Project Manager

Duration: Multi-year contract

Location: Remote, Midwest-based; quarterly onsite visits required

Must-Haves

• 5–8 years of experience managing cross-functional IT projects from planning through implementation, launch, and stabilization.
• Experience coordinating multiple delivery teams and business stakeholders in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies, including coordinating teams using different delivery approaches.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, dependencies, RAID logs, scope changes, action items, and launch readiness.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to create concise, executive-ready status reports and translate team updates into a clear project-level view.
• Strong facilitation, organization, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; ability to influence without formal authority.
• Proficiency with Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint for planning, collaboration, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub to track delivery progress, milestones, dependencies, and work items.
• Experience developing or interpreting Power BI dashboards and delivery reports.

Plusses

• Retail, e-commerce, omnichannel fulfillment, or store technology experience strongly preferred.
• PMP certification.

Day-to-Day

• Coordinate a Ship to Home initiative across digital, store technology, and merchandising IT teams.
• Develop and maintain an integrated project plan connecting team milestones, schedules, and dependencies.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning, status, risk, and decision-making meetings; document decisions, owners, and due dates.
• Track scope, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and action items; escalate blockers as needed.
• Prepare leadership updates highlighting progress, upcoming milestones, decisions, and delivery concerns.
• Align business and technical requirements, implementation sequencing, testing, communications, training, and launch criteria.
• Manage change-control activities by documenting proposed changes, assessing cross-team impacts, and routing decisions to appropriate stakeholders.
• Drive timely decisions and follow through on action items while technical and functional leads retain ownership of their deliverables.
• Coordinate launch-readiness reviews, post-launch stabilization, and operational handoff.