[Remote] Project Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LG&P creates engaging retail experiences for leading global brands. The Project Manager will plan, execute, monitor, and deliver multiple complex programs while managing timelines, quality, risks, budgets, communications, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with senior management to define project scope, goals, and deliverables
- Estimate and secure the resources (materials, personnel, vendor support, etc.) needed to achieve project goals
- Define project success criteria and disseminate them to relevant parties/departments throughout the project life cycle
- Develop detailed, formal project plans, including internal costing, customer estimates, and timelines
- Engage all cross-functional teams and outside stakeholders to ensure project success
- Monitor and manage changes in project scope with a risk management plan
- Identify potential problems that may affect defined deliverables
- Develop and implement contingency plans
- Manage internal and external project communications
- Develop and distribute status reports and other internal & external reporting documents
- Develop and monitor project development budgets
- Assure projects come in on budget, on-time, and deliver defined margin / ROI
- Identify and resolve variances to budgets and/or timelines
- Develop and manage project timelines (internal and external)
- Identify key milestones
- Manage project dependencies and critical path
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
- Occasional participation in brand and retail installs, as well as brand and retail customer meetings/reviews
- Assist with the mentoring/training of other members of the Project Management team when requested
Skills
- • Big picture, strategic decisions, well thought out and analyzed
- • Critical thinking with excellent organization skills
- • Proven working knowledge of project management methodologies
- • Self-motivated with strong analytical ability and attention to detail
- • Excellent time management skills
- • Relationship building skills, with vendors and associates
- • Strong negotiation skills
- • Creative mindset for troubleshooting situations
- • Flexible, solution-based, and adaptable to changing circumstances
- • Strong leadership and strong solution-based decision-making skills
- • Ability to travel, as necessary both domestically and internationally
- • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office skills, including Excel
- • 3+ years of related experience
- • Independent
- • Assertive
- • Self-confident
- • Manage multiple priorities
- • Take the initiative
- • Freedom to take charge of your own assignments
- • See the results of your work
- • Driven to get things done
- • Positive response to pressure
- • Task-oriented
- • Critical & creative thinker
- • Inquiring mind
- • Problem solver
Benefits
- Collaborative team environment
- Opportunity to innovate, learn, and grow
- Mentoring/training of other members of the Project Management team when requested
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