Global Project Services - Project Manager III

The Project Manager III manages complex cross-functional projects using PMI-aligned practices to ensure successful delivery of scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives. Responsibilities include planning and coordinating project activities, developing schedules, tracking financials, maintaining documentation, escalating risks, and ensuring stakeholder alignment. This role drives continuous improvement, promotes PMO standards, and serves as a key communication link across teams and leadership.

The travel for this position is 10%.

This role is not remote/hybrid. This role will report to Sherwin-Williams Global Headquarters located at 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Provide planning, coordination and monitoring support for complex operational, engineering, and business initiatives

• Maintain accurate and timely project plans, meeting notes, status reporting and other relevant project documentation
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and tasks. Assist in defining scope, deliverables, success criteria and key metrics of the project in conjunction with project leadership and other key stakeholders
• Monitor project cost and resource usage where appropriate
• Escalate risks and issues that have potential to impact project(s)
• Respond to stakeholder requests for information
• Experience in project management, or a functional leadership role on large, complex operational, IT or business projects

Identify and recommend best practices, techniques and tools for project planning, execution, tracking, communication and key performance metrics for the department

• Share lessons learned and best practices across programs, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels
• Manage project administration, independently assess areas of improvement, and collect feedback for a lessons learned report
• Advise project leads and team members on project management best practices

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
• Must have Bachelor s degree or higher in business, science or technology field
• Must have five (5) years of work experience Operations (supply chain, manufacturing, order management, engineering, procurement, finance, technical (R&D), EHS, regulatory, sales and marketing functions, and support IT systems
• Must have experience with project management methodology, tools and techniques
• Must have experience with project scheduling and monitoring tools
• Must have experience with process mapping and implementation
• Must have experience with transactional lean principles and techniques
• Must have experience with Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio

Preferred

Qualification:

• Have a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Have experience supporting large or complex multi-functional and multi-divisional projects, including business or system integrations, acquisitions or rationalizations