Retail System Assistant PM

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Our client located in Nassau County that specialized in Retail Marketplace, is seeking to add to their growing staff an A Retail System Assistant Project Manager that communicates externally with clients, and internally with various departments' personnel and manages the fulfillment of client implementation systems requests for all existing and new clients.
Responsibilities:
Assist project teams and assist in managing activities associated with projects that are typically cross-department or organizational entity-wide in scope. Projects range from simple to technical in nature and may last any where from a week to six months.
Work closely with the department heads, finance group and the Executive team to establish the scope and goals of the project and provide leadership for the definition and delivery of project initiatives
Develop key project documentation to thoroughly understand what staff member(s) and or consultant(s) are needed to complete projects - e.g., statements-of-work, change orders, project plans, issues list, risk management lists, status reports, meeting agendas, post-mortem reports, etc.
Work with the cross functional teams to identify, articulate, and assist in managing project risks and issues.
Effectively communicate and advise the management team of project statuses which includes inter project dependencies, external project dependencies, & realistic timelines for completion.
Execute project plans working with team members to understand problems, focus on bringing issues to resolution, and escalate as necessary to meet timelines.
Responsible for managing the queue of up coming projects.
Must be metrics driven and have experience tracking metrics and deliverables
Must have experience with resource management tool and build all resource needs within master project outline.
Required Skills:
3-5 years experience in IT Project Management.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other related scientific or technical discipline.
Retail Experience STRONGLY desired
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly preferred.
Strong understanding of the full SDLC and experience with formal SDLC Methodologies
Experience with project estimating, scheduling/planning and tracking methods
Experience performing risk and issue management including strategies related to identifying risks, tracking and mitigating risks
Hands on experience using PM Tools to manage project execution (MS Project)
Gotham Technology
Montvale, NJ
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