Project Manager

The Project Manager of Construction/Launch Team will serve as the lead for multiple construction projects including new fulfillment centers site renovations, process improvement and new business strategies. The ideal candidate should have a deep functional understanding of warehouse operations and flow, facility design and CAD drawings, strong interpersonal/leadership skills, and material handling system installations that will be used in performing these tasks. Required to establish projects expectations, plan development, communications/coordination’s, benchmark attainment, tracking, to ensure goals/timelines are met. The Project Manager will combine deep operational expertise with strong project management skills to ensure timely, on-budget project delivery while maintaining the highest standards of quality and operational efficiency. This includes detailed follow-up after launch, robust lessons learned analysis, and continuous improvement of the launch process.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning:
• Prepare, publish, distribute and maintain a project timeline with metrics for all cross-functional partners.
• Build bid packages, negotiate any revisions to vendor bids, and facilitates project scope changes.
• Prepare a concise and detailed commissioning plan and acceptance testing, leading commissioning activities of vendors and ensures operations acceptance.
• Project Execution:
• Monitor project progress, incorporate resolutions to potential project delays and communicates project status to leadership on a timely basis.
• Ensure smooth and consistent communication and exchanges of data between operations, vendors, and internal Team Members.
• Monitor fulfillment of contract requirements to ensure quality and timeliness of services/deliverables.
• Travel as a project manager is required and depending on the current project assignment(s) could range up to 75%.

Qualifications:

• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• PMP or other relevant project management certification is preferred.
• Experience:
• Minimum of 3-5 years of project management experience, preferably within a start-up or high-growth environment.
• Proven track record of efficiently leading projects from initiation to completion.
• Skills:
• Strong analytics and communications background (e.g., math, statistics, quantitative methods, and verbal and writing proficiency)
• Perform business requirements analysis and design
• Act as the primary liaison between operations leadership and vendors
• Perform gap analysis between physical processes and future operations needs and have the ability to vet project requests and prioritize them accordingly
• Build structured prioritization and change management processes
• Identify and recommend operations improvement opportunities to meet ever increasing business requirements
• Comprehensive computer application skills – Office, Project, CAD
• Knowledgeable of contract language and accounting functions
• Cross functional team management experience
• Must have experience and knowledge of warehouse operations, manufacturing and/or materials handling systems
• Identify and recommend operations improvement opportunities to meet ever increasing business requirements
• Comprehensive computer application skills – Office, Project, CAD
• Knowledgeable of contract language and accounting functions
• Cross functional team management experience
• Must have experience and knowledge of warehouse operations, manufacturing and/or materials handling systems