For more than a century, Ben E. Keith Company has been a leader in fine food and premium beverage distribution, and we strive to consistently exceed our customers’ expectations.

Our Food Division is a complete broad line multi-state distributor, and our Beverage Division operates throughout the state of Texas as a proud distributor of Anheuser-Busch products, craft and import beer brands, spirits, and wine.

We are dedicated to the growth and success of our business, our customers, and our employees—continuing our commitment to delivering quality since 1906.

Position Summary

Seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our growing Project Management Office.  Candidates for this role will be responsible for leading complex technology projects across multiple domain areas. 

What You Will Do

• Organize and lead project teams in a hybrid scrum/waterfall environment.  You will facilitate daily stand-ups, organize work, resolve issues, remove blockers, and deliver projects on-time, on-budget, and with high quality.

• Establish project scope, objectives, priorities, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and definition of done.
• Document and manage project activities including business requirements, stories, epics, use cases, and test plans.
• Compile and report metrics to measure project progress and generate positive outcomes.

• Manage project risks and issues; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
• Assist with defining and championing ongoing process improvement initiatives supporting Project Management best practices, including scrum framework and waterfall best practices. 
• Lead system selection initiatives including development of vendor Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs).
• Engage, energize, mentor, and lead assigned project and product teams.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s Degree or comparable work experience.
• 5+ years of IT project management experience, managing multiple projects with varying levels of complexity.
• Strong project management skills including a demonstrated ability to plan, schedule, organize, coordinate, manage, evaluate, and adjust resources, work effort, and cost for projects of high complexity and risk.
• Business and technical acumen; ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the team in a professional manner. 
• Able to solve complex problems, manage ambiguity and adapt to unexpected change.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to make decisions quickly.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office applications (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Highly proficient with project management tools such as Jira Software, Confluence, Smartsheet, etc.
• Large scale project (ERP, WMS, BI/Analytics platform or similar) experience preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.

Ben E. Keith (BEK) Company is one of the largest food and beverage distributors in the United States. We are a family-owned business with a long-standing tradition of supporting the diverse communities in which we live and work. Our competitive employee benefits provide health and financial protection to our employees and their families.

We have sought to create an environment in which the contributions of each employee at Ben E. Keith are fully valued. This means more than simply treating one another with respect; it also means considering how all our people can positively impact the quality of the decisions we make about our business.

Here at Ben E. Keith, we recognize that our workforce reflects the increasingly diverse nature of our society, and we want to do all we can to take advantage of that diversity with both our external and internal customers. We believe our differences are also our strengths and we want to do all we can to use those strengths to find more creative solutions for the business challenges we face. Ben E. Keith is an equal employment opportunity, affirmative action employer. VEVRAA Federal Contractor