Project Manager

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Company Overview

For more than 70 years, TBC Corporation has been a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers and distributors of automotive replacement tires through wholesale operations. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at nearly 470 franchised tire and automotive service centers under the award-winning Big O Tires® brand. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

With $5 billion in revenue and more than 3,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers and with proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018, Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.

• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

The Project Manager (PM) plays a critical role in driving the successful execution of strategic and enterprise projects. Leads cross-functional project teams, managing scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring delivery against defined objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of projects within assigned portfolios
• Develop detailed project plans, charters, schedules, and communication plans
• Manage project scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and budgets using standard templates and tools
• Facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration and decision making
• Track progress, remove barriers, and escalate issues to Leadership as appropriate
• Ensure all projects follow defined intake, governance, and reporting requirements
• Provide accurate project updates through dashboards, status reports, and executive summaries

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support benefit tracking and post-project reviews to confirm value realization
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across business functions
• Serve as the primary communication point for project sponsors, team members, and stakeholders
• Manage expectations through proactive communication and transparency
• Apply lessons learned and feedback to continuously improve project execution and governance
• Contribute to the PM Center of Excellence (COE) initiatives
• Coach business leads and team members on PM best practices and change adoption
• Other duties as assigned.

Continued Responsibilities

Added Responsibilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology, or other related field, required
• 3-5 years of project management experience
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or related certification preferred
• Experience managing cross-functional or enterprise projects with measurable impact
• Strong project management discipline
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to analyze and synthesize information and present project updates
• Financial acumen-ability to understand and track project budgets and benefits
• Proficiency with project management and reporting tools (Microsoft Planner, Power BI, other)
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent initiatives
• Bilingual in Spanish /English is a plus

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!

Mission Critical Competencies

TBC seeks team members who excel in demonstrating our critical competencies to drive organizational capability. In this spirit we view the following as mission critical for this role:

• Strategic Mindset: seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Change Management: effective Sponsorship, Change Agent and influencing skills. Adaptive, agile, flexible, open minded. Proven ability to build cross-functional commitment, lead, simplify and scale complex dynamic organizations through transformational change.