Digitalization & Vehicle Project Specialist : 199626

No relocation offered, No Corp to Corp offered, No 3rd party recruiter candidates accepted. Functional Title: Digitalization & Vehicle Project Specialist : 199626 Pay Range: 35.00-48.00 per hour (Depends on experience) Contract: Long term ongoing with no end date PTO, Sick Pay, and Holiday Pay Offered DAY-TO-DAY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO THIS POSITION. This role primarily focuses on digitalization initiatives, requiring a strong understanding of coding and the ability to generate functional code, ideally using AI tools. In addition to technical skills, the position involves significant project management responsibilities, such as breaking down projects into actionable tasks, building relationships with team members responsible for those tasks, and supporting them through completion. Strong communication and presentation skills are essential for identifying areas where support is needed, ensuring alignment, and delivering updates effectively. The top three skills: Coding, project management, and communication. A must-have requirement is some level of coding experience or exposure , while proficiency in all the listed skills would be considered a nice-to-have. Scope: Supports digitalization and innovation strategies within the Purchasing and Supplier Network Americas through collaboration with stakeholders, process partners. Responsible for the development of specific digitalization projects which support the overall strategy. Supports the industrialization of new vehicle project launches through implementation of supplier quality improvement initiatives. Identifies, evaluates, implements, and manages communication initiatives and events for the Purchasing and Supplier Network Americas. Responsibilities: Participates in vehicle project and volume assurance projects. Collaborates within cross-functional meetings to ensure that project expectations are aligned and visible for discussion. Provides transparency for multi-project landscape affecting operations to the project and management teams. Reviews cross-functional projects that could impact the MN organization and ensure all dependencies, risks, and gaps are identified and accounted. Examine critical concepts for management approval. Provides project support to ensure goals are being consistently met through strategic problem-solving. Leads and supports departmental continuous improvement initiatives within MN. Performs other duties as assigned by management. Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify, plan, implement and manage digitalization projects to meet strategic needs of the Purchasing and Supplier Network Americas. This includes coding and development of these digitalization projects. Serves as the point of contact for technical inquiries, managing change management initiatives for the purpose of increased efficiency and reduced need for external service contracts and/or licenses. Serves as the point of contact for small to medium sized projects, conducts status meetings, and effectively drives projects to completion. Communicates and represents the department with requests, testing and deployment. Leads internal/external benchmarking activities for new technologies based on industry, internal and facilities Group entity standards, and innovations. Creates, modifies, and maintains process instructions and delivers education on new technologies for applicable systems and IT tools when needed especially as new projects are developed. Supports the new vehicle project launches during the initialization phase. Collaborates within cross-functional teams to ensure that project expectations are aligned and visible for discussion. Provides transparency for multi-project landscape affecting operations and identifies opportunities for quality improvement initiatives. Plans, develops, and leads to the implementation of identified initiatives. Develops and implements communication initiatives and events for the Purchasing and Supplier Network Americas with detailed content as appropriate for the intended audience. Supports shaping the division’s communications both internally and externally. Creates a detailed work plan which identifies and sequences the activities needed including effectively allocating resources to successfully complete assigned projects. Prepares, consolidates, and edits relevant and sometimes complex communications of the Americas, including Mexico and Brazil to create a marketable storyline for events (i.e.: Employee Meetings, Supplier Forums, Project Events, Senior Management Meetings). Adheres to 5S and Safety Standards and Principles. Performs other duties as assigned by management. Education: BA/BS Degree preferably in information technology, Business Administration, communication Science or related discipline, OR 3 years equivalent professional experience. Experience: 3+ years of related software operation/training experience which would include Office 365 Apps, MS Copilot skills. 3+ years of experience using PowerBI and/or MS Excel to create KPIs, scorecards, reports, and dashboards. 3+ years of experience conceptualizing and implementing new tracking or reporting systems. 3+ years of experience with databases (e.g., Oracle, AWS) and coding languages (e.g., SQL, VBA, VS Code, Python). 3+ years of knowledge of information system concepts and technologies. 3+ years of written and oral communication and presentation skills. 3+ years of ability to interface with the business to meet requirements and targets. 3+ years of managing and working with data management and analysis, including understanding of various data structures and common methods in data transformation, data validation, and visualization. 3+ years of experience with data visualization tools and report writing systems preferred. 3+ years of project management skills. 3+ years of analysis and communication of complex systems. 3+ years of analytical skills that allow for the development of data-driven reports. 3+ years ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines, general project management experience. 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