Project Manager | $70/hr Remote

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Project Manager II to oversee and prioritize projects across retail locations. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders, managing third-party labor agencies, and ensuring project deliverables are met efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Prioritize large volumes of projects across thousands of retail locations, many with tight deadlines and high complexity, with some guidance from leadership
• Partner closely with internal and external key partners regularly to align and drive impact and results efficiently and accurately while moving quickly
• Act as liaison between regional third-party labor agencies, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers, demo tech teams, field sales, visual merchandising, and the eyewear partner on any retail partner issues
• Manage third-party labor agencies to execute projects in brick-and-mortar retailers globally, ensuring deliverables are met
• Build highly detailed execution plans for various initiatives across multiple product lines
• Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with strong attention to detail
• Understand display fixture production and installation processes to prepare workback schedules and deliverables for cross-functional sharing internally and externally
• Understand various retailer third-party labor operations to drive best-in-class execution
• Track field execution, including progress and results, and prepare reports for internal stakeholders
• Analyze demo data, identify potential roadblocks, and work with external partners to ensure in-store demo compliance
• Process all invoices and collaborate with leadership to ensure all third-party labor projects stay within budget

Requirements:

• Professional experience in retail in-store merchandising on either the brand or vendor side
• Project management experience
• Third-party labor management experience
• Proven ability to understand unique operating conditions within each retailer and how they impact planning and execution across all product lines
• Experience sharing program/project updates across broad teams and organizations with transparency and clear, concise cross-functional communication
• Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to track and articulate complexities of fixture installations
• Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors
• Experience partnering with external stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving skills, including identifying root causes and gathering cross-functional members to find solutions
• Strong interpersonal skills; approachable and flexible
• Experience navigating various organizational environments with differing cultures and structures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Google G Suite and Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with the eyewear retail partners and their guidelines/processes
• Experience planning large-scale executions and installations from concept through prototype and production stages
• Experience working in highly cross-functional settings
• Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility
• Experience in mobile carrier and/or specialty retail
• Experience with in-store tech demos or technology in a retail setting