Note: Program manager who has managed setting up a DC before. He should be able to manage the budget, manage the vendor who is setting up the physical DC, and should be able liaison with the business.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the project team (developers, QA, business partners)
- Develop and execute resource and project plans, staff the project team accordingly, and track the progress of tasks and milestones
- Ensure adherence to IT Project Management Methodology
- Manage the project budget, purchase orders, and invoices
- Create and gain approval of the Project Charter; manage project scope and change requests
- Identify, mitigate, escalate and communicate issues and risk
- Partner with the Business Analyst to coordinate and/or lead user discovery sessions and project team meetings to gather and organize project business requirements and use cases on assigned projects
- Identify and present innovative solutions to improve cross-functional processes and operational efficiency
- Work with project leaders and architects to determine the right technical solutions that meet the business requirements
- Work closely with the quality assurance team to make certain the correct testing methodology/tools/reporting is used, focusing on requirements and user test methodology to ensure fulfillment of business requirements and IT quality, architectural, and security standards
- Oversee the development of change management strategy, including training documentation and classes, if needed
Qualifications:
- 7+ years experience as a Project Manager/Program Manager
- Experience with managing projects for WMS implementation, (Manhattan Active WM preferred)
- Experience managing migration projects from PkMS to latest WMS versions.
- Strong project management skills, ability to lead small projects and initiatives or requirements/process/testing aspects of larger projects with minimal oversight
- Ability to lead business and IT associates with strong interpersonal skills, including collaboration, facilitation, leadership, and negotiation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate communications between and among highly experienced business and IT associates
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to break down and effectively communicate complex business and technical processes, problems, and issues
- Excellent planning and organizational skills; capable of multi-tasking across several projects