Koch Industries

Senior IT Project Manager

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in leading cross-functional projects
  • Proven ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority
  • Strong understanding of project management frameworks and methodologies
  • Demonstrated experience in managing project deliverables, scope, and budget
  • Excellent communication skills tailored to diverse audiences
  • Ability to adapt to evolving business needs and changes
  • Experience translating technical concepts for stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex projects from initiation to implementation
  • Establish project governance structures and execution strategies
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope and success metrics
  • Develop comprehensive project plans including budgets and timelines
  • Facilitate decision-making and evaluate risk trade-offs
  • Influence cross-functional teams to ensure accountability and execution
  • Anticipate challenges and remove obstacles in a dynamic environment
  • Communicate project status, risks, and strategic recommendations effectively
  • Drive continuous improvement of project delivery and team dynamics
  • Foster a culture of collaboration and value creation within teams

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings account options
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption support available
  • Focus on overall employee wellbeing and support
Full Job Description
Your Job

KBX is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive strategic business outcomes. This role is responsible for aligning stakeholders, managing risk, influencing decisions, and ensuring successful delivery of projects that create long-term value for the organization.

You will serve as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, bring structure to ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and guide teams through complex decisions. Success in this role requires strong leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence without direct authority while balancing competing priorities and organizational objectives.

What You Will Do

  • Lead complex, cross-functional projects and initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment to business objectives and strategic priorities.
  • Establish project governance, execution strategies, and stakeholder alignment to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to define scope, priorities, success measures, and expected value.
  • Develop and manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
  • Facilitate decision-making by identifying trade-offs, evaluating risks, and providing recommendations to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Influence and align cross-functional teams, vendors, and business partners to drive execution and accountability.
  • Anticipate obstacles, proactively remove roadblocks, and navigate competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
  • Communicate project health, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance project delivery practices, team effectiveness, and business outcomes.
  • Promote a culture of collaboration, ownership, and value creation across project teams.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience leading projects and initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, teams, and business functions
  • Experience influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across groups
  • Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and deliverables
  • Experience communicating project strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Experience leading initiatives through ambiguity, organizational change, or evolving business requirements
  • Experience applying various project management frameworks, methodologies, and tools to achieve business outcomes
  • Experience learning a new business, technical, or operational topic within a short timeframe
  • Experience developing communications for multiple stakeholder groups requiring different messaging approaches
  • Experience translating technical concepts or project impacts into communications that enable stakeholder understanding and decision-making


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience leading enterprise-wide initiatives or programs
  • Experience partnering directly with senior leaders to prioritize work, resolve issues, and drive strategic outcomes
  • Experience supporting business transformation, process improvement, integration, or merger and acquisition initiatives
  • Experience managing external vendors, consultants, or strategic partners
  • Experience influencing project governance, portfolio planning, or resource prioritization decisions
  • Experience within transportation, logistics, supply chain, or technology-focused environments
  • Experience identifying and implementing opportunities that improve organizational effectiveness and scalability


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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