Project Manager Job GT Nexus Inc

Project Manager

Department : Professional Services
Location : Europe
Position Summary

The Project Manager takes on primary responsibility for working with customers to implement GT Nexus solutions, and therefore provides the daily contact with the customer as a liaison. Ultimately, the Project Manager directly and indirectly manages all project resources to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of contracted solutions. This position requires expertise in project management and excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ideal candidate will be comfortable interacting with customers, leading teams, and driving business process as well as technical work streams.

Scope of Work and Responsibilities:

Project managers may work on multiple projects at once and should be comfortable juggling and prioritizing a variety of tasks on each project. This position requires some travel – generally during the kickoff and solution design stages, and again during the training and rollout phases of work. Travel is limited to an average of 10% a Project Manager's time.

There are three core responsibilities for all Project Managers:

Management

• Managing resources against explicit project deliverables (driving day-to-day implementation work, focusing the team on deliverables and meeting deadlines, and working directly with customer end users and internal groups for the successful implementation)
• Conducting weekly status meetings between both the customer and the Implementation teams.
• Working closely with other internal groups (collaborate with Product Managers to define future functionality and prioritize enhancements, collaborate with Engineering to support feature development and fixes, and support the Sales team to ensure that customers are fully comfortable with the implementation methodology).
• Track the desired value areas of the solution against the implementation plan.

Administration

• Developing and managing the Project Plan.
• Managing project budgets vs. actual expenses
• Ensuring that the company's best practice methodology for implementation process and deliverables is utilized.
• Effective tracking and reporting of project activities.
• Hands-on work in delivering project tasks ranging from system configuration, business process documentation, training documentation and rollout, or other necessary project activities as required to deliver the solutions

Communication

• Understanding and managing customer expectations (Scope)
• Conducting internal and external meetings to brief on project status and action items.
• Communicating with team members on required work streams to be completed.

Job Requirements

• Previous project management experience – proven ability to drive a solution from start to finish (project management certifications are a plus).
• Existing detailed knowledge of supply chain & transportation business processes are desired
• Implementation experiences with Supply Chain Logistics software a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Able to facilitate compromise in balancing process change and technical change to deliver a working solution to customers.
• Working knowledge of business-to-business electronic communications (EDI, XML, etc.)
• Ability to create quality deliverables utilizing Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.
• Passion for contributing to a growing business and fostering a team atmosphere
• Bachelor's degree, international business focus desirable. Previous experience in implementations roles at a software company in the supply chain/transportation space is ideal.

How To Apply

Please send your resume and a one-page cover letter with salary expectations to staffing.europe@gtnexus.com.

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