Project Manager — El Segundo

Company Description:

Highly successful Skin Care Distribution Company.

Job Description:






Position Summary:


As part of the IT Team, the Project Manager is responsible for coordinating and assisting with driving all aspects of IT Projects, Campaigns and other initiatives. Experienced in all phases of Project Management; Initiation, Requirements Specifications, Architecture, Design, Implementation, Quality Assurance, Deployment and Post Deployment.



To accomplish this, the Project Manager must be able to manage several small projects and roll up status at a portfolio level.  Assignments are of a dynamic nature with projects and tasks that require considerable industry and marketing knowledge as well as exceptional organizational, communication, prioritization, problem solving, and leadership skills.



This position also requires an individual with exceptional interpersonal skills to coordinate between both the Business and IT while reducing conflict and confusion.  This is a fast paced environment with several exciting projects and campaigns.







Duties & Responsibilities:



·        The Project Manager is responsible for the successful, on-time delivery of projects and as such will assist in driving projects forward across all involved functional areas.

·        Effectively communicate technical information in both written and verbal forms in group settings as well as 1:1 meetings.

·        Maintain correspondence between the implementation teams and business units during the analysis, definition, and development phases

·        Must drive consensus and stakeholder approvals to ensure project delivery schedule

·        Coordinate between Business and IT without taking sides and ultimately reporting to the PMO

·         All work must be documented so that instructions and descriptions can be understood and used by others.

·        Must be decisive and demonstrate exceptional judgment and problem solving abilities.

·        Communicate equally well with technical and non-technical personnel.











Experience and  Qualifications:



·        A solid understanding of application development life cycle as well as systems implementation / integration including support functions such as such as testing, operations, working with third party vendors, documentation and the implementation processes is also required.

·        Minimum 2 years Microsoft Project Experience

·        Minimum 2 years Project Management experience, PMP certification a plus (not required)

·        Minimum 2 Years Marketing Experience (Web, Print or other combined)

·        Experience in Web Marketing Campaign Management

·        Must be able to manage several projects at the same time with minimal supervision.

·        Must have some technical background.

·        Must be an exceptional planner who is very detail-orientation and has the ability to organize and drive multiple projects at one time.

·        Must be able to deal with strong personalities and without creating conflict

·        Experienced in conflict resolution and consensus building

·        Candidate should be action and results-oriented, emphasizing expansion and application of technical knowledge.

·        Candidate must be able to effectively present information and respond to questions or inquiries from supervisors, business users, implementation teams, etc.







Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree preferred.