Job Description

Vallen is a leading provider of integrated supply chain solutions, industrial distribution, and safety services. We help organizations operate more efficiently and safely by delivering the products, technology, and expertise they need to keep their operations running.

Our approach is built on partnership — combining decades of experience in procurement, inventory management, and safety compliance with an unwavering focus on customer success. Through innovative digital tools, strategic sourcing, and world-class logistics, Vallen supports businesses across manufacturing, energy, construction, and industrial sectors throughout North America and beyond.

Our strength lies in our people and our commitment to service excellence. With deep expertise across supply chain management, operations, and technology integration, our teams work side by side with customers to identify opportunities for improvement, reduce total cost of ownership, and create sustainable operational value.

At Vallen, we don’t just deliver products — we deliver solutions that keep industries moving.

THE ROLE

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and tracking delivery across assigned ERP transformation workstreams. This role serves as a central point of coordination between business stakeholders, functional teams, technical teams, implementation partners, and program leadership to ensure scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and deliverables remain visible and aligned to program objectives.

The Project Manager supports execution throughout the project lifecycle by maintaining plans, facilitating working sessions, tracking actions and decisions, escalating risks, and ensuring readiness activities stay on track across all phases of the ERP implementation. This role operates within a complex, multi-workstream environment supporting the migration of multiple legacy ERP platforms to Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise (CSDe). Success in this role requires strong organizational discipline, proactive communication, and the ability to work effectively across teams without direct authority. The ideal candidate brings a structured, service-oriented mindset: keeping workstreams organized, surfacing issues early, and enabling program leadership and business owners to make informed decisions quickly.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery of assigned ERP workstreams and project initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, schedules, resource plans, and delivery roadmaps.
• Coordinate activities across business, functional, technical, data, integration, and change management teams.
• Support project governance activities, including status reviews, steering committee updates, decision tracking, escalation management, and change control processes.
• Identify, document, and track project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Monitor and report on deliverable status, commitments, and action items across all stakeholder groups, escalating gaps to program leadership.
• Partner with business leaders, SMEs, and implementation partners to ensure project objectives are understood and on track.
• Support business process discovery, design, testing, training, deployment, and organizational readiness activities.
• Ensure business stakeholders, GPOs, Lead SMEs, and implementation partners are prepared for workshops, decision checkpoints, testing activities, and project milestones.
• Track project health through metrics, reporting, and performance indicators, surfacing delivery concerns to program leadership proactively.
• Support cutover planning, deployment readiness, and go-live coordination activities.
• Maintain project documentation, decisions, and communications, ensuring appropriate distribution and accessibility.
• Support alignment between current-state operations and future-state ERP processes.
• Escalate critical risks, resource constraints, and delivery challenges to program leadership in a timely manner.
• Promote collaboration, transparency, and effective communication across all project participants.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years of project management experience supporting enterprise technology, ERP, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting large-scale ERP implementations, upgrades, or migrations.
• Experience working within complex initiatives involving business stakeholders, technical teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
• Experience supporting multiple concurrent workstreams within a complex program environment.
• Experience applying project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and delivery best practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar project management tools preferred.
• Project management certifications such as PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or equivalent preferred.

JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Knowledge of ERP systems, enterprise business processes, and operational workflows within distribution, warehouse, supply chain, manufacturing, or finance environments.
• Familiarity with ERP implementation methodologies and enterprise transformation practices.
• Understanding of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, and resource management principles.
• Knowledge of risk, issue, dependency, and change management processes.
• Familiarity with governance, decision management, and executive reporting practices.
• Strong facilitation, coordination, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work across diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority to keep workstreams moving and surface issues early.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to changing business priorities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to structure options and present them clearly to decision-makers.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with business leaders, technical teams, and implementation partners.
• Service-oriented approach to program support: organized, proactive, and focused on keeping teams informed and workstreams on track.
• Ability to flex between coordination and hands-on tactical support based on project phase, team capacity, and organizational need.
• Commitment to execution discipline, follow-through, and delivery quality.

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