Centric Software is a global leader in providing innovative solutions for retailers, brands, and manufacturers. They are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of Centric Planning implementations across North America, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end implementation projects for Centric Planning customers across North America
- Own project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resource planning
- Build trusted relationships with customer executives, project sponsors and key stakeholders
- Facilitate project governance, steering committee meetings and executive status reviews
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams including functional consultants, technical architects and developers
- Proactively identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Ensure projects are delivered with high quality while meeting customer expectations and commercial targets
- Drive adoption of Project Management Office (PMO) standards, governance and best practices
- Partner with Product, Customer Success and Global Delivery teams to continuously improve implementation methodologies
- Support pre-sales engagements by contributing implementation strategies, project estimates and delivery approaches
- Mentor junior project managers and contribute to building delivery excellence across the North American Planning practice
Requirements:
- 5+ years managing enterprise software implementation projects
- Experience delivering SaaS or cloud-based enterprise applications
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methodologies
- Willingness to travel occasionally to customer locations
- Retail Planning, Merchandise Planning, Supply Chain or Retail Technology experience preferred
- PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification is an advantage