Project Specialist – Dairy Foods Marketing
Full time @Land O’Lakes, Inc. in Agriculture and Extraction Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Job ID 3047
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Career Level Others
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Experience 2 Years
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
Join Land O’Lakes, and you join boundless thinkers and doers from all walks of life working together to feed the world. Take pride in working with some of America’s favorite brands, including Purina Animal Nutrition, WinField United, Vermont Creamery and KozyShack, and more.
You’ll be joining a team committed to everything from the seeds that go into the ground, to the technology that improves crop yields and sustainability, to the grain that animals eat to produce milk, to marketing the final product, like our many legendary products.
We’re looking for audacious optimists and innovative thinkers to help us meet food’s toughest challenges.
Project Specialist – Dairy Foods Marketing
The Dairy Foods Business Unit seeks a qualified Project Specialist to support the Specialty and Innovation Team. The Project Specialist role supports efforts across the group. More specifically, this role has the following accountabilities:
- Developing and managing product timelines, including setting targets for milestones, adhering to deadlines, and determining how success will be measured and tracked. Project Specialist must be highly skilled in managing processes, timelines, cross-functional teams, and deadlines, and be able to troubleshoot bottle necks and improve workflow processes.
- Leading Cross-Functional Teams to ensure project elements have appropriate resources and the project stays on time and within budget. This includes the ability to make effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project and adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needed.
- Identifying and managing potential risks and liabilities of multiple projects and preparing progress reports to ensure the project is further organizational goals.
- Assisting in the definition of project scope and goals.
- Manages the project budgets, including Allocadia management, tracking expenses to budget, and communicating with marketing team and cross-functional budget partners, facilitating requests and reconciling reports.
- Responsible for all aspects of invoice payment for market research projects and marketing spend (new supplier setups, PO setups, invoice processing, etc.)
- Supports the development of business growth strategies by conducting ad hoc data analysis enabling analytical and strategic recommendations on all projects.
- This role will be very fast paced in an ambiguous environment and requires flexibility to work with a broad cross-functional team and understand individual function responsibilities.
Requirements:
- 4-year college degree
- 2 years project management experience desired
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence cross functional team members to hit project goals as well as communicating to Manager when challenges occur how to address them
- Proficient with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, Project, Powerpoint and Word
- Able to multi-task
- Strong analytical abilities
