Senior Project Manager

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Primary Purpose of Position:
Manages complex medium-to-large scale projects using advanced project management methodology and processes.  Leads project teams and responsible for ensuring creation of project objectives and plans to deliver quality solutions on time and in full. Manages the strategic and tactical aspects of large projects and mitigates any risks; this includes reviewing and managing high-level deliverables within and across business units, performing project reviews and ensuring project management best practices are utilized. 

Essential Functions: 

• Create project plans based on business case, timelines, dependencies, financial factors and resources and ensure on-time execution in full.
• Provide project oversight and quality reviews, coordination of deliverable sign-off, and project reporting.
• Understand alternate delivery methods and ability to modify/align that methodology with the needs of the project.
• Formulate and manage the process for prioritizing and sequencing activity required to support successful execution of objectives at each decision point throughout the project while managing risk and project dependencies.
• Understand the demand model and assess impacts that result from potential project changes.
• Conduct risk and issue planning, integrate associated outcomes into the project plan.
• Manage the project change process and determine the impact of project changes on the business case, and re-forecast value creation.
• Manages projects to minimize the cost required to achieve approved project objectives, effectively using Ball’s project accounting systems. 
• Effectively directs all members of project teams, including Steering Committee and external vendors.
• Provide oversight of supplier project managers responsible for program/project management activities and delivery including project scope management, review of status reports, project accounting and resolution/escalation of deviations from plan that have an impact on other projects, resources, cost, or time.

Position Requirements:

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Broad training in a related field or college graduate degree level education or work-related experience
• BA/BS in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience 
• 3+ years of experience managing large-scale initiatives
• 7+ years of project management experience 
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly desired 
• Advanced proficiency in project management tools such as Microsoft Project or Jira, including financial, and schedule performance reporting 
• Advanced proficiency in analytical, organizational, project management, interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) 
• Customer- and relationship-focused, process-driven, metric-focused, results-oriented, organized, self-directed 
• Experienced in managing project scopes, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders with budget and risks 
• Experience with metrics-driven management of small to medium scale projects efforts
• Proven project planning and management experience
• Good knowledge of ERP systems functionality, e.g., J.D. Edwards, SAP
• Working knowledge of the following areas:
• • system and business principles, practices, nomenclature, and procedures
  • generally accepted managerial practices and procedures

Demonstrated Ball Leadership Skills for Managers and Above:

Inspire

• Inspirational Role Model–Understands themselves and seeks opportunities to learn. Shows composure, responding consistently, openly, and courageously in all situations.
• Authentic Leadership–Demonstrates humility in the way they lead others. Takes a stand for what is right and admits their mistakes.
• Leadership Presence–Inspires trust in the broader organization. Acts on a sense of what the organization most needs to elevate its impact and move forward through complexity.

Connect

• Relationship Builder–Listens and empathizes, engages a wide range of people. Embraces peoples’ differences and helps every individual feel special and valued.
• People Grower–Encourages leadership in others and takes risks to help others grow. Champions collaboration across the organization.
• Culture Champion–Consciously evolves the culture to help secure the future of the business. Recognizes where behaviors need to change and how to change them.

Achieve

• Results Oriented–A desire to make things happen, sets stretch goals, and motivates others to achieve them. Always looking to create a better result for customers.
• Future Catalyst–Communicates a vision of the future that compels others and helps them see around corners. Embraces change, takes risks, and seeks diverse perspectives.
• Breakthrough Strategist–Sees connections others don’t see. Translates this new insight into break-through strategies that open up new directions. Enrolls others in the new.

 Compensation & Benefits

• Hiring Salary Range: $108,500 - $155,030 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
  -  This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
  -  Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.
• Relocation assistance may be available.

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details—such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates—from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates). 

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. 

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

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.
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