Project manager

job summary:
Our West Michigan Client has a contract opportunity for a Project Manager to assist with their e-commerce projects. Ideal candidates will be near West Michigan and able to be occasionally onsite as needed.

location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
job type: Contract
salary: $45 - 60 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors


responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an integrated project plan that connects milestones and
• dependencies across participating teams.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning, status, risk, and decision-making
• meetings; document outcomes, owners, and due dates.
• Track scope, schedule, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and actions,
• escalating blockers through established governance when needed.
• Prepare concise, accurate status updates and leadership reporting that
• highlight progress, upcoming milestones, decisions, and delivery concerns.
• Coordinate alignment of business and technical requirements, implementation
• sequencing, testing milestones, communications, training dependencies, and
• launch criteria.
• Support change control by documenting proposed scope or schedule changes,
• assessing cross-team impacts with accountable leads, and routing decisions to
• the appropriate stakeholders.
• Promote timely decision-making by bringing together the right subject-matter
• experts, clarifying options and impacts, and following actions through
• completion.
• Coordinate launch-readiness reviews and a defined post-launch stabilization
• and handoff period.
• Build productive relationships across business and technology teams and
• maintain transparency without relying on formal authority.

qualifications:
5+ years of experience managing cross-functional IT projects through planning, implementation, launch, and stabilization.

Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple delivery teams and business stakeholders in a complex enterprise environment.

Retail, e-commerce, omnichannel fulfillment, or store-technology experience strongly preferred.

Strong working knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall delivery methods, including environments where teams use different approaches.

Proven ability to manage integrated schedules, dependencies, RAID logs, scope changes, action items, and launch-readiness activities.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise, executive-ready status reports and translate detailed team updates into a clear project-level view.

Effective facilitation, organization, negotiation, judgment, and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority.

Experience using Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint for project planning, collaboration, analysis, and stakeholder communication.

Experience using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub to monitor delivery progress, milestones, dependencies, and work-item status.

Experience using Power BI to develop or interpret project dashboards and delivery reporting.

PMP certification preferred.

skills:
Agile,GitHub,IT projects,Azure DevOps,Excel,PowerPoint,Power BI,RAID,communications,Strong written and verbal communication,Coordinate,organization,decision-making,leadership,ability to influence,problem-solving skills,collaboration,PMP certification,change control,dashboards,e-commerce,Effective facilitation,governance,Merchandising,omnichannel,negotiation,project plan,project planning,Retail,risks,risk,schedules,stakeholder communication,testing,Waterfall delivery

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).


This posting is open for thirty (30) days.