team members. 

Support Supply Chain Strategic Portfolio:

• Leads, plans, develops, and executes supply chain initiatives.
• Discovers and standardizes best practices across the supply chain.
• Apply project management best practices to supply chain initiatives/projects.
• Lead diverse array of projects impacting the end-to-end supply chain. 

Stakeholder Management:

• Develop and grow relationships across the organization to enable project planning and execution. 
• Work closely with leaders and stakeholders to develop and implement strategic plans.
• Actively seek and action feedback and roadblocks throughout project lifecycle. 

Lead Change:

• Apply change management practices to ensure overall adoption of initiatives and newly implemented practices. 

Document and Update Supply Chain Documents: 

• Contribute to updates of supply chain policies, processes, work instructions and standardize across programs (where applicable)
• Completed post-secondary education in relevant field of study (eg. Engineering or business)
• 5+ Years project management experience in industrial, mechanical, manufacturing or shipbuilding environment. 
• Green Belt, Black Belt or PMP considered an asset
• Procurement / Supply Chain accreditation: SCMP, MCIPS or ISM would be considered an asset
• Experience managing multiple initiatives at once