Senior Manager Supply Chain Project Management

Job ID: 14216 

Alternate Locations: United States-North Carolina-Huntersville; United States-Indiana-Fishers; United States-Kansas-Wichita; United States-Massachusetts-Whately; United States-Tennessee-Maryville-Tennessee; United States-Virginia-Winchester 

Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands like Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid®, Sharpie® and Yankee Candle® - and 24,000 talented teammates around the world. Our culture is built on values in action: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, and Leadership. We work together to win, grow, and make a real impact—supported by a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative environment where you can be your best, every day.

Job Summary: The Supply Chain Project Management Office (SCPMO) operates as a Center of Excellence for Project Management at a strategic level and sits inside of the Global Supply Chain function, collaborating directly with Senior Leaders in Manufacturing, Strategy, Integration, Productivity and ERA, with responsibility for key projects across the Global Supply Chain organization. The main goal of the SCPMO is to provide quality project management services and build project management capabilities across the Global Supply Chain using standards, guidelines, processes, tools, and techniques to efficiently and agilely implement projects. In this role, the Senior Manager will also leverage existing and emerging technologies, including advanced analytics, automation, and Artificial Intelligence, to enhance project delivery, governance, and decision making across the global supply chain portfolio. This includes enabling more effective project planning, execution, and risk management through digital tools and data driven insights, while partnering with cross functional teams to identify opportunities to improve visibility, streamline processes, and strengthen overall project outcomes. The role will help advance the PMO’s capabilities by integrating digital and AI enabled approaches that drive efficiency, consistency, and measurable business value across initiatives.

Specific Responsibilities

• Leads and oversees high priority and complex projects requiring a high level of cross functional integration to deliver projects in all Supply Chain regions for Manufacturing and D&T operation optimization.
• Demonstrate good capabilities in all project management competencies, including planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling of strategic and complex technical projects.
• Manage projects from initial concept through final implementation following the full project Lifecyle from initiation to closeout.
• Responsible to define and deliver project scope; manage a decentralized project team; partner effectively with multiple functional and segments leads to identify and mitigate risks to timeline and cost.
• Responsible for ensuring all project requirements are properly identified and translated to project documentation to define the scope.
• Create and review project plans, work with stakeholders to understand complex problems, propose resolution, remove roadblock in a timely manner and escalate when necessary to meet timelines.
• Drive the adoption to SCPMO management standards and practices to conduct consistently, efficiently, and timely the projects execution.
• Drives team accountability and ownership to deliver project on time, on budget, and with measurable business outcomes, including cost, service, and cash flow improvements.
• Monitor and report status of project progress and risks to the project sponsor, leadership team and key stakeholders.
• Hold regular reviews with peer managers to ensure program and project plans are aligned with major initiative among Global Supply Chain as assigned.
• Leverage financial and operational data to drive fact-based, proactive decision making and identify risks and opportunities across the project portfolio. .
• Identify PMO capability gaps and lead the development and implementation of standardized, scalable frameworks, tools, and processes to improve consistency, reduce risk, and advance PMO maturity across the global supply chain.
• Lead change management efforts to ensure adoption of new processes, tools, and capabilities across the organization.
• Provide support and guidance to Associate Manager, Project Manager as needed with oversight on their project progress and development, while forming strong partnerships with cross-functional teams.
• Mentor and coach Associate Manager and Project Managers to drive their performance and future career goals.
• Encourages alignment across functions in Global Supply Chain and Segments to effectively manage and monitor Capital /Cash spend within guidelines of established project budget to meet project objectives.
• Leads collaboration efforts across the organization to leverage best practices, expertise, and shared resources.
• Provide coaching and training to functional or local Project Managers to build on site project management capabilities across Newell global supply chain.
• Leverage advanced analytics and AI-enabled tools to enhance project planning, execution, risk management, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to apply data-driven and AI-based solutions to improve project outcomes and supply chain performance.
• Incorporate data-driven insights into governance routines to proactively manage risks, dependencies, and value delivery.

The Candidate

The selected Senior Manager, Supply Chain PMO candidate will have responsibility to deliver solutions for the Global Supply chain which is a vertically integrated operation inside Newell Brands. This requires excellence in strategic, tactical leadership and planning across all geographies and functions, including Manufacturing, Distribution, Engineering, Productivity, Finance, R&D, Data Management, EHS and Real Estate.

The candidate must be technically competent with a willingness to being hands-on and comfortable with tactical execution while working on projects of strategic importance.

Key Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Management, or related technical field, PMP Certification preferred.

• 10+ years of leadership experience preferred in project management for Supply Chain on CGP industries.
• Demonstrated familiarity with manufacturing or DC operation and production/supply planning.
• Experience leading complex programs with high complexity and high levels of capital spend.
• Proven ability to facilitate relations between Executive Leadership, Operations and Distribution teams, along with business and segments functions at a global level.
• Ability to interact and communicate appropriately with cross-functional personnel through executive leadership.
• Demonstrated track record of effectively building partnerships to manage and resolve challenges.
• Demonstrated familiarity with structured project management methodologies.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience managing technical and business requirements to deliver integrated solutions.
• Experience in developing and deploying project management best practices, policies, procedures, and processes.
• Logical and creative problem-solving and analytical skills required.
• Experience with modern project management, collaboration, and analytics tools such as Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Power BI, and similar platforms..
• Working knowledge of AI, advanced analytics, or data-driven applications within supply chain or operations.
• Strong data literacy with the ability to translate insights into actionable business decisions.
• Possesses influencing skills (leads by example, clearly articulates business cases and interpretation of cause-effect impact).
• Demonstrates high ethics and values.
• Highly effective organization and planning skills.
• Ability to travel 25% to Supply Chain locations across the US and Internationally
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Consumer products industry experience.

• Comfortable working with diverse and distributed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
• MBA or advance Degree in Business, Management, or related field.
• Bi-lingual preferred but not required.

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Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.