Donaldson Company is looking for a Supply Chain Project Manager to provide strategic leadership in evaluating, optimizing, and executing global manufacturing and sourcing strategies. You will strengthen operational excellence, cost competitiveness, and supply chain resilience while driving enterprise-level decision-making and acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
What You'll Do
- Shape and execute global sourcing and manufacturing strategies that optimize cost, performance, and competitiveness.
- Drive initiatives that enhance profitability, efficiency, and sourcing resilience through data-driven insights.
- Lead high-impact, multi-region initiatives assessing manufacturing versus centralized sourcing strategies.
- Oversee delivery of complex projects and ensure integration of new products, systems, or sourcing processes.
- Ensure alignment across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, procurement, and operations.
- Serve as the central liaison between executive sponsors, global business units, and technical stakeholders.
- Direct advanced cost and value modeling to assess total cost of ownership and lifecycle performance.
- Lead governance forums to track program progress, risks, and financial performance against strategic KPIs.
- Lead forecasting and revenue recognition frameworks to improve accuracy and transparency.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and high performance.
- Benchmark organizational performance against industry standards to sustain competitive advantage.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- 3-5 years in a Supply Chain Manager role.
- 5+ years of experience in global supply chain or manufacturing strategy, typically within senior project/program management.
- Proven success leading large-scale, multi-site projects with significant business and financial impact.
- Demonstrated ability to influence at the executive level and manage complex stakeholder networks.
- Strategic mindset with an enterprise perspective.
- Strong knowledge of financial analysis and risk management.
Nice to Have
- PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification.
- Lean Six Sigma or similar process improvement qualification.
Team & Environment
This role is part of the Industrial Solutions division.
Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law.





