Project Manager I
Company: Springs Window Fashions
Location: Middleton
Posted on: October 2, 2024
Job Description:
Description
Springs Window Fashions is hiring for an Enterprise Project Manager
I at our Corporate Headquarters in the Madison, WI area.
This is a hybrid role with 3 days each week in office, two days
working remotely.
Company Overview
Springs Window Fashions is a leader in the custom window treatment
industry since 1939. Headquartered in Middleton WI, we have over
8,000 associates with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Our custom window treatments are available under the Bali, Graber,
SunSetter and Mecho brands in nearly every major retailer, in
thousands of designer showrooms, and showcased in large commercial
buildings.
Our company has made significant investments to become a leader in
product innovation. As North America's premier window covering
company, we're committed to creating a "Best Experience" for our
consumers, channel partners and associates. We are bringing new
innovations to the market at an accelerated pace and have a variety
of offerings to consumers who want to improve their home
d--cor.
Job Summary
Project Management plays a crucial role in driving the successful
execution of initiatives at Springs Window Fashions through
effective collaboration with project teams. The role involves
partnership with project sponsors, ensuring effective stakeholder
management and business engagement, serving as the owner for
project status and budget reporting and facilitating strong
partnerships within the organization and with third-party
contributors to manage project scope, schedules, cost, risks, and
issues.
Key Job Duties:
- Strategic Project Planning: Assist with creation of project
plans, considering scope, timeline, budget, and resource allocation
for initiatives.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with leaders at Springs
Window Fashions to ensure alignment with business strategies and
engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and assist with
development of mitigation strategies to ensure successful project
delivery while maintaining the highest standards of quality.
- Resource Collaboration: Encourage collaboration across project
resources for optimal utilization and efficiency in achieving
project goals.
- Budget Oversight: Assist with project budgets, expenditure
monitoring, and ensures project within budget guidelines.
- Performance Metrics: Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to
measure the success of projects and identify areas for
improvement.
- Reporting: Provide regular and comprehensive project status
reports to department leadership, highlighting achievements,
challenges, and recommended actions.
- Continuous Improvement: Participate in a culture of continuous
improvement, innovation, and best practices in project management
methodologies.
Additional Job Duties:
- Coordinates the business case for each initiative with input
from stakeholders. Solicit input on project objectives, scope,
timing, and resources.
- Assists with projects to achieve defined business outcomes.
Participates in cross-functional teams for project success.
- Escalate risks as needed. Seek to learn assigned business
function, challenges, barriers, needs, as well as enabling
processes and systems, to deliver desired outcomes.
- Incorporate people change management and business process
activities into the project plan to ensure adoption and
sustainability of the delivered outcomes.
- Financial management through monitoring and communicating
project costs and benefits with business owners and Finance.
- Maintain effective communication with project team and
internal/external stakeholders including producing accurate project
status reports, decision logs, etc. to ensure team alignment and to
drive forward progress.
Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field;
Project Management Certification (PMP) is a plus.
- 2+ years of experience in project management, with a focus on
initiatives in the manufacturing sector.
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, tools,
and best practices.
- Experience with change management.
- Experience utilizing project management tools, Excel, Power BI,
Smartsheet, Microsoft Project or similar.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate
across all levels of the organization.
- Analytical and strategic thinking capabilities, with a focus on
problem-solving and decision-making.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and
deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Behavioral Competencies
- Ensures Accountability - Holding self and others accountable to
meet commitments
- Drive Engagement - Creating a climate where people are
motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its
objectives
- Instill Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others
through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
- Drive Results - Consistently achieving results, even under
tough circumstances
- Consumer/Customer Focus - Building strong customer
relationships and delivering on customer-centric solutions
- Critical Thinking - Making Sense of complex, high quantity, and
sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve
problems
- Being Resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when
facing difficult situations
- Optimize Work Processes - Knowing the most effective and
efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous
improvement
Keywords: Springs Window Fashions, Waukesha , Project Manager I, Executive , Middleton, Wisconsin
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