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Job Summary:
The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for coordinating ongoing activities and ensure workstream delivery progress on schedule. They will support cross functional and international transition efforts across Cananda, the U.S. and Mexico.

Essential Job Functions:
• Liaise across sites in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to align transition efforts.
• TSA Execution: Work with the workstream leads to track: performance, proper invoicing, and monitor service delivery.
• Work with operations and support coordination of asset transfers, production activities follow up.
• Follow up on build-up, warehousing, and transition of buffer stock per OSA milestones.
• Synchronize planning, dependencies, and execution between functions.
• Maintain master schedule, track KPIs, and issue weekly reports and dashboards.
• Manage and escalate operational issues effectively.
• Maintain action logs, central repositories, and formal records of activities.
• Prepare materials and follow-up actions for project reviews, and steering meetings.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Required Competencies:
Education/Experience
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in project management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Strong in cross-functional coordination, issue resolution, and risk management.
• Knowledge of the market
• Effective risk management
• Ability to build and maintain sustainable relationships with customers
• Suppliers' management skills

Leadership Skills / Management Skills / Personal Skills:
• Change agent
• Ability to manage and solve conflicts.
• Ability to analyze, synthesize, and manage complex situations, solve conflicts and drive team alignment.
• Strong customer orientation, with a focus on quality control, integrity, and time management.
• Demonstrated capability to mentor, coach, and develop teams, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Critical Thinking
• Leadership by influence, cultural agility, and diplomacy in executive-facing environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder engagement, and reporting abilities.
• A self-motivated team player able to operate with the minimum of supervision that can communicate clearly (both written and oral) with employees, suppliers at levels from individual contributor to executive management.
• Ability to contribute at a strategic level within the business.
• Highly organized, rigorous and achievement of goal orientated.
• Strong communication, listening and negotiation skills.