Project Director
Quest Food Management Services
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lombard • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $120,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Own end-to-end delivery of assigned strategic initiatives, including scope, planning, execution, and post-project review
- Manage interdependencies across concurrent initiatives
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, budgets, and resource requirements
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget, while meeting defined quality standards
- Design and implement a scalable PMO framework, including methodologies, tools, templates, and reporting standards
- Establish project intake, prioritization, and governance processes with senior leadership
- Provide portfolio-level visibility into project status, risks, capacity, and outcomes
- Build project management capability across the organization through standards and coaching
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project and portfolio communications
- Partner with executives and functional leaders to align initiatives with business priorities
- Interface regularly with executive leadership, business unit leaders, and cross-functional teams
- Facilitate decision-making by clearly communicating project status, risks, dependencies, and recommendations
- Prepare and present project updates to senior leadership, governance committees, and other key stakeholders
- Lead and coordinate efforts across multiple lines of business, including but not limited to Operations, Finance, IT, Legal, HR, and Marketing
- Align stakeholders around project objectives, deliverables, and timelines
- Proactively manage project risks, issues, and change control
- Establish governance structures, decision rights, success metrics, and best practices
- Lead post-project reviews to evaluate outcomes, lessons learned, and process improvements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years leading complex, cross-functional projects or programs
- Proven success delivering high-visibility, enterprise initiatives
- Strong executive communication, presentation and facilitation skills
- Proven ability to successfully manage a cadre of assignments as the same time
- Experience working within a PMO
- Proficiency with project management tools and methodologies (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementscope managementbudget managementrisk managementchange controlproject planningresource managementpost-project reviewPMO framework designgovernance structures
Soft skills
executive communicationpresentation skillsfacilitation skillsstakeholder alignmentcoachingdecision-makinginterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsleadershipcollaboration