What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at Grainger?
About Grainger:
Grainger is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with a wide range of products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money.
We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is an individual. Find your way with Grainger today.
Position Details:
The Senior Project Manager, Order to Cash establishes and leads enterprise-wide, strategic projects. This role may lead a variety of different types of projects including launching new products and services, large-scale application development, systems integration, operational efficiency improvements, process reengineering and infrastructure upgrades and deployments. The Senior Project Manager will provide project management support to the Order Capabilities product. Drives process of gathering business needs and prioritized and ensures the Order Capabilities team operates efficiently. Brings a knowledge of GSCCE process and PM skills to the team.
The Senior Project Manager will report to the Program Manager. This is a hybrid role located in Lake Forest, IL.
You Will:
- Lead a cross-functional group. Build PM plans that encompass people, process and technology components to minimize cycle time, optimize resources and minimize risk. Provides day to day direction, guidance, and oversight to diverse project team according to consistent PM and project delivery lifecycle.
- Lead planning multiple large workstreams which may be running concurrently. Leverages resources from multiple business areas possessing diverse business and technical skills.
- Lead and be responsible for the development of project related communication, project status and change management.
- Accountable for one or more projects that encompass business, IT and operational deliverables.
- Define feature requirements, future-state business process, and desired user experience. Prioritize features by ranking them against competing criteria and make difficult trade-off decisions based on the value a new feature will deliver to your customers and the business vs. time/effort/cost.
- Ensure end results are of the highest caliber with an articulated scope and clarity on the desired qualitative and quantifiable business benefit or outcomes.
- Discerns our needs by employing multiple investigative strategies, resources, and data to identify the opportunity.
- Structures the operating model of the project/program/initiative in such a way that clear accountabilities are established and delivered upon.
- Direct the development of deployment strategy and plan that encompasses project communications, training and change management plans and personally assures that appropriate contacts and relationships are developed and maintained.
You Have:
- BA/BS or equivalent preferred with 3 years of experience in related field.
- Experience in explaining the business case of a given initiative or feature so the technology team understands why we are building it.
- Demonstrated, applied expertise organizing and delivering complex projects.
- Negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution skills.
- Sound business, technical and analytics knowledge.
- Core project management expertise in the use of multiple project development life cycle methods and tools, such as Agile/Scrum and Waterfall.
- Accomplished in and fosters the use of Continuous Improvement (CI) methods and tools.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
- Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
- Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period
- Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement
- A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs
DEI Statement:
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.
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Grainger is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
