Project Manager III
Walker, MN - USA
Job Summary
The IT Project Manager will coordinate cross-functional delivery for the Ship to Home initiative across Digital IT Store Team Member Experience and Merchandising IT. This role will provide the structure visibility and follow-through needed to align team plans from requirements and planning through implementation launch readiness and stabilization. The project manager will maintain an integrated view of milestones dependencies risks decisions and actions while functional and technical leads retain accountability for their teams deliverables and technical decisions.
- Develop and maintain an integrated project plan that connects milestones and dependencies across participating teams.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning status risk and decision-making meetings; document outcomes owners and due dates.
- Track scope schedule risks assumptions issues dependencies and actions escalating blockers through established governance when needed.
- Prepare concise accurate status updates and leadership reporting that highlight progress upcoming milestones decisions and delivery concerns.
- Coordinate alignment of business and technical requirements implementation sequencing testing milestones communications training dependencies and launch criteria.
- Support change control by documenting proposed scope or schedule changes
assessing cross-team impacts with accountable leads and routing decisions to the appropriate stakeholders. - Promote timely decision-making by bringing together the right subject-matter experts clarifying options and impacts and following actions through
completion. - Coordinate launch-readiness reviews and a defined post-launch stabilization
and handoff period. - Build productive relationships across business and technology teams and maintain transparency without relying on formal authority.
- 58 years of experience managing cross-functional IT projects through planning implementation launch and stabilization.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple delivery teams and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.
- Retail e-commerce omnichannel fulfillment or store-technology experience strongly preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall delivery methods including environments where teams use different approaches.
- Proven ability to manage integrated schedules dependencies RAID logs scope changes action items and launch-readiness activities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create concise executive-ready status reports and translate detailed team
updates into a clear project-level view. - Effective facilitation organization negotiation judgment and problem-solving skills with a demonstrated ability to influence without
formal authority. - Experience using Excel Teams and PowerPoint for project planning collaboration analysis and stakeholder communication.
- Experience using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub to monitor delivery progress milestones dependencies and work-item status.
- Experience using Power BI to develop or interpret project dashboards and
delivery reporting. - PMP certification preferred.
Success means providing reliable project visibility enabling timely resolution or escalation of cross-team dependencies and helping the participating teams deliver a coordinated launch-ready Ship to Home solution against agreed scope and milestones.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Custom Business Solutions, Inc is a Michigan based IT Consulting and Staffing firm dedicated to ensuring you pay less to get more out of IT.