Merchandising Project Manager

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This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk grab a bite (or a cup of coffee) work out or get a check-up we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.

Your Impact

The primary purpose of this role is to project manager within their assigned Merchandising division in order to deliver on defined scope timeline and budget. This includes responsibility for planning and overseeing the deployment of their respective Merchandising divisions go-to-market strategy by supporting each Product Groups vision identifying project scope developing timelines providing status reporting leading risk mitigation and prioritizing the day-to-day tasks of an internal CSC team across several functions. This role is critical to Lowes because through the effective project management of these initiatives Lowes is able to support the market introduction of new products and selling material empowering store associates to drive incremental sales and margin

What You Will Do

• Delivers the planned Merchandising Division project portfolio for their respective division consisting of 50 projects and $60M of expenditure annually
• Supports the Merchandising Divisions leadership; aligns one-to-one with a Merchandising VP and supports the go-to-market strategy for that division
• Prioritizes project/task priorities across the cross-functional project team usually consisting of 10-12 members; works closely with the project team & client to ensure timely implementation and rollout of projects and ensures that all appropriate project activities are defined and appropriately assigned for accountability
• Captures project specific intent/scope and develops timelines and functional resource alignment to execute intent; escalates deviations or variances on scope timeline and budget to appropriate Merchandising Leadership & client
• Identifies risks and leads mitigation efforts identifies system process and training gaps as well as notes resource constraints and escalates to the respective client and Merchandising Leadership as needed
• Supports the Portfolio forecasting and the Project Authorization Request (PAR) processes and collaborates with leaders across the organization to ensure data and information is entered on time aligned with key reporting dates and accurately depicts their teams projects
• Participates in the preparation for the annual forecast solicitation process with clients and portfolio team and assists in monthly updates to the forecast
• Consolidates and reports spend variances to budgets/forecasts to the portfolio team and Merchandising Operations leadership throughout the lifecycle of their teams projects
• Coordinates with the Portfolio & Financial Support team to ensure their teams portfolio is accurately represented in all dashboards monthly reports and quarterly solicitations
• Develops and tracks project plans in the project management tool (PMT) to identify issues and opportunities form hypotheses design and conduct analyses track major milestones / progress synthesize conclusions and approve final plans to implement change and ensures ongoing project data accuracy

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree Business Management Business Administration Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 4 Years Relevant business experience
• 3 Years Experience leading operational process review design and implementation of improvements; industry related experience
• 2 years leadership experience with direct report responsibility comfortable managing teams with 5 people. Expert in project life cycle methodologies (Waterfall Agile etc.) stakeholder. management conflict resolution executive communication (written verbal etc.
• 4 years experience developing project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) / User Stories used to create project schedules and estimates

Preferred Skills/Education

• Masters degree Business Management Business Administration Computer Science or related field
• 3 Years Experience leading operational process review design and implementation of improvements; industry related experience

About Lowes

Lowes Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than$86 billion. Lowes employs approximately 300000 associates and operates over 1750 home improvement stores 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowes is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based inMooresville N.C. Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing improving community spaces helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information visit.

Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race color religious creed sex gender age ancestry national origin mental or physical disability or medical condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status military or veteran status genetic information or any other category protected under federal state or local law.