Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager - Manhattan Associates implementation

Duration: 9 Months Contract with Possibility of extension

Location: Lansing, MI 48909 (100% Work from home)

Desired skills: Cybersecurity and Manhattan experience.

Job Description:

• The Project Manager will lead critical technology initiatives with a primary focus on Cybersecurity and Manhattan Associates (WMS / Supply Chain) implementations.
• This role requires ensuring successful delivery within defined scope, budget, and schedule while effectively managing risks, dependencies, and vendor partnerships.
• The PM will oversee projects with multiple team integration points, driving schedules, costs, and quality with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
• By leveraging technical expertise, proven best practices, and organizational knowledge, the Project Manager will anticipate challenges, mitigate risks, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.

Responsibilities Include, But Not Limited To:

• Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.
• Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.
• Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues
• Analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.
• Develops project plans and manages effective execution of the initiatives.
• Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.
• Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.
• Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.
• Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.
• Frequently interacts with business area management, vendors, consultants and other contractors.
• Must be willing to travel up to 15 percent of the time. Performs related duties as assigned.

Experience/Skill Requirements:

• Excellent relationship building skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Good group presentation skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good mathematical skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent leadership skills
• Good staff development skills
• Knowledge of computers to operative effectively with computer hardware such as general mainframe, midrange, network and desktop technologies; computer software includes application development lifecycle, MS Office Suite, Outlook

Additional Experience / Skills to Screen:

• Manhattan Associates supply chain implementations, ideally with focus on WMS
• Coordinate multiple teams, including external vendors, through planning, design, build, test, and deployment
• Excellent project / program financial skills, including tracking vendor invoices
• Tools: Clarity, Jira, MS Project

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