Special Projects Manager - Acquisition

Essential Job Functions

• Direct accountability and responsibility for overall project success from start to finish.
• Manages the relationships with stakeholders to ensure their satisfaction throughout the project.
• Accurately forecasts, plans, reports, and manages projects to ensure accurate and timely project revenue/cost accounting.
• Proactively manages and resolves issues to minimize crisis and escalations, and proactively informs and engages Senior Management in advance when they can't be avoided.
• Provides constructive feedback and suggestions on internal process improvements.
• Ensures safe, seamless delivery of projects on time and on budget.
• Acts as a liaison and coordinator of work streams to ensure proper team alignment and organization of activities between departments.
• May chair various project review and pre-submittal meetings.
• Proposes and executes divisional project plans, goals, objectives, policies and programs as assigned by the Vice President of Operations.
• Maintains detailed timelines, project plans, and hours budgeted for project deliverables and key milestones.
• Has the flexibility to quickly adapt the approach to project completion by observing and re-evaluating project priorities and plan effectiveness.
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously and understands project priorities in the context of VP expectations.
• Prepares project schedules, and budgets/estimates.
• Prepares reports on progress to plan and proactively resolves for gaps in execution. Authorizes and monitors project and program expenditures.
• Tracks and updates expenditures on individual projects regularly to coincide with period reporting requirements.
• Responds to all inquiries related to assigned projects.
• Other duties as assigned, which are likely to vary over time.

  Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Project Management, Business Management, or related field experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a management consultant role
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communications, interpersonal, prioritization and organizational skills
• Ability to provide guidance to other departments
• May requires travel up to 30% of the time, both within the Division but also across the company as requested
• Ability/capacity to work under pressure with ambitious deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects to completion and on time
• An elite ability to lead through influence to achieve results for all marketing projects/programs
• Must be results oriented with a high level of initiative
• Works well independently and in team settings
• Possess intermediate skillset in Microsoft Office, Word and advanced skillset in Excel and Power Point.

  Physical Demands

• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with associates, vendors, contractors and customers.

• Ability to sit at a desk or in a vehicle for long periods at a time.
• Ability to operate a computer
• Ability to travel to store locations as needed.

  The physical requirements described herein are essential functions of this job. The Company complies with all federal, state, and local laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with a disability so they can perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so creates an undue hardship.

  Job duties may change with or without notice.

Circle K is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Company complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA) and all state and local disability laws. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under the terms of the ADA and certain state or local laws as long as it does not impose an undue hardship on the Company. Please inform the Company’s Human Resources Representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

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