Project Manager - Logistics Pillar

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Position overview: This role provides project management services for Global Supply Chain Projects as directed.  Project Manager is responsible for leading a team of professionals in completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives.  Duties include setting, dividing up and tracking the budget for different project aspects, ensuring equipment and service orders are placed that support overall project costs and schedules, hiring freelance professionals and selecting project team members from internal departments, plus setting and adjusting project schedules to adhere to deadlines.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leads the intake of projects originating from the Profit Plus ideation program by interviewing ideators, clarifying objectives, and developing a clear project charter with defined goals, assumptions, constraints, and expected business benefits
• Identifies, maps, and engages all relevant internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment across functions such as operations, engineering, logistics, planning, quality, finance, HR, customer teams, and external partners as required
• Conducts initial discovery and analysis to define the project scope, including scope of work and, when applicable, scope of systems. Owns the preparation, review, and sign-off of the Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Develops the full project plan, including resource planning, workstream definition, milestone planning, critical path analysis, stage-gate setup, and governance structure to ensure the project is properly controlled from the start.
• Prepares AFE's, requisitions, and cost estimates with detailed scopes of work and clear justification. Establishes the project budget, secures approvals, and manages financial control throughout the lifecycle of the project
• Directs the planning and implementation of assigned projects, ensuring execution against approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. Defines KPIs and decision criteria to support stage progression and timely issue resolution
• Establishes and monitors project schedules using critical path methodology, revises plans as needed, and coordinates responsibility plans and start-up production plans to maintain delivery commitments
• Manages project cost to minimize spend while achieving approved objectives, using the company's project accounting and cost control systems. Maintains accurate forecasts through continuous cost tracking and reforecasting
• Provides regular project status updates to management and stakeholders, covering progress, risks, issues, costs, schedule, and decisions required. Maintains clear action item tracking and accountability throughout the project
• Builds and leads cross-functional project teams, fostering collaboration across multiple disciplines and ensuring roles, responsibilities, and deliverables are clearly understood and executed
• Uses Microsoft Project, cost control systems, action item lists, and other tools in an effective and disciplined way to support planning, scheduling, financial tracking, documentation, and communication
• Completes projects with a structured after-care phase, including validation of results, handover to operations or business owners, and documentation of lessons learned to improve future projects

What are we looking for?

• Completed Bachelor's Degree 
• Fluent in English language
• Job-related experience
• Financial acument and strong project management experience
• Cross-functional project execution in a manufacturing environment
• Project management principles and stage-gate processes
• Business case development and project charter creation
• Requirements gathering and BRD preparation
• Budgeting, AFE/requisition processes, and cost control
• Project scheduling, critical path, and resource planning
• Cross-functional project execution in a manufacturing environment

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role.  

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic.  

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems. 

* This position will be posted internally for a minimum of 5 business days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants. 

No agencies please. 

• Job Grade: 12
• Hiring Leader: Frederik Vanlede
• Relocation will not be offered. 
• Please, submit your resume in English.