Job Description
The ideal candidate possesses intellectual curiosity, creativity, strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, and an ability to influence business and technical leaders in a dynamic environment as well as a strong desire to contribute to Zones’ continued success. This person will scope and execute initiatives by partnering with PMO Management, senior project managers, stakeholders to understand and prioritize initiatives to improve organization performance. Improvement may constitute increased speed, enhanced efficiency, lower cost, higher revenue, or a combination of all.
Strategies And Essential Functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Project Management
- Manages individual projects or components of large projects, schedules, deliverables and coordinates with subject matter experts internally and external customers
- Participates in project activities and meetings, understands dependencies, and manages timelines, schedules & risks
- Drive all project requirements through demand planning tools (Kinaxis) including order processing and schedule management with Client and Internal changes.
- Accountable for project inventory and billing. Drive to manage projects by utilizing customer owned inventory model.
Demand planning and analytics
- Identify workflows/procedures that require enhancement/streamlining and identify ways to make them more effective
- Drive all project demand plans and schedule inputs through Kinaxis
- Collaborate on inventory lead times to ensure alignment to project schedule and delivery timelines
Implementation
- Responsible for project turnover and start-up to project delivery stakeholders. Coordinate engagement of partner resources and subject matter experts across multiple projects & organizational functions
- Accountable for deliverables according to project scope as documented in Statements of Work.
- Responsible for project close out and reporting on project health and risks. Formulate and summarize findings ia well-organized presentations to senior management; effectively summarize key information (e.g. cost savings, risk, efficiency improvements, accountability metrics, etc.)