Project Management Analyst

ROLE OVERVIEW

The PMO Analyst / Leader is responsible for facilitating Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA) strategic initiatives, delivering, and managing a portfolio of strategic projects aligned with the organization’s transformation agenda. This role will work broadly across the organization in the service of these goals. This role is responsible for the active management of initiatives within the transformation portfolio providing direct oversight to project management team members and initiative leaders, and working to drive collaboration across the initiatives working teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Portfolio And Project Management

• Lead broad strategic portfolio management of discreet initiatives supporting the life cycle from prioritization, project execution to results management and reporting
• Establish and maintain project approach, methodology and tools, templates and procedures for portfolio and project management
• Drive effective project management discipline and support strategic project initiatives from ideation and business case development through execution
• Identify trends, risks and opportunities that could hinder or accelerate the impact or execution of initiatives and recommends solutions to improve performance that could benefit the project, program, or our overall strategic portfolio
• Support scheduled and ad-hoc reporting needs for Transformation teams and key stakeholders, including metrics to assess performance

Strategic Advisory And Execution

• Collaborate with Business leaders and initiative teams to design and execute operating model transformation and enhancement initiatives
• Translate identified operating model improvements (e.g., process changes) into business cases, roadmaps and projects/tasks; work with teams to implement changes
• Demonstrate discretion and professionalism when working on sensitive business and organizational issues, manage ambiguity and propose workable solutions to challenging problems
• Implement change management processes and tools to help facilitate business transformations and process improvements

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, engineering, finance, or technology
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
• PMO experience and/or Shared Services Organization Management experience
• Demonstrated success and experience in Program Management or Business Transformation
• Action-oriented, creative, strategic thinking that identifies and connects opportunities, sees gaps, and finds points of connectivity across the enterprise
• Courage in challenging thinking and pushing the collective toward better outcomes to improve the health of the business
• Expert verbal and written communication skills developing presentations for a wide variety of audiences
• Demonstrated history of collaboration, inter-personal, and influencing skills
• Demonstrated success in working effectively with people at all levels of an organization
• Adept at enhancing team engagement and value proposition and building an inclusive, equitable, collaborative and fun work environment
• Bias for action, ability to deal with ambiguity, and natural perseverance to overcome obstacles and deliver outcomes when leading change
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Strong team player with ability to multi-task and meet deadlines, while thriving in a fast-paced work environment
• Expert level proficiency in Microsoft office, and related business intelligence tools

Preferred

• Experience in Consumer-Packaged Goods
• Six Sigma Certification
• Experience in business process re-engineering and process improvement techniques
• Proficiency with Collaboration Tools (e.g., SmartSheet, Slack, Teams, etc.)