Project Manager
Spencer Gifts

Job Info

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Overview

Come work with us at Spencer's & Spirit Halloween, where you'll be working with the best and brightest colleagues as you help us deliver the most fun experience and product possible to our guests. We're fast-paced and take our work seriously, but we always have a good laugh at the end of the day. Walk through our stores or the halls of our corporate office and you'll see firsthand that we're laidback and irreverent. We're firm believers in being true to YOU, so tattoos and piercings are as common as watercooler convos. Whether it's critiquing our new exclusive costumes or quality testing newly implemented software technology, our teams understand the importance of working collaboratively to challenge status quo and achieve our goals. We keep pushing ourselves to go above and beyond and are looking for top talent to become a part of our team!

We offer the following benefits:

• 30% discount on merchandise
• competitive salary
• career advancement
• Bonus opportunity
• an excellent benefits package including Vacation/Sick/Holiday pay, Medical/Dental/Disability/Life and AD&D insurance & 401k.

Responsibilities

• Driving cross-functional execution of multi-departmental efforts consisting of multiple programs, often with non-aligned schedules and deliverables from requirements to delivery.
• Identifying areas in our processes and management of projects that can be modified and improved and execute steps to implement those changes.
• Ensuring that a project delivers on time with high quality, within budget, and in accordance with stated business and technical objectives.
• Holding team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables and ensuring that these are met.
• Continually looking for opportunities to improve current processes and approaches and implementing of these changes.
• Anticipating, proactively identifying, documenting and managing key program risks and resource constraints, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans across multiple programs.
• Documenting and communicating objectives, plans, status, issues and risks in a timely manner to team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Conducting regular and "as needed" program and cross-functional team meetings as a component of the program operating mechanisms to update status, and identifying and resolving issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business or equivalent hands on experience.
• PMP certification is preferred.
• Ability to communicate objectives, plans, status and results clearly, focusing on critical few key points.
• Solutions orientated, with a track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
• Deep knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership and team building skills. Presence, demonstrated ability to work in a matrix environment, and ability to influence at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships across organizations in delivering the best outcome of complex programs.
• Ability to intuitively gauge a project's scope and the team's ability to execute well.
• Strong experience with MS Project and Visio.
• Previous management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple and oft-changing priorities simultaneously.

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