IT Project Manager (App Dev/Automotive/Supply Chain/Data Warehouse)

IT Project Manager (App Dev/Automotive/Supply Chain/Data Warehouse) Location Torrance, CA (Hybrid 4 days/week onsite and 1 day/week remote)
Contract Duration June 2025 March 31, 2027
Travel 5% domestic travel (expenses will be reimbursed)

We are looking for an IT Project manager will support parts applications and administration efforts for various service parts procurement, order fulfilment, and WMS related projects for an automotive manufacturer. The initial project will be for the Supplier Collaboration project on the procurement side, related to EDI transactions for forecasting, purchase order, ASN (advanced shipment notice). This PM will focus heavily on Planning, Executing, and Closing Projects defining the project, building its comprehensive work plan, and managing to the budget. They will also be tasked with driving project progress while ensuring alignment with IT management. There will also be a focus on providing status reporting to IT and business management as well performing requirements analysis, design documentation, and testing.
The ideal candidate will be a project Manager with solid experiences in the Supply Chain Management area, preferably in the automotive/motorcycle service replacement parts, or other commodity products. This person should be experienced in managing and implementing SCM systems, with some mainframe-interface knowledge. One of the projects that this PM will work on is using the Blue Yonder system, but any other common SCM system experience will be fine (i.e. - Oracle, SAP, etc.).
Duties will include the following:

• Support multiple projects in the Automotive Parts Applications area.
• Plan, Execute, and Close Projects.
• Define the project, building its comprehensive work plan, and managing to the budget.
• Forecast, plan, and manage budget/schedule to ensure project is on track.
• Assemble project plans and teamwork assignments.
• Develop business cases and document project goals, required tasks and resources.
• Drive project progress while ensuring alignment with IT management.
• Track key project milestones and adjusting project plans and/or resources.
• Report on project status (weekly, monthly, quarterly) by providing status reporting to IT and business management.
• Create project and upper- level management presentations.
• Analyze and manage project risks/issues.
• When needed, perform requirements analysis, design documentation, testing.
  • Gather, refine, and validate complex business requirements, interdependencies, potential risks and issues.
  • Assist in the business process design or redesign and documentation as needed.
• Organize and facilitate meetings and workshops.
• Create and manage change requests, test plans and trainings.
• Coordinate communication with all areas of the enterprise that impacts the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed.

Required Skills and Expertise:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
• Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum
• 7 to 10 years of IT work experience
• 5+ years managing Application Development projects
• 5-8 years of Supply Chain Management related experience.
• Broader understanding of the entire supply chain processes from procurement to dealer order fulfilment, with some WMS experiences.
• Solid experiences in the Supply Chain Management area, preferably in the automotive/motorcycle service replacement parts, or other commodity products .
• Must have a good understanding of the overall supply chain management processes:
  • Forecasting/ordering to the suppliers and order fulfillment,
  • Inventory receiving, storage, and shipping (i.e. WMS)
  • Dealer/distributor ordering and fulfillment processes.
• Experienced in managing and implementing SCM systems (example Blue Yonder, Oracle, SAP), with some mainframe-interface knowledge.
• Experience in supporting applications related to automotive and/or parts
• Experience supporting an implementation of large-scale end-to-end supply chain system for automotive service parts or other consumer products, with integration into the mainframe environment.
• Experience in supply chain and warehouse operations
• Some knowledge of the following would be helpful:
  • EDI (electronic data interchange)
  • MFT (managed file transfer)
  • ETL (extract translate load) processes
• Strong analytical skills
• Familiarity with Clarity/Open Workbench
• Ability and willingness to perform business analysis tasks (requirements analysis, design documentation, testing) is required.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines across the enterprise.
• Understanding of technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.
• Technical aptitude of multi tier and cross platform architectures across the enterprise.
• Understanding in the information technology landscape stretching from infrastructure, network, client, server, emerging technology standards and trends.
• Experience with hybrid environments of both Waterfall and Agile (client is transitioning to Agile)

• Proficient in MS Project, and MS Office
• Exudes a positive attitude and works well in autonomy and ambiguity
• Advanced ability to perform the following:

• Oversee and manage large, complex, diverse, and strategic projects that impact the organization as a whole
• Manage costs and project budgets
• Managing schedules, resources and mitigating risks

• Understanding of technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong leadership skills.

Desired Skills and Expertise:

• SCM applications experience like Blue Yonder is preferred, but not a must.
• Automotive experience is preferred