Senior Project Manager

About SunOpta

SunOpta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers' growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice and e-commerce channels across North America.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Project Management: Lead and oversee project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and timelines.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to facilitate communication and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle.
• Clear and Effective Communication: Foster a culture of open communication by articulating project goals, updates, and challenges clearly and concisely to all stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding across all levels of the organization.
• Change Management: Navigate and manage projects in a dynamic environment, demonstrating adaptability to organizational changes and evolving priorities.
• Accountability: Ensure project accountability by maintaining comprehensive documentation, risk management, and adherence to budgetary constraints.
• Metrics and Reporting: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess project performance and provide regular updates and reports to stakeholders.
• Executive Presence: Ability to partner with senior leaders/stakeholders, managing up and making sure stakeholders are kept informed and engaged. Prepare and present comprehensive executive summaries to senior leadership, highlighting project status, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Business Knowledge: Develop sufficient knowledge of the SunOpta business environment and goals to facilitate and coordinate the end-to-end project timeline and milestones to deliver overall project objectives and goals.
• All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Science, or Related Field or equivalent experience in the Project Management space.
• 6 - 8+ years of overall business experience with cross-functional project management expertise, from ideation to completion and beyond.
• Experience implementing cross-functional strategic projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Continuous Improvement experience or certifications.
• Candidate must possess a strong working knowledge of Project Management.
• Knowledge of Lean Practices.
• Capital Expenditure effort experience.
• Manufacturing environment knowledge or experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with business process analysis and redesign.
• Gap analysis skills that translate into action plans and resolution.
• Expertise in project management theory and practice.
• Outstanding verbal, written, multi-tasking and presentation skills.
• Ability to create momentum and foster organizational change.
• Must have a working knowledge of MS Word and MS PowerPoint software and be proficient with MS Excel software.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills for all levels of business.

Additional Considerations:

• Travel Expectation: Up to 35%, primarily to SunOpta manufacturing plants.
• This role will be based out of SunOpta's Corporate Office in Eden Prairie, MN.

Work Environment/Physical Demands:

• Approximately 95% of work is performed in an office environment.5% of work may involve being in an agricultural or manufacturing environment.

Featured benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid Family leave
• Paid maternity leave
• 401(k) with Match
• Voluntary Life, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital indemnity
• Paid Holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability insurance

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

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