Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company (“GPC” or the “Company”), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and China.

Position Purpose:

The project lead is an individual who is excited about driving project completion, solving problems and delivering valuable projects in a startup like environment inside an existing Fortune 500 business. They will also collaborate with business stakeholders and participate in strategic planning activities such as program and product road mapping and financial planning to help grow the program and project management practice.

Responsibilities: 

•     Coordinates multiple projects to ensure assigned tasks are completed within schedule

•     Sets up projects in the project management tool 

•     Tracks and completes project tasks, follows up on open items, and tracks issues

•     Builds intradepartmental teams for project preparation and implementation and provides each member appropriate permissions to projects

•     Coordinates communication of group for meetings, deadlines, and project updates. Coordinates follow-up and next steps for team related to the activities of the implementation phase

•     Maintains project reference library for each type of project

•     Investigates and troubleshoots user issues with the project management tools and follows up with user regarding solution

•     Participates in project team meetings, recaps events, and updates schedules as directed

•     Follows up to ensure project managers and team members have what is needed to complete their tasks and responds proactively to requests for information

•     Creates job aids and schedules/conducts training sessions for project management tool.

•     Other duties as assigned

Location:

•     GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.

•     We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work remotely

Qualifications:

•     Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering or a related business discipline from an accredited college or university, or equivalent work experience

•     Prior project leadership experience preferred

•     Expert level experience with Microsoft Office suite of products including: Excel (including vlookups, pivot tables, and formulas), Word, Project, PowerPoint

•     Strong inter-personal and communication skills (both presentation and written)

•     Strong organizational and problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

•     Willingness to adapt and change priorities on the short term without sacrificing long term goals

•     Well organized and capable of multi-tasking (will have projects in various states)

•     Ability to explain implementation plan with project teams and ability to solve problems reported by team

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.