Ralph Lauren - Associate Project Manager (8-12 yrs)

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead delivery of digital projects to ensure on time and high-quality delivery of our consumer-facing experiences

- Manage a small team of Digital Market Expansion and Localization function that focuses on Project work assignments and Tracking projects health and providing tools necessary for the team to execute work more effectively.

- Drive development and implementation of prioritized projects working with cross-functional teams

- Manages multiple projects and tasks simultaneously

- Creates and maintains project plans to fully account for the delivery and ongoing improvement of the solution

- Proactively works with business analysts, product managers, design, user experience, development and QA to define project requirements and estimate effort to deliver

- Tracks progress against plans, deliverables, and expected outcomes

- Identifies and attends to interdependencies between key resources and between significant work efforts

- Identifies and surfaces risks & issues to Leadership

- Establishes and maintains repository of artifacts, deliverables, and team working space

- Provides ongoing project update reports to internal leadership

- Responsible for following and monitoring project management processes and documentation

- Assists in educating business stakeholders on the global digital processes

- Oversees project from initial discovery through implementation & delivery, including overall continuing project maintenance if needed

- Ensures ongoing resource needs are captured and utilization rates are maintained across their cross-functional team(s)

- Responsible for management and communication of project status and tasks among team members and business stakeholders

- Responsible for coordination final delivery of digital applications or functionality, including user acceptance testing, final sign-off & Prod Ops Handoff

- Seeks out vendor or internal solutions and manages overall project issue resolutions.

Required Skills :

- Experience as an Associate Project Manager defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of digital solutions and managing work for a small team of Program Management, for Market Expansion and Localization.

- Strong grasp of current web technologies as well as related business issues

- PMI or PMP certification preferred

- Experience with Global Market Expansion and Localization preferred

- Experience working with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, IBM Sterling OMS and Monetate is a plus

- Deep experience in multiple software development lifecycles, including waterfall and agile

- Excellent project management skills including prioritization, scheduling, and documentation

- Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external groups

- Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Excel, and PPT to help in the documentation and facilitation of tasks

- High energy, enthusiastic and able to succeed in a dynamic work environment

- Solid technical understanding and ability to define and refine requirements through a project lifecycle