Project Manager (W2 only and Local)

Company: Sharp Decisions
Location: Torrance
Posted on: April 18, 2025

Job Description:

A client of Sharp Decisions Inc. is looking to bring on a Project Manager to be based in Torrance, CA. This position is HYBRID (3 days a week onsite). The contract duration is 12 months with possible extension. *W2 only.

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DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work with Business and IT teams, including Business Data Owners, Data Stewards, Technical Data Stewards, Catalog Architects, Platform Owners, and Project/Product Managers, to implement Data Quality rules, metadata ingestion, profiling, sampling, reports, and Data Governance dashboards.

Establishes and implements project management processes and methodologies for the IT community and project stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations and business objectives.

Manage teams through all phases of cycle development, including analysis, project design and development, testing periods, installation and final delivery.
Responsible for assembling project plans, team work assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality reviews; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
Coordinates communication with all areas of the enterprise that impacts the scope, budget, risk and resources of the work effort being managed.
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources.
Ability to lead meetings, gain consensus, and take and distribute meeting minutes.
Strong vendor management skills. Some projects will have work outsourced to onshore and offshore resources.
Identify complex risks, lead reviews, create risk mitigation and implement action plans.
Manages one or more cross functional projects of high complexity.
Strong facilitator - Ability to reach across to other teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time.
Responsible for the management of one or more medium-to-large-sized, moderately to highly complex projects
Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
Manage project scope and changes
Manage and control project cost and schedule.
Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders
Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate ideas.
Proven leadership skills.
Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects and priorities.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.

What will this person be working on:

Managing the implementation of multiple parts-system projects.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
Project Management PMP certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum is preferred.
Self-starter - Ability to leverage previous experience and available information to create and update project plans. Requires little oversight.
Strong presentation skills with experience with providing project updates with all levels of the organization.
Advanced ability to oversee and manage large, complex, diverse and strategic projects that impact the organization as a whole
Advanced ability in implementing program and project plans, monitoring progress, resource usage and quality
Advanced knowledge in conducting risk assessments and developing plans for eliminating or mitigating the risks identified
Advanced understanding of multiple project management disciplines; waterfall, agile/scrum.
Experience in supply chain processes, including inventory management, order processing, and distribution center operations is desired.
Experience in implementing large scale end-to-end supply chain system (i.e. BlueYonder) with mainframe integrations, and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) proceses.
In-depth knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and experience implementing SOX controls.
Ability to demonstrate leadership, drive results, solve problems, and possess interpersonal skills from prior work situations
Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective.
Attention to granular details is a must.
Experience working with Clarity - OpenWorkBench and/or MUX is a plus.
Proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience in RFP and vendor selection.

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