Project Manager

What Makes Stephen Gould Exceptional

Founded through a passion for entrepreneurship, our success is due to the ingenuity and tenacity of our extraordinary teams, bringing people and ideas together. With Stephen Gould, everything is within reach including an exciting career opportunity. We want you to join our team and build on our incredible 80-years of excellence. Stephen Gould looks for people that want to design and develop exciting solutions for a variety of engaged and passionate clients across the global. With headquarters in Whippany, New Jersey, 40 locations throughout the U.S and operations in six countries outside the U.S, we have grown tremendously while maintaining staying true to our 5 Principles: Stephen Gould - 5 Principals

Values and behaviors we look for:

• Be committed to delivering the best results as a team, recognize that decisions may differ from individual opinion, succeed as a group.
• Integrity and reliability show up every day in my work.
• Turn challenges into opportunities, be proactive and problem-solve early

What will I do?

As a Project Manager in our sales office, you will manage projects from conceptual design ideas, through manufacturing to final distribution supporting the Sales Manager. Stephen Gould looks for highly motivated, energetic, and friendly individual who understands the keys to success in this position are communication and organization. Our Itasca, IL office is a fast paced, and deadline driven environment, high accountability and team-oriented goal effort is a must.

• You will learn the internal ordering platform and requirements for order entry and need a thorough understanding of multiple manufacturing processes.
• You will be responsible for data analysis and reporting for your team.
• You will interact daily with both clients and manufacturing partners/suppliers building these relationships for long term business.
• You will identify areas of improvement within processes and procedures.
• You will have an opportunity to drive best practice though feedback to partners and clients and receive feedback as well.
• You will have oversight on daily requests from Sales manager, Office manager and Clients and independence, organization, detail orientation and motivation are paramount.

Role Requirements

• Bachelor's degree highly preferred + 3 years of experience.
• Associates degree + 4 years of experience
• PMP or Lean Six Sigma Certification highly preferred
• Experience working in a sales and service, corporate or PMO.
• 10% travel is required
• Highly preferred background in Business Management, Sales, Marketing, or Supply Chain Management.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Suite Experience Adobe Acrobat, PM Software (Planner, Trello, SmartSheet, Monday.com) highly preferred!

THIS POSITION DESCRIPTION IN NO WAY SATES OR IMPLIES THAT THESE ARE THE ONLY DUTIES TO BE PERFORMED BY THE EMPLOYEE(S) INCUMBENT IN THIS POSITION. EMPLOYEES WILL BE REQUIRED TO FOLLOW ANY JOB-RELATED INSTRUCTIONS AND TO PERFORM ANY OTHER JOB-RELATED DUTIES REQUESTED BY ANY PERSON AUTHORIZED TO GIVE INSTRUCTIONS OR ASSIGNMENTS.

EEOC: Stephen Gould is an equal opportunity employer