Sand Cherry Associates is a consulting firm that specializes in customer-centric initiatives through data-empowered solutions. The Project Manager will lead cross-functional initiatives focusing on project and change management strategies, developing project plans, communication materials, and training to ensure successful adoption and readiness in the environmental and industrial services industry.
Responsibilities:
- Lead project management activities, including planning, execution, dependency management, risk mitigation, and status reporting
- Provide strategic planning related to projects and workflows, including leadership workshops, decision forums, and sponsor alignment
- Develop and execute change management strategies and plans, including stakeholder impact and readiness assessments
- Create, develop, and deliver communication materials, presentations, messaging, and end-user communications
- Develop training materials including decks, job aids, guides, digital and asynchronous learning
- Must have strong writing skills and understanding of audience and topic alignment
- Drive hands-on implementation of project plans, change activities, communications, and training elements, ensuring alignment with milestones and measurable adoption outcomes
- Be able to evaluate project phases and workflow and create solutions as well as influence decision making
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5-7 years experience in project management, with direct ownership of project delivery outcomes
- Must have strong PM consulting experience
- Ideal if PMI or PMP certified
- Industry knowledge and professional experience in environmental and/or industrial service industry is highly desired
- Demonstrated experience in change management, communications, and training development
- Prosci Certified Change Practitioner® (or equivalent, recognized change management certification) required
- Strong written, verbal, and facilitation skills across executive and frontline audiences
- Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional environments
- Hands-on project and change management experience delivering large-scale enterprise initiatives, improving data management and governance programs, and industrial or environmental transformations
- Professional, executive level presence and the ability to work on video for meetings, workshops and training
- E-Learning tool experience using Storyboard, Rise, and/or Camtasia