Business Project Manager (Not Technical Or It)

Job Description

Position Summary : Plan, execute, acquire resources, and coordinate efforts of cross-functional team members to deliver projects according to timelines and within budget. Manage all necessary status and escalation communication throughout the quality of deliverables to support management requirements.

Essential Functions : Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Manage multiple projects with definitive timelines, ensuring execution to expectations, and timelines are met
• Develop and maintain project plans in accordance with consultant recommendations to ensure that sustainable improvements are implemented
• Clearly communicate project status updates, deliverables, standards, expectations, results, etc. to diverse groups of individuals at all levels of the organization
• Facilitate analysis, IT and test coordination as applicable, and change management execution
• Partner with ops teams, engineering, and IT to implement process improvements and enhancements, training and communicating with all team members
• Document and benchmark best practices in implementation process
• Provide process documentation
• Maintain and communicate operational KPIs and other metrics reflecting the impacts of the system implementation
• Prepare and maintain reporting to the appointed steering committee

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, project management, supply chain or related field strongly preferred or commensurate education, training and experience required
• Minimum 4 years project management experience
• High degree of proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint), web-based and Windows based software
• Working knowledge of project management software such as MS Project, SAP, and AS400
• Strong project management skills, ideally based on the launch of new business platforms
• High level of accountability, strong work ethic, proven ability to take ownership of responsibilities
• Self-motivated with ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines within an ever-changing, fast-paced environment
• Excellent professional level written and verbal communication skills - ability to interface and communicate effectively with multiple functional groups, geographic regions/cultures, different levels of internal and external organizations
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience related to supply chain, distribution or logistics management strongly preferred
• Strong entrepreneurial and strategic thinker with consistent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Exceptional relationship building skills with the ability to earn the trust and confidence of customers and stakeholders (internal/external)
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interact with various work behavior styles and elicit cooperation from a diverse group, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Solid negotiation and collaboration skills - able to influence outcomes and bring initiatives to successful completion
• PMP Preferred

Additional Information

Why work with Vantiva?

• A culture of innovation, collaboration and teamwork
• Training and opportunities to grow within the company
• Medical, dental, vision benefits (comprehensive coverage with low premiums)
• 401k w/ employer match and life insurance at no cost to our employees
• Vacation, paid holidays, sick time and employee discounts
• Discounted homeowner’s, renters', pet, and car insurance

** Work Environment/Physical Requirements**

This position operates in a professional office environment.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate (verbal/written), converse with and exchange information with others. The employee is frequently required to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time; occasionally move between their workspace and office machinery. The person in this position must operate a computer and other office machinery such as a copy machine, printer, calculator; pull/retrieve/file documents in a filing cabinet. May need to position oneself to move between tight, high, or low spaces. Seeing abilities required by this job include detecting/identifying/recognizing/inspecting objects close to the employee, within a distance, peripherally, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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