Director, Project Management
Turn your passion for collecting into a career at Collectors Universe. We're the leader in third-party authentication and grading services for high-value collectibles including trading cards (Professional Sports Authenticator), coins (Professional Coin Grading Services), video games (Wata), event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia. If you’re a collectibles enthusiast, or if you want to help us in leading the global expansion of the collectibles market through our values of integrity, teamwork, and innovation, we’d love to hear from you.
We are seeking a Director of Project Management to drive the overall project and program management function within Operations; providing leadership, coordination, strategic direction, and management of all PMO processes and functions. Working with a broad group of business, product and technology leaders, this individual will ensure prioritization and successful delivery of initiatives across the Operations team. Collectors Universe is experiencing tremendous growth, and to support this record volume and to achieve our long term objectives, we need to to build out new facilities and capabilities. These projects will include the optimization of new production facilities, reconfiguration, and optimization of existing operations, automation solutions, and supporting integration and integration of new businesses that come from organic growth or acquisitions.
This position reports to the COO and is based out of our California headquarters.
What You’ll Do
- Provide project leadership, management, and coordination amongst operations, Tech, HR, Real Estate, Finance and other cross functional, and 3rd party participants to accomplish optimization objectives through a defined timeline/critical path, active issue tracking, and meeting defined milestone dates
- Develop, monitor, and complete projects in line with opex and capex budgets, with a particular emphasis on the project development stage to maximize capital benefits while meeting operational and service objectives
- Develop and maintain project communication, meetings, documentation and status updates at the team, stakeholder, and executive steering levels
- Provide leadership and direction to the project management team to support business growth, with a focus on attracting, developing and retaining high performing talent and leveraging data to track and evaluate organizational performance
- Develop, maintain, and publish Ops multi-year, network capacity and optimization plan with input from operations, Business Development, Sales Divisions and Collectors Universe cross functional stakeholders
- Regular travel to Ops locations throughout the United States and abroad
Who You Are
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or other related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 10 years of experience in Ops network engineering, program management, and operational support functions, as well as production systems and deployment
- Complex project management experience in Ops design/build/start-up and systems implementation
- Demonstrated success as a change agent, with both a willingness and ability to drive through influence and facilitate change
- Proven leadership ability and skilled at making forward thinking decisions to motivate, and build effective teams to maximize performance and effect organizational change
- Ability to travel regularly to sites across United States and abroad - travel will require the ability to stand and walk through operational environment for extended periods of time
Bonus Points
- Strong preference for Lean, six sigma certifications or project management certifications
Reasons To Join Us:
- Health Insurance: All full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401(K) Matching Plan: We are proud to offer a competitive 401k matching plan to our employees to support their future financial goals
- Vacation: All full-time employees are eligible for paid vacation
- Holiday Pay: All regular, full-time employees are eligible for nine company paid holidays
- Employee Discounts: Employees receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions
- Flexible Hours: Many of our teams offer flexible schedules with varying shifts and will work with you to accommodate your needs
- Fun Working Environment: Our team members are invited to participate in celebrations, holiday events, and team building activities
About Collectors Universe
Collectors Universe, Inc. is the leading provider of value-added services to the collectible’s markets. We authenticate and grade collectible coins, trading cards, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia through our subsidiaries, which include Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA), Professional Coin Grading Services (PCGS), Certified Coin Exchange (CCE), Wata, Collectors Corner, Set Registry, Collectors.com, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated more than 80 million items. We employ over 1,000 people across our Santa Ana, CA headquarters, New Jersey, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. For more information, visit http://www.collectorsuniverse.com.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We believe that a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills will better service the diverse community of collectors we support.
If you require an accommodation to apply or interview with us due to a disability or special need, please email [email protected].
If you are based in California, you can read information for California residents linked here.
