US LBM Strategic Project Manager

US LBM is one of the leading and fastest growing distributors of specialty building materials in the United States, with a team of over 15,000 employees located throughout the country. Since our founding in 2009, we have acquired over 70 companies and have expanded to more than 500 locations serving 37 states. US LBM is a progressive organization that promotes a unique culture that focuses on the value of its customers and associates. Developing our people is critical to our strategy and fostering our culture of empowerment.

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A Brief Overview
The Strategic Project Manager is responsible for providing end-to-end project management and leadership managing complex projects, including ERP Conversions of new and existing businesses as well as the implementation of newly developed Operational and Customer Experience software. This position will oversee project budgets and schedules, minimize project risk, as well as create and manage project plans. The Strategic Project Manager must elicit, accurately characterize, and document project goals, scope, stakeholders, risks, issues, success measures, effort, and resource estimates. This position is accountable for driving project teams to the completion of projects on time, within budget and within scope. They will set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor, and summarize progress of projects, and report the status of projects to management. The Strategic Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring all project management office requirements are met. This includes following the stage gate process and the Strategic Project Manager will be responsible for presenting all project artifacts during gate reviews. This role will report to the Director of Program Management. The Strategic Project Manager will be critical to the success of ERP Conversions and other newly developed Operational and Customer Experience software at US LBM and our portfolio of companies and will play a key role as the company continues its aggressive growth.

What you will do

• Understand and manage the scope of medium- and large-sized projects, considering business requirements, budget, resources, and capabilities.
• Oversee ERP Conversion projects from a variety of legacy systems into Epicor Bistrack, as well as other software implementations with the goal of achieving project success in the areas of Scope, Schedule, Budget and realized Benefits.
• Identify and manage critical paths, being mindful of upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Develop project plans, key milestone schedules, and cost/benefit analysis.
• Track and manage the project schedule and its dependencies.
• Communicate updates on major milestones and keep all stakeholders informed of progress and issues.
• Lead requirements gathering and planning process, working closely with key stakeholders.
• Ensure coordination with other key initiatives, and addresses and resolve project conflicts.
• Manage project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and tracks actuals.
• Facilitate PMO level reviews of the project status and health.
• Ensure issues and risks are managed, mitigated, and communicated to senior leadership.
• Apply change management principles and tools to create a strategy to support adoption of the changes required for our change initiatives.

Required For All Jobs

• Complies will all policies and standards.
• Adheres to Company's commitment to workplace safety.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Management.

Competencies

• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Accountability - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Being Resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations.
• Tech Savvy -Adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems or other relevant degree.

Experience Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT project management experience within a shared services environment, including management of large complex technology projects preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders at various levels of the organization

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and comfort working in an environment where things are not always defined
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g., Smartsheet, MS Teams, Visio, etc).
• Technical competency in IT/Systems, combined with business acumen to understand and translate between business and technical requirements.
• Experience with the data migration process, ensuring accurate transfer of data
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skill, including written and oral communication, with the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Ability to motivate and influence cross-functional project team members
• Skill in organizing project team meeting agendas and leading discussions that drive project planning, execution, risk identification/mitigation, and achievement of expected project results

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI highly desirable.

Travel

• Up to 10% travel for meetings, training, or project support.

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US LBM Holdings, LLC, is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, order of protection status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.