Project Manager

Role: Project Manager
Location: Remote
Duration: Long-Term
Experience Required: 9+ Years

***Must have retail supply chain experience

***Must have OMS application experience

Looking for a Project Manager with IT Project Lead with a focus on implementation of a Wholesale OMS (Order Management System) application.

Will work under minimal supervision to plan, direct and coordinate activities of an application project to ensure goals and objectives of the project are accomplished within prescribed timeframe and budgetary parameters.

This will be a six month contract with possible extensions

Ideally, this is a hybrid position to facilitate with the team and colleagues in-person at our Southern Maine location 3 days a week and work from home the other 2 days, for local candidates. Remote candidates will be considered. Candidates must have recent, real-world project management and Lead type experience.

Responsibilities:

Communication and Presentation
Keeps stakeholders, including management, informed of progress to goal; negotiate adjustments to the schedule and resources to ensure overall quality of completed project
Functions as central point for all project communications
Leverages most effective means of communication based on situation/urgency

Oversight of Project Governance
Partners with project business lead aligning on business responsibilities and management of those responsibilities as part of the project plan, including but not limited to: requirements, configuration, test case development and user acceptance testing, training and implementation.
In alignment with the business lead, they will facilitate alignment with sponsor and stakeholder groups that support/influence the Sponsor and Stakeholders.
Develops and delivers presentation content to drive understanding and alignment across Team and Project Sponsors (Governance structure).

Vendor Management
Collaborates to develop a positive relationship between our client and vendor(s) to define project deliverables and ensure successful delivery.
Ensures vendor is meeting all project commitments and escalates, as appropriate, when vendor obligations are not being met.
Tracks and maintains vendor costs.

Risk Management
Identifies & analyzes project risks to determine highest potential risk exposure and mitigation strategies to avoid and/or manage risk.
Identifies & focuses resolution of issues and risks using appropriate levels of escalation considering impact to scope, schedule, budget or quality.

Project Detail and Schedules
Develops a project work breakdown structure
Develops and manages a project schedule/timeline using approved Project Management tools (Jira, SharePoint, etc.)
Develops, monitors, and manages the project staffing plan and resource allocations approved by resource managers
Determines Resource Assignments with task estimates (ETC's)
Use negotiation skills to balance completing work with resources needed to achieve project success

Project Financials
Develops a project budget and track actual and forecasts monthly
Manage project budget in Excel and Work Otter for financials and resource allocation

Skills & Qualifications:
Strong project management skills 3 to 5 years of experience managing IT efforts.
Management of teams with members working in multiple locations.
Experience structuring work into workstreams within a project.
Strong applied use of PM tools/techniques (planning, risk management, budgeting, cost control, assessment, develop & management of Jira board, leading project meetings etc.).
Experience with vendor management.
Excellent communication skills (oral and written), English-language skills, facilitation skills, etc. and ability to represent work at all levels of the organization (up to Executive levels).
Excellent people skills developing strong relationships, building a trusting team environment, and ability to listen & translate into actionable plans.

Experience with the following is desired, but not mandatory:
Cloud Platforms in an omni-channel retail environment.
Prism PPM, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
Understand business process transformation and change management practices.