Overview
Skills
Job Details
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