Project Manager -Warehouse Management Systems - Contract - Hybrid at Robert Half

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Overview of the role:

We are seeking Contract Project Manager with WMS implementation experience to lead the Manhattan Active rollout at our West POCO Warehouse. As a team member of the Project Management Office, you will be accountable for the planning, managing, and successful completion of the large scale, complex implementations, impacting business processes across the Canada site and other independent sites.

Your recipe for delivering successful projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment includes being versatile and maintaining strong relationships with IT leaders, the business, multiple vendors, and the project core teams.

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Define and lead the project approach from concept through execution, including translating ambiguous business objectives into a clear delivery strategy, work breakdown structure, staffing model, deliverables, and integrated project plan. You are responsible for establishing scope, estimates, schedule, costs, assumptions, and external dependencies in environments where requirements may initially be undefined or evolving.
• Provide the IT Leadership Team with weekly progress reports including risks, issues, decisions as well as recommendations for adjustments as necessary. You will ensure the timely communication of relevant project information to all affected team members, including changes to the plans, team structure, commitments, and project dependencies.
• Have strong leadership skills and provides guidance and support to optimize the performance of a diverse team, leads through influence indirect reports, and ensures that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, including periodic reviews, transitions and governance.
• Manage internal and external relationships and coordinates work between different teams.
• Work effectively in a multi-partner delivery model.
• Lead the end‑to‑end management of third‑party vendors and system integrators, including participation in contract negotiation, commercial governance, and oversight of delivery performance throughout the full project lifecycle, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, cost, and quality commitments.
• Have a well-rounded Project Management knowledge base and the ability to quickly pickup and deliver projects across various applications and platforms
• Oversee timesheets, costs, and financials to ensure the project budget aligns with planned targets by regularly comparing actuals and providing monthly reports to project leaders. Proactively identify potential cost overruns and develop action plans to mitigate risks. Ensure adherence to established governance protocols.

How you will make contributions that matter:

Reporting to the Portfolio Manager and working collaboratively with your stakeholders as well as the project, change management, and training teams, the Project Manager is responsible for:

• Work Planning and Deliverable Management: You will adapt the PMO Work Planning processes and tools to the projects at hand and will maintain work plans, continuously monitoring actuals, and resolving/addressing cost and schedule variances. You will leverage the Deliverable Management process and tool to track the timely completion of all project Deliverables to the baselines.
• Scope Management: You will operationalize the pre-defined PMO Scope Management Process to control the project scope and requirements. You will present scope changes meeting the pre-defined threshold to the IT leadership Committee for approval.
• Performance and Reporting Management: You will leverage the pre-defined PMO processes, tools, and techniques to ensure timely and appropriate generation, and distribution of project progress and status information to project stakeholders.
• Resource Management: You will be responsible for managing the resources of the project, including the capacity, defining the roles and responsibilities, creating a staffing plan, obtaining appropriate skilled resources, and managing shared capacity.
• Issue/Risk Management/Quality: You will enforce the timely capture of project risks and issues by all team members, and will track, manage, resolve, or escalate project problems that impact the project's ability to meet the IT commitments as they pertain to schedule, resources, costs, quality.
• Vendor and System Integrator Management: You will lead relationships with external vendors and system integrators, including establishing delivery governance, managing financials and change controls, and ensuring vendor performance meets contractual and project expectations. You will proactively address delivery risks, dependencies, and integration challenges across internal and external teams.
• Working with the IT PMO team to define and manage the required quality gates to perform quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control activities. You will be responsible for getting the Deliverable signoffs from the various stakeholders and ensuring that all expectations are met.

You are best suited for the role if you have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent work experience
• Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum (i.e. PMP, Prince II)
• SCRUM Master certification or successful completion of projects in hybrid or agile environments.
• A minimum of 8 years of total IT project delivery experience, of which 3-5 years include leading full delivery lifecycle Warehouse Management System implementation, as well as managing a diverse team
• Must have experience delivering WMS projects end to end, preferably on Manhattan WMS.
• Experience delivering large projects or programs with complex application delivery
• Experience managing multiple system integrators
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities under pressure
• Ability to work independently and as part of a delivery team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; ability to provide updates to Director and VP levels; adept at building relationships with internal teams and external partners
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to coordinate 20+ shared resources and collaborate at all levels. Strong people management skills including delegation, motivation, coaching, and conflict management capabilities.
• Strong background in business process within supply chain or warehouse environments for CPG companies with fast moving products
• Ability to work on site as required at Georgetown office (preferred)
• Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced project environment with interdependencies spanning multiple work-streams, teams, business divisions, geographies, time zones, & languages.
• Experience managing packaged software and SaaS implementation methodologies. Cross functional exposure, including Manufacturing and Supply Chain
• Expert-level proficiency in MS Office (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, MS Project Professional and Excel) and SharePoint.
• Product management knowledge or working experience is an asset.

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Job Info:

• Company: Robert Half
• Position: Project Manager -Warehouse Management Systems - Contract - Hybrid
• Work Location: Georgetown
• Country: CA

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