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Are you thinking about advancing your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our Jersey City, NJ location is looking for a new IT Project Manager to join our Contract Logistics team.

As the Contract Logisics IT Project Manager you will Manage, schedule and control IS/IT project team members and related tasks associated with client implementations and system migrations. Follow formal project management methodologies, ensuring that projects are completed on-time, risk is identified/communicated/managed, project costs are managed within budget, and communications meet internal/client expectations.

• Manage IT team members indirectly based on individual roles and responsibilities, to include both external implementations and internal strategic or change based initiatives.
• Assume role of IT Sub-project stream lead under the direction of the overall Customer Onboarding Project Owner on larger initiatives
• Manage external business partners in terms of delivery, cost, and compliance with SOWs.
• Drive the gathering of customer requirements and partner with Solutions Engineering and IT team members in development of Concept of Operations and solution design.
• Provide effective communications to project team and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Coordinate meetings with prospects/clients to validate system requirements and specifications relative to product configuration and system integration.
• Oversee the construction, testing, training, implementation and support of system requirements.
• Participate in on-site implementation and client interaction to ensure delivery of business requirements.
• Organize the test plan, training plan, deployment plan, contingency plan, and development of test data and cycles to ensure that all processes identified in the requirements gathering phase will be validated.
• Control of project scope, associated change management, communication and govern risk.
• Manage project based IT budget, including internal and external cost components.
• Provide point of contact for Customer Onboarding, engineering, and Operations relative to customer change management.

If you require accommodation during the recruitment or interview process, including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting arrangements, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

This posting is for an actively available position and is not intended for future talent pool consideration.

• Degree in Logistics, Engineering, or Business Management preferred
• 5+ years of project management experience leading WMS system implementation projects required, experience with JDA/BY or Manhattan an advantage.
• Experience workingin a 3PL environment highly desirable
• PMP certification or similar desired
• Technical experience with WMS systems desired
• Ability to travel 50% during project execution, depending on project phase.
• Proven ability to manage large system implementation teams including external resources.
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills.

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target salary range for this position is between $140,000.00 and $145,000.00. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-LMB1 #LI-Remote #IT #Project Management

Individuals with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process may contact us by sending an email tokn.taaccommodations.com

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