Senior Program Manager

Amcor Rigid Packaging

Senior Program Manager

Manchester, Michigan

Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.

Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care .

We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025.

Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.

We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions.

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At Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP), our teams are focused on developing and making plastic bottles and jars that create a unique experience and are better for the environment. Our bottles and jars are primarily made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which has rapidly become the world’s preferred packaging material. PET is lightweight, shatterproof, recloseable, resealable, reusable and infinitely recyclable*.

With approximately 6,000 people across about 50 manufacturing operations in 11 countries and an annual revenue of US$2.9 Billion, ARP provides rigid packaging solutions to the beverage, pharmaceutical, food, and home and personal care segments.

Learn more about the many benefits of PET bottles here.

*with existing technologies including chemical recycling

Position Overview:

The Program Manager will manage multiple projects at multiple sites using the program management life cycle methodology/Stage Gate process. This position is responsible for the entire program, from the conceptual phase through to the successful implementation and commercialization in the plants. The Program Manager is accountable for successful team implementation of programs by providing guidance and follows through and will act as a business partner to the Commercial Teams and plants. This role will also be responsible for supporting and leading continuous improvement in relation to the project management process. Projects will focus on injection parts and also include blown containers.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Create and lead cross functional teams to implement projects from initial concept to successful commercialization following Amcor’s standard stage/gate process focusing on speed to market, development efficiency, cost, quality and on time delivery.
• Work with cross function leadership to successfully commercialize new products, support light-weighting initiatives, raw material changes/developments, modifications to existing products and new production platforms.
• Manage projects including new production platforms, brand new commercial concepts, light-weight initiatives, tooling moves through the plant network, modifications to existing products and supporting product qualification and testing.
• Leads the formulation of complex plan and project solutions for projects with large, diverse scope, with constant change in customer requirements and decreased timeline.
• Support strategic projects including plant moves, integration and new technologies or materials.
• Manage 15-30 individual qualification projects at once. These will range from small to large working with general objectives, multiple and complex variables with limited or no guidelines.
• Anticipate and identify risk and develop mitigation plans with cross functional team.
• Communicate and resolve technical, timing and budgetary issues related to projects as they arise and publishes regular status reports outlining project status, risks and issues.
• Create and maintain program charter for commercialized projects including scope, timeline and team action registers.
• Lead and support continuous improvement activity in relation to on time and high quality launches
  

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technical or Engineering related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in in engineering and manufacturing with 3 years project management experience, experience in plastics preferred
• Proven experience managing complex projects and multiple resources
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate technical, operational and financial information while coordinating resources to complete projects within scope
• Proven ability to communicate, influence others and manage multiple resources
• Strong financial, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience with SPC, MS Office, SharePoint, MS Project, SAP and Windchill preferred
• Travel 20-25%
  

Competencies:

Amcor Leadership Framework Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Customer Focus
• Learning on the Fly
• Interpersonal Savvy
• Drive for Results
• Managerial Courage
  

3-5 Applicable ALF Competencies:

Process Management

Strategic Agility

Organizational Awareness

Influencing Others

Directing Others

Relationships:

• ARPNA Plant coworkers
• Operations, Operations Engineering, Quality, Commercial, R&D and Supply Chain Leadership
• Internal Amcor Functional Team members
• External customers
  

ADA Requirements:

Physical Requirements

Normal Vision

Distant Vision

Near Vision

Hearing/ Listening

Sitting

Talking/Speaking

Hand/Finger Dexterity

Walking

Standing

Stooping

Pushing/Pulling

Bending

Kneeling

Climbing

Lifting (amount 50+ pounds)

Carrying (amount 50+ pounds)

Driving- Forklift

Lifting (amount < 50 pounds)

Carrying (amount < 50 pounds)

Driving – Automobile/truck/van

Other Physical Requirements: N/A

Work Environment : Office Environment

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties, responsibilities, skills and/or abilities.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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