Associate Director Strategic Project Manager (Supply Chain/Manufacturing)

The Clorox Company • Alpharetta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director – Strategic Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, high-impact projects (Enterprise, Functional, or Business Unit) from initiation through execution and closure. This role ensures delivery of business requirements by driving planning, resource alignment, risk mitigation, execution discipline, and stakeholder communication. Beyond project delivery, this role brings strategic thinking, digital and AI fluency, adaptive leadership, and change enablement to ensure projects achieve sustained business outcomes and support Clorox’s competitiveness, growth, innovation, and cost-effectiveness. In this role, you will: Project Leadership & Execution Excellence Lead end-to-end project planning, including scoping, goal setting, roadmap creation, milestone development, and resource allocation. Drive execution discipline by converting strategies and plans into action, maintaining schedule, scope, cost, quality, and benefits realization. Apply strategic and systems thinking to ensure alignment with enterprise, functional, and business unit priorities; understand cross-functional dependencies, trade-offs, and downstream impacts. Demonstrate decision-making under uncertainty, making timely and informed choices using data, judgment, and experience while knowing when to pivot, escalate, or pause. Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks proactively to minimize disruption and maintain delivery commitments. Lead problem-solving efforts by anticipating obstacles early and acting decisively with high ownership and accountability. Quality Control: Ensuring project deliverables meet requirements. Problem Solving: Identifying and resolving project challenges, making timely decisions to overcome obstacles. Leverage strong digital acumen to operate effectively within modern, cloud-based collaboration, workflow, and dashboard environments. Apply data literacy to interpret insights, pressure-test assumptions, and support planning/ Demonstrate a technology-enablement mindset, continuously assessing tools for productivity and effectiveness while avoiding unnecessary complexity or tool worship. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement Assemble and lead cross-functional project teams, delegating effectively, providing clarity, and inspiring high performance. Use stakeholder intelligence and influence to build trust, navigate organizational dynamics, align priorities, and resolve conflicts. Demonstrate adaptive leadership and emotional intelligence—adjusting leadership approaches to context, fostering psychological safety, and coaching team members to elevate performance. Communicate progress, risks, financial impacts, and critical decisions clearly and consistently to sponsors, executives, and stakeholders. Community of Practice and External Perspective Sense and explore external benchmarks, capabilities, trends, best practices, digital/AI applications and competitive intelligence for incorporation into the Project Management CoP.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive project management experience spanning multiple project types (including Innovation, Cost Savings, Operations, and Strategic) with increasing responsibility, scope and complexity and a demonstrated track record of success.
• Bachelor's degree is a must, MBA is highly desirable.
• Must have a background with Supply Chain, Operations, or Consumer Packaged Goods.
• Demonstrated experience in both Waterfall and Agile project approaches is a MUST.
• Able to identify and develop strategic and tactical options for project execution.
• Collaborate and influence others ranging from peers, cross-functional stakeholders or senior executives to accomplish team objectives.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to draw conclusions from complex data and information.
• Ability to simplify and communicate clearly and effectively in both written and verbal forms to all stakeholders
• Excellent understanding of business financials and ability to articulate financial impacts to supply chain choices and risks
• Flexibility manifesting in ability to manage and prioritize planned and unplanned work
• Drive and commitment to deliver complex projects and initiatives on time, on budget, and with solutions that meet and exceed business requirements
• Deep knowledge of end-to-end business and supply chain interdependencies
• Curiosity that manifests in ongoing development and learning about external environment
• Lead with excellence by consistently demonstrating attributes from the Clorox leadership model and values

Nice To Haves

• MBA is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project planning, including scoping, goal setting, roadmap creation, milestone development, and resource allocation.
• Drive execution discipline by converting strategies and plans into action, maintaining schedule, scope, cost, quality, and benefits realization.
• Apply strategic and systems thinking to ensure alignment with enterprise, functional, and business unit priorities; understand cross-functional dependencies, trade-offs, and downstream impacts.
• Demonstrate decision-making under uncertainty, making timely and informed choices using data, judgment, and experience while knowing when to pivot, escalate, or pause.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks proactively to minimize disruption and maintain delivery commitments.
• Lead problem-solving efforts by anticipating obstacles early and acting decisively with high ownership and accountability.
• Assemble and lead cross-functional project teams, delegating effectively, providing clarity, and inspiring high performance.
• Use stakeholder intelligence and influence to build trust, navigate organizational dynamics, align priorities, and resolve conflicts.
• Demonstrate adaptive leadership and emotional intelligence—adjusting leadership approaches to context, fostering psychological safety, and coaching team members to elevate performance.
• Communicate progress, risks, financial impacts, and critical decisions clearly and consistently to sponsors, executives, and stakeholders.
• Sense and explore external benchmarks, capabilities, trends, best practices, digital/AI applications and competitive intelligence for incorporation into the Project Management CoP.

Benefits

• comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs
• robust health plans
• a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
• flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
• inclusive fertility/adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level