Program Manager II - Tailored Management

Job Description:
Job Title: Physical Merchandising Project Manager - North America
Location: CA Burlingame Hybrid
Duration: 12 Months with up to up to two years extension
Pay Rate: $ 64 /hr on w2

An excellent opportunity to join a global leader in the tech industry that builds technologies to help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Tailored Management is seeking a Physical Merchandising Project Manager to work onsite at our client's Burlingame / Redmond campus on a 12 Month contract basis with extension up to 2 years.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a global leader in the tech industry that builds technologies to help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple physical merchandising programs focusing on end-to-end production of third-party retail displays.
• Physical merchandising programs for all of our Canadian retailers.
• Partnering channel marketing and creative team in physical merchandising programs, fixtures used to sell our projects, any physical manifestation in third party retail.
• They need to understand of materials and merchandising principals and being able to manage 3rd party principals and project management
• Negotiation experience and managing budgets $4-6 millions.
• Partner with the Regional VM Lead to initiate, progress and deliver project activities
• Act as a key point of contact driving activity between global fixture vendor partners, graphic companies, channel marketing managers, creative and marketing
• Track and manage the financial aspect of projects. Use internal payment systems and tools to progress payment activities. Work closely with team members to ensure all activities are on budget
• Work to identify areas to value engineer, negotiate with vendors on deliverables such as production, kitting & shipping costs
• Maintain project trackers to ensure all updates execute on time
• Work on internal process development, collaborate with team members to drive efficiencies for physical merchandising initiatives, especially across VR counterparts
• Organize vendor partner conference calls weekly to track and update progress ensuring all deadline dates are on track
• Prepare internal communications to convey and drive understanding of project plans and activity status

Must Have Skills:

• 5 years' experience working on development and production of physical merchandising programs for third-party retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and Costco.

• Knowledge of physical merchandising production and lead-times related to in-store retail displays is critical for success.
• 3-5 years' experience managing third-party print and production vendors.
• Experience working with creative, visual merchandising, marketing, and sales teams to develop creative briefs.

Good to have skills:

• Problem-solving skills for building contingency plans to maintain production timelines.
• Experience using project management tools and spreadsheet to track and communicate timelines, costs, and deliverables.
• Ability to multi-task and work with competing and ever-changing priorities in fast-paced environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of retail project management experience, preferably within the consumer electronics category.
• Understanding of 3rd party retail, firsthand experience working with NA partners such as: Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Costco etc.
• Understanding of the fixture design, development and implementation process.
• Communication skills with a focus on detail.
• Advanced MS office skills (and proficient with equivalent Google docs).
• Proficient in the creation and maintenance of project trackers across multiple programs and stakeholders.
• Experience maintaining budgets.
• Able to thrive in a constant changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Telco operators a plus (Telecommunication, Telecommunication, Telecommunication)
• Firsthand experience of the 2D artwork production process, from creative layout through to print production
• Experience of AV (Audiovisual) retail display technology
• Experience of qualitative and quantitative retail research projects