Value Delivery Project Manager - Remote

UNFI is North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering a wide variety of products to community grocers and retail chains. The Value Delivery Project Manager is responsible for leading strategic transformation programs and initiatives, managing project execution, and collaborating with stakeholders to achieve project objectives and deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Manages project execution full cycle including budget, schedule, and scope, risk
• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Manages project life cycle by applying effective project methodology and enforce project standards
• Manages, resolves, and escalates, as appropriate, issues to ensure high quality deliverables
• Develop and manage work breakdown structures of projects
• Develop implementation plans that include cost-benefits or ROI
• Communicates with stakeholders and updates project sponsors on progress of projects and plans, including negotiations with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources
• Supports the coordination of project teams/personnel
• Minimizes exposure and risk on project and ensures appropriately action
• Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
• Performs other relevant job duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required, or equivalent professional business experience
• PMP Certification and/or prior experience with various methodology of project management
• 3-5 years of program, project and change management and associated methodologies, techniques, processes, and approaches
• Demonstrated experience with capability-building efforts
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies
• Ability working in project management software
• Ability to analyze situations and evaluate the best solution to solve problems
• Outstanding leadership and communication skills. Collaborative work style
• Demonstrated project management and implementation success. Strong organization skills
• Ability to multi-task and arbitrate between conflicting priorities with clear target setting and follow-through capability in a fast-paced work environment
• Effective communication skills with the ability to build rapport and trust with reporting teams, stakeholders, and executives
• In-depth knowledge of program and project plan development and management, scheduling methodology, agile methodologies, program and project metrics, analysis, and status reporting
• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available