Sonoma Consulting provides the highest quality service and support to our clients and consultants. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
Job DescriptionPosition Title(s): Project Manager
Position Description: Mid-level experienced PM; accountable for standard PM accountabilities & activities: strong communication & facilitation skills, project scoping, planning, facilitation, risk & issue management; project financials, etc
Responsibilities:
∙Managing business teams, guiding them through the requirements gathering and system configuration efforts. Additionally, there are change management, training and other components to be developed and executed.
∙Managing the external vendor tasks including detailed requirements, system configuration, integrations with LE systems, testing, training, and post-implementation support.
∙Managing the internal Lands’ End IT team. There will be a Technical Lead assigned to help identify integration tasks for the software tool. The PM will be responsible for guiding this person and the developers to ensure clean data integrations are completed in a timely manner.
Skills and Requirements:
∙Proven success in a fast-paced environment. Nice to have: Retail/Consumer Goods industry experience
∙Prior experience with package solution implementation upgrades & vendor engagement
∙Proven ability to effectively lead projects from inception through to implementation
∙Experience with executive communications and interactions
∙Excellent listening, verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills
∙Demonstrated ability to facilitate groups/teams to include planning, presentations and moderation
∙Effectively able to solicit information for appropriate sources
∙Demonstrated ability to analyze information, solve problems and adapt to different work environments
∙Demonstrated effective planning and organizational skills through previous work assignments
∙Ability to negotiate for resources, budget dollars and contracts for projects
∙Expert use of widely used office & project based software tools
QualificationsProject Manager, Project Coordinator, KPI, Retail, Packaging, Vendor management, Risk management, Issue Management,
Additional InformationJava, J2EE, JSP, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Struts Framework, XML, Web Services, SOAP, Knowledge of the Healthcare Industry would be good to have
Skills Required
- Proven ability to lead projects from inception through implementation
- Experience managing business teams and guiding requirements gathering and system configuration
- Prior experience with package solution implementations/upgrades and vendor engagement
- Experience managing integrations, testing, training, and post-implementation support
- Strong communication, facilitation, presentation and interpersonal skills; executive communications experience
- Demonstrated planning, organizational skills, and risk & issue management
- Ability to negotiate for resources, budgets and contracts
- Expert use of common office and project-based software tools
- Retail/Consumer Goods industry experience
- Knowledge of the Healthcare industry
- Familiarity with Java, J2EE, JSP, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Struts, XML, Web Services, SOAP
What We Do
Sonoma Consulting Inc. is a national IT consulting and executive search firm founded in 2011 by Mark McGee. The company operates through two business divisions—IT Consulting Services and Executive Search—serving approximately 150 national clients that range from entrepreneurial start-ups to Global Fortune 500 companies. It specializes in harmonizing systems and application or infrastructure development projects.
