Project Manager PMP

Required Skills/Experience: 

•             Executive presence and effective communication

o             Must be able to clearly articulate project updates to stakeholders and members of the senior leadership team

o             Must possess a strong presence with confidence and polish

o             Excellent planning and coordination skills

•             Waterfall and Agile Methodology

o             Must have strong experience running waterfall, agile and hybrid projects, aligning processes, deliverables and project metrics/dashboards/reports as needed

o             Experience with various dependent projects potentially being executed with different methodologies

§             Vendor Management

o             Experience with Vendor contracts management

o             Experience with and Vendor package implementations

o             Strong experience in managing internal, external and hybrid teams

§             Technical

o             Prior experience managing technology roadmap projects

o             General knowledge and understanding of the technology field and technology projects

·                   Understanding of core infrastructure 

·                   In depth, hands-on knowledge of at least one industry leading retail ERP implantation, multi-country, multi-language, multi-currency ERP implementation

Key Responsibilities:

•             Manage projects that involve multiple vendors and complex integrations

•             Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables

•             Develop and track full scale project plans including external integration points and dependencies

•             Establish and coordinate project teams

•             Direct and oversee the project team

•             Define project tasks and manage project resource allocation

•             Manage project budgets

•             Identify project risks and issues and develop and execute mitigation plans

•             Manage project changes to achieve project goals

•             Monitor and report project status to all stakeholders

•             Provide guidance and direction to external vendors as applicable

•             Participate in quality audits

•             Develop Requests for Information/ Proposals (RFI/RFP) for external services as applicable

•             Demonstrate leadership, and strong organizational, presentation and communication skills

Education and Experience:

•             Blue Yonder Solution or Manhattan solution  experience a  BIG plus

•             Bachelor’s Degree or higher required

•             Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications required (certifications must be active!!!)

•             Minimum 8 years of project/program management experience

•             Experience with vendor management and vendor package implementations (Salesforce Implementation experience)

•             Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project

•             Experience with Microsoft Project Server, ServiceNow, and Jira a plus

•             Strong technical background a plus

•             Certification or a degree in computer science, information systems or engineering would be a plus