Project Manager

About Textile Exchange  

Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving beneficial outcomes for climate and nature across the fashion, apparel, and textile industry. We guide a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and material producers towards more purposeful production, right from the start of the supply chain.  

By 2030, our goal is to guide the industry to drive a 45% reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions within fiber and raw material production. To get there, we are keeping our focus holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too. 

For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to positive impact. That’s why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions, and a driven community.  

To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org.  

Joining our team 

We are a globally distributed, fully remote team spanning over 20 countries and united by our commitment to driving positive change in the fashion, apparel, and textile industry.  

We leverage our collective strengths to tackle climate challenges and advance key environmental goals. Collaborating with farming groups, processors, brands, retailers, and environmental experts worldwide, we address critical issues shaping the future of this industry. 

Joining our team means becoming part of a cutting-edge global non-profit dedicated to amplifying impact. Textile Exchange offers competitive compensation, including paid time off, discretionary annual bonuses, learning opportunities, and more.  

Like all roles within our organization, this position is remote, reflecting our US-based yet fully global and home-based structure.  Candidates must be available to work across the United States and European time zones.

Job Summary

The Project Manager will be responsible for managing cross-functional projects, ensuring successful delivery and consistency across departments. The Project Manager will report directly to the Project Management Office Lead.  This role will organize and support day-to-day project activities such as scheduling meetings, creating meeting agendas, facilitating meetings, taking and sharing out notes and next steps, project scoping, cross-team/platform collaboration and coordination, workplan development, stakeholder engagement, and information sharing.  

Duties and Responsibilities 

•    Organize assigned projects using a standardized approach, including coordination of workstreams across key departments involved in the project. 
•    Ensure a high degree of visibility for stakeholders and decision-makers involved in the project, including briefings as needed for the Leadership Team and Board. 
•    Proactively identify, flag, and mitigate risks to the success of the project, relative to the scope of the position. 
•    Ensure consistency with and ongoing continuous improvement of established norms of project management at Textile Exchange, in collaboration with the Project Management Office Lead.  
•    Organize information and agendas and convene task teams, facilitate meetings, and other activities to coordinate cross-functional work and external input to deliver project milestones.  
•    Support the Chief Strategy Officer in identifying and prioritizing projects across the organization in alignment with the organization’s strategy.
•    Support and contribute to the Project Management Office as needed.
•    Assist in onboarding team members to PM processes and tools.
•    Oversee additional temporary project managers as needed to supplement  fixed team capacity.
•    Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

•    Minimum of five (5) years of Project Management experience.
•    Holds one or more of the following:  CMS, CAPM, PMI-ACP, Kanban Practitioner, PMP, and/or CAPM.
•    Proficient in Agile Methodology; Demonstrated experience in applying agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) in cross-functional team settings.
•    Comfortable using project management tools to run projects such as ClickUp, Asana, Monday and/or Jira.
•    Proven experience creating project charters, project plans, timelines, and milestones and ensuring projects stay on track.
•    Extensive experience identifying and removing impediments that hinder the work of the team.
•    Experience navigating complex projects with multiple dependencies that need a high level of oversight.
•    Experience fostering and developing healthy and high performing teams.
•    Proven ability to manage projects and collaborate effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed team environment.
•    Must be adaptable and comfortable responding to changes and evolving requirements in a dynamic project environment.
•    Required competencies include curiosity, self-motivation, solution oriented, highly collaborative, and exceptional emotional intelligence.
•    Must possess high attention to detail, high degree of organization, resourcefulness, and professionalism.
•    Willing to travel domestically and internationally for team meetings when required.
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preffered Requirments

•    3+ years of experience as a Scrum Master. 
•    Experience as a Delivery Manager.
•    Experience developing training materials and coaching team members.
•    Experience writing SOPs.
•    Extensive experience using ClickUp.
•    Proficient in using project management tools such as Asana, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and SalesForce.
•    Familiarity with voluntary sustainability standards, environmental compliance, or experience in the textile, fashion, or apparel industry.

Qualifications

•    Associate or bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

Employment Package

 •   Reports to: Lead, Project Management Office
 •   Full-Time Position, 40 Hours a Week
 •   Location: Virtual/Remote
 •   Annual Salary Range: $75,000 - $100,000 USD
 •   To be filled as soon as possible (start date to be agreed between both parties).
 •   Our salary structures are location-agnostic, ensuring equal pay for the same role, irrespective of location. Final employment offers are determined based on the role, candidate experience, education, and other relevant factors, but not on location. Offers will be presented in the local currency of the candidate's permanent residence. Benefits are tailored to the region of the candidate's permanent residence and align with Textile Exchange’s regional employment packages.
 •   To see if we hire in your country and for more information, please visit: https://remote.com/country-explorer

How to Apply   

Please apply here with your resume and a cover letter. 

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as they are submitted. Early application submission is strongly encouraged.    

If you have any pressing questions after completing your application, and meet the qualifications, please contact recruitment@textileexchange.org. 

Textile Exchange is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Compensation$75,000 - $100,000 USD