Project Manager

Yakima Chief Hops is a company focused on delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic and technical projects. The Project Manager plays a critical role in leading multiple complex projects simultaneously, ensuring alignment with the company's business and digital strategies while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed project plans, including RACIs, scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely execution of tasks
• Apply PMO-approved methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) for consistency and quality
• Enforce PMO standards, templates, and best practices across all projects
• Maintain accurate documentation on Confluence and in Jira for audits and compliance purposes
• Ensure projects adhere to organizational policies and regulatory requirements
• Identify potential risks early and develop mitigation strategies
• Track and resolve issues promptly to minimize project disruption
• Escalate critical risks to leadership only when necessary
• Allocate resources effectively across multiple projects
• Monitor budgets, control costs, and produce financial reports for stakeholders
• Optimize resource utilization to maximize efficiency
• Serve as the primary liaison between project teams, PMO leadership, and business stakeholders
• Provide regular status updates, presentations, dashboards, and performance metrics
• Facilitate clear communication to ensure alignment on goals and expectations
• Conduct project reviews and lessons-learned (retrospective) sessions
• Recommend process improvements to enhance PMO maturity
• Support training and mentoring for project managers and team members
• Align with strategic business objectives
• Are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget
• Maintain consistency and transparency across the organization
• Maintain sanitary and safe work environment and follow safety requirements
• May actively participate on company’s Safety Committee
• Ensure that company safety policies as well as federal, state and local safety and environmental regulations are observed
• Must have a complete understanding of company’s policies, Employee Handbook, SOPs, QPs, EPs, HACCP and cGMP that pertain to their department to ensure quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability
• Must adhere to all company policies
• Examine documents, materials, and products and monitor work processes to assess completeness, accuracy and conformance to standards and specifications
• Follow all SOPs in a given area
• Perform all other duties as assigned by Manager and/or designee

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Business Administration, or related field
• 3 to 5 years in project management
• Proven success managing multiple long-running, complex agile projects in parallel
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI), or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification
• Project management expertise (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)
• Advanced in Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and the Microsoft Office suite
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
• Effective in fast-paced, matrixed environments
• Successful record of on-time, on-budget project delivery
• Collaborative team player
• Works well independently and cross-functionally
• Clear written and verbal communicator
• Values strong relationships
• Adept at de-escalating issues
• Highly organized
• Functions well with ambiguity
• Experienced with data analytics return on investment (ROI) reporting
• Willingness to travel as needed
• Prior experience leading and delivering CRM, Enterprise Systems, and Business Strategy projects
• Proven track record for autonomously leading and delivering 3 to 5 complex projects
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility to engage with senior-level stakeholders
• Strong sense of internal customer service and adaptability
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for learning and teaching others
• Strong understanding of SDLC and digital transformation principles