Business Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead major projects from initiation through delivery, including discovery, planning, execution, and rollout.
• Partner closely with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, Digital, and other business stakeholders to understand requirements, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions across business and technical teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategies, capacity, and resource constraints.
• Translate business needs into clear project plans, timelines, scope, and measurable success criteria.
• Cook up coordination with engineering, data, integrations, and vendor teams to ensure system design, data flows, and Item attributes are defined and implemented correctly.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and cross-team impacts, drive mitigation plans and escalate when needed.
• Prepare and deliver structured project updates, dashboards, and executive summaries to business stakeholders, technology leaders, and cross-functional teams.
• Manage project ceremonies, status updates, steering discussions, and communication with all levels of the organization.
• Ensure data readiness, Item attributes mapping, governance, and workflow changes are defined and validated before deployment.
• Track progress across initiatives, monitor KPIs, and ensure teams stay accountable to milestones and deliverables.
• Support UAT, cutover planning, training, and change management to ensure smooth adoption across the organization.

Required Experience

• 7 years of Project or Program Management experience in technical, digital, retail, or supply-chain-related environments.
• Strong experience in Item attributes, data flows, vendor onboarding, SKU setup, or related product/merchandising processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive prioritization with business stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong communication, analytical thinking, and stakeholder management skills, including executive communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with PIM, ERP, OMS, or merchandising systems.
• Vendor or implementation project experience.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for business partners.