Associate Project Manager

Your Story.
As a member of the Portfolio and Program Management team, the Associate Project Manager is responsible for the execution of project plans for assigned Corporate Portfolio priorities, with a focus on new product development and capacity expansion projects. As an entry level position, the Associate Project Manager will manage strategic initiatives under the direction of a senior project management professional. This individual facilitates cross functional teams in the execution of projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, culture, commitment, and goals.

Your Passion. Our Culture.
At Sargento, you work for a company you believe in, with a family of people who believe in you. Our culture stems from a simple premise: Hire good people and treat them like family. At Sargento, you can make decisions based on how they affect people as well as the long-term health of our company. You will be encouraged to make a meaningful difference in the community, in the company and in your career. With diverse experiences and tools to learn and develop, you can transform your aspirations into reality. If you're ready for the right place to belong and grow your career, you can find it here.

Benefits that set us apart.

• Comprehensive medical including Fertility, Adoption benefits, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Work Week
  
  
  
  • Hybrid work schedule - Onsite Tuesday - Thursday with the option to work remotely Monday and Friday
  • Compressed work week - Option of day Friday
  
  
  
  
• Onsite Health & Wellness Center
• Employer 401K contribution in the top 1% of the nation
• Relocation Assistance
• Tuition Assistance
• Access to Employee Store

What You Do.

• Facilitate initiatives that reside within the Sargento Corporate Portfolio, thus including new products, new production capabilities, process improvements, cost optimizations, and/or technology implementations.
• Assist with the management of complex, strategic programs and projects.
• Develop knowledge of internal operational and/or technical capabilities to assess and provide input on feasibility in early project phases.
• Collaborate with functional business areas' project leaders to clarify overall project objective, scope, timeline and needed resources.
• Facilitate project team meetings to establish deliverables, validate and confirm acceptance, track progress and project status, convey a sense of urgency to meet aggressive timelines, question appropriately, hold team members accountable and provide recognition.
• As part of the project team, identify, mitigate, prioritize, manage and help drive resolution of project and team issues, conflicts, constraints, dependencies and risks in a time sensitive manner. Recommend and manage changes to project scope, deliverables, timelines and resources to ensure project success.
• Provide transparency to stakeholders with continuous communication through meeting minutes, project updates, status reports, presentations and participation in leadership meetings as requested. Escalate risks to management in a timely manner and provide recommendations to resolve.
• Establish and maintain essential project and product documentation and retention. Provide support to project portfolio management and documentation as requested.
• Conduct post project evaluations and assess results. Work with cross functional project teams to optimize and create new processes to deliver project results.
• Use and support the team utilization of standard operating procedures and other established business processes. Recommend process improvements.
• Learn best business process and project management practices by participating in forums, seminars, training, user groups, and other organizations.

Your Education and Experience.

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university required with 0-2 years of related experience and/or training.
• This position requires knowledge of and/or exposure to foundational project management skills.
• Experience with applying project management practices preferred.
• Operations, new product development, or IT exposure or work experience preferred.

Our Story.
With over 2,400+ employees and net sales of $1.8 billion, Sargento Foods is a family-owned company that has been a leader in cheese for more than 70 years. We created the world's first, successful pre-packaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Sargento is based in Plymouth, Wisconsin, where we manufacture and market shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients and sauces. Sargento is known for the exceptional quality of our products and for product design, packaging and merchandising innovations that have transformed our industry.

To learn more about our culture and values, please visit our website at https://careers.sargento.com/us/en.

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