Tuesday, March 31, 2015

{SAP JOBS USA:145103} Direct Client !!!! Urgent Need : IT Project Manager : Minneapolis, MN

Dear Vendor Partners,

 

Please send the resume at arvind@idctechnologies.com

 

Position: IT Project Manager

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 6-12 Months

 

Business Overview:

Tell me about your department:

Inventory Optimization -

 

 

Project Description:

[The Inventory Optimization team is responsible for lowering expense related to Returns, Replacements and Damages (RRD) and building a Pre-owned business driven by Recycling, Trade-in and the reuse of those products for resale as pre-owned product.  The team is made up of teams responsible for 1) the business performance management of returns, open box and after sales expense

2) the inventory management and movement of product when it comes back to Best Buy (reverse logistics) and 3) the resale of product in both our core

(stores/bestbuy.com) and secondary (Brightstar, Cowboom, Techliquidators) channels.  In addition the team is kicking off a large, multi-year, cross-company IT initiative that will look to overhaul systems and processes needed to drive the business outcomes associated with the reduction of RRD expense from $400M to $100M over the course of the next 3 years.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Position Overview:

 

Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:

 

*         Manages day-to-day activity of program/project team

 

*         Ensures delivery of program(s) and/or project(s) on time, to

budget and to quality

 

*         Ensures communication and alignment between all teams

 

*         Ensures programs and projects are meeting timelines and

deliverables

 

*         Resolves issues, roadblocks and changes, and escalates to the

Product Capability Manager (PCM), when appropriate

 

*         Responsible for budget forecasts/projections

 

*         Financial reporting to budget

 

*         Point of escalation for all teams

 

*         Drives successful integrations with internal and external teams,

including vendors

 

*         Develops program roadmap with PCM

 

*         Experience with offshore and nearshore development teams

 

*         Ensures team is following all processes, procedures, and templates

used in department or organization

 

*         Identify and improve any processes or procedures that are outdated

or obsolete

Create a culture of continuous improvement, change and world class delivery

 

 

What would a normal day for this position look like??

-          Varies day to day

-          Manage full portfolio

-          Multiple escalations

-          Production or delivery team issues

-          One stop for any product issues/questions

 

 

 

 

Skills Overview:

What are the MUST have skills that you are looking for in a candidate?

 

  1.  5-7 or years experience leading large scoping initiatives

  2.  Extensive experience managing business team and expectations around requirements and driving to value

  3.  5-7 or more years of IT systems experience in application delivery and management.

  4.  2 or more years of program management experience

  5.  5-7 or more years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports and people management responsibilities

  6.  1 or more years of experience managing and being accountable for budgets over $1M

  7.  Ability to work early mornings, evenings and weekends, as needed

  8.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  9.  Product Management experience

  10. Technical skills (preferably developer experience)

  11. Application Development skills

  12. Large Enterprise Experience

  13. Prior IT experience implementing large scale IT development programs or other large program implementation in a dotcom environment

  14. 5 or more years of experience gathering business needs and creating into workable outcomes

  15. 5 or more years of experience in business process and/or technology implementation

  16. 3 or more years of experience managing third party vendor relationships and offshore development teams to achieve business outcomes

  17. 5 or more years of experience at a manager level or above delivering global IT capabilities for a multi-national company with annual budgetary responsibilities

  18. 5 or more years of experience at a manager level in a multi-channel brand business environment

  19. Multiple years of experience of delivering new business capabilities by applying system and delivery lifecycle methods and approaches

  20. Prior experience in working with organizational change management/leadership and process change management.

  21. Prior development experience

 

 

 

What are the technologies and the depth of the technologies that a candidate must have in order to be successful in this role?

 

  1.  Some sort of product tracking tool experience- Ex. Version 1 or Rally

  2.  Microsoft SQL

 

 

 

What are the soft skills that you feel candidates must-have in order to be successful in this role?

 

1.      Candidate must have a strong personality, be able to take

initiative, ask questions and make constant improvements and suggestions

 

2.      Must be able to voice opinion and take charge when needed

 

3.      Efficient

 

4.      Produces high-quality work

 

5.      Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 

6.      Extremely organized and detail oriented, and can setup projects in a

logical organizational manner and define just enough process for the teams to be successful.

 

7.      Comfortable with ambiguity and logically solves problems, but

escalates as needed

 

8.      Drives teams to completion and consistently hits deadlines

 

9.      Strong presentation and customer service skills

 

 

 

Please provide three industries that would produce fitting candidates:

Manager is Open - Would Prefer Retail

 

 

Interview Process Overview (Please include the date the manager would like to start interviewing):

 

 

1 hour interview with Manager.

Thanks and Regards

 

Arvind Nagar

Email- arvind@idctechnologies.com

Direct-408-457-9381 Ext-4008 !! Gtalk- arvindnagar.777 !! Yahoo- arvindnagar951

 

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