About this role
Job Title: Sr. Project Manager- 3PL
Department: Business Solutions Group
FLSA: Exempt
Location: Erlanger, KY
Working Conditions: This position operates in office, warehouse, distribution-center, and customer-site environments. Use of personal protective equipment while in operational areas is required
Reports To: SVP Business Solution, Director of Project Management
Direct Reports: Project Managers, Project Coordinators
Effective Date: 10/14/2026
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead multiple concurrent projects across warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, value-added services, and supply-chain technology.
• Develop project charters, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and governance routines.
• Translate customer requirements and contractual commitments into executable operational and technical deliverables.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Operations, Solutions, Engineering, IT, Transportation, Finance, Sales, Human Resources, Safety, Quality, and Procurement.
• Manage customer onboarding, site start-ups, network transitions, systems integrations, automation initiatives, and continuous-improvement programs.
• Track scope, milestones, dependencies, financial performance, risks, issues, and change requests; implement corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.
• Facilitate project meetings, executive reviews, customer updates, and lessons-learned sessions.
• Ensure solutions comply with customer requirements, standard operating procedures, quality standards, safety expectations, and applicable regulations.
• Manage vendors and implementation partners, including deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and escalation paths.
• Oversee testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to steady-state operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost, service, capacity, productivity, inventory accuracy, and customer experience.
• Coach project team members and promote disciplined, repeatable project-management practices.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Seven or more years of progressive project-management experience, including responsibility for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in third-party logistics, contract logistics, warehousing, distribution, transportation, fulfillment, or supply-chain operations.
• Experience managing customer-facing implementations, operational start-ups, systems deployments, or network transitions.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, risk management, financial controls, change management, and executive communication.
• Proficiency with project-management and productivity tools.
• Ability to travel to customer and operating locations as project needs require.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification.
• Experience with warehouse management, transportation management, labor management, enterprise resource planning, or electronic data interchange systems.
• Experience with automation, material-handling equipment, facility design, or warehouse engineering.
• Working knowledge of 3PL commercial models, statements of work, service-level agreements, and implementation budgets.