Senior Project Leader

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Project Leader to join our global team in Little Rock, AR, United States, or remotely if the employee is within 40 miles from a Vestcom facility. This role is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Project Administration: Uses work management platforms to manage the project and tasks within the project to show burndown, resource utilization, project progress, and documentation.
• Project Onboarding and Closure: Drives project onboarding and closure including business and product requirement reviews, work item management and development, quoting, scheduling, resource management, and closure.
• Sprint Project Management & Issue Management: Manages the successful delivery of project portfolios for clients including publishing project schedules, maintaining project plans, facilitating agile ceremonies, and supporting the Helpdesk issue management process in Workfront.
• Reporting & IT Process Improvement: Creates, monitors, and trains users on work management platform reports that drive processes, while championing Agile methodology values to identify workflow inefficiencies and train stakeholders in new workflows.
• Stakeholder Management & Additional Duties: Promote collaboration and clear communication with both internal and external stakeholders, including key business partners, and execute other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Communications, or related field; 5+ years of related Information Technology project management experience; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• PMI Project Management Professional (“PMP”) or Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• Previous experience with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront, or Microsoft Project for project tracking and resource scheduling; AzureDevOps and Workfront experience a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to effectively inform/update internal and external stakeholders regularly on status and immediately on any issues.
• Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, teamwork skills to work with diverse teams, and ability to prioritize work requests from multiple requestors with limited resource availability.

We Offer

• Health Insurance: Access to our large network of medical and behavioral health professionals.
• Retirement: Avery Dennison supports your retirement readiness financially through company contributions to the 401(k) Plan. We encourage you to save as much as possible to meet your goals. You receive an automatic contribution of 3% of eligible pay (even if you contribute $0) plus a matching contribution of 50% on the first 7% of eligible pay you contribute.
• Parental Leave: Your salary is 100% paid during your approved parental leave of absence as a biological, adoptive, and/or foster parent.
• Paid Time Off: We offer a generous vacation program that varies based upon your experience and position within Avery Dennison.

Salary

The salary range for this position is $76,800 - $113,568 / year.

About the Company

We are a global materials science and digital identification solutions company with locations in over 50 countries, and approximately 35,000 employees worldwide. As a science and innovation company, we believe that diverse teams are stronger teams. We are committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and courage, where you can grow your career with a company that has innovation in its DNA. Founded on creating real-world impact to enable a better future, we strive to provide an open, collaborative culture where diversity of thought is encouraged and respected.

Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected status.