Project Portfolio Manager

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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.

Position overview:

As the Project Portfolio Manager you're a key member of the Technical Process Team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Operations Control. You will contribute to the success of Ball by establishing and enforcing project excellence standards to optimize project processes, enhance project analysis techniques, and provide practical recommendations to improve Ball's project outcomes, ensuring project success and alignment with organizational goals.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Develop comprehensive project plans in collaboration with Project Managers, considering business case, customers, suppliers, scope, timelines, comprehensive budgets, resources, and lead project execution timely and within-budget execution. Project scope includes but not limited to new line start-ups, greenfield and new line capability projects.
• Facilitate and coordinate the efforts of multiple business projects within Beverage Packaging EMEA happening simultaneously with cross functional stakeholders; drive the scope of the project, project structure and processes: from demand management, strategic alignment, to portfolio categories and criteria, through evaluation, selection and prioritization; to execution, tracking and measuring the achieved results.
• Provide project oversight, quality reviews, and coordination of deliverables, ensuring effective project reporting. Ensure the oversight and coordination of dependencies across the projects in the portfolio, and resolve conflicts.
• Effectively communicate and influence cross-functionally with plant personnel, Operations, Engineering, Commercial, Quality, and Supply Chain stakeholders, and Executive Leadership team on project expectations, progress, timeline and updates clearly and effectively.
• Responsible for supporting and driving start-ups, ramp-ups and other operational project outcomes which will be direct link that will positively impact BPEMEA's critical Key Performance Indicator's (KPIs); including the development of new KPI's for project success measurement.
• Provide clear and effective formal project updates through cadences and presentations to the Executive Leadership team.
• Lead review of all projects in portfolio in various stages of their lifecycle, including those that are challenged and execute recommendations to get back on track: continue on path, be significantly changed, placed on hold or stopped.
• Facilitate the management and mitigation of project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions across the project portfolio.

What are we looking for?

• Minimum of 6 years' relevant experience in project management activities within manufacturing industry.
• Experience with various project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and other continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., DMAIC, Kanban, and Lean Six Sigma).
• Experience with project KPI's and project milestone tracking.
• Proven experience in influencing and communicating across various stakeholder levels and across different cultures.
• Experience with budget preparation and ownership.
• Data Management activities and data analysis skills.
• Fluent in English.

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Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.

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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