Project Manager - Warehouse Logistics Systems

Title: PM Warehouse Logistics Systems Location: Chicago, IL (4 Days Remote / 1 day onsite) Salary: $110-120K No sponsorship The Project Manager provides strategic business analysis services to our business partners and technology leaders. The focus of this position is to work closely with the business and IT to gain in-depth understanding of our warehouse custom applications and understand where any inefficiencies lie and work with internal stakeholders to correct them. This role will be key to understanding and documenting the capabilities needed to address business challenges and help the organization move to utilizing technology to drive business automation and increased value. The PM is responsible for reviewing assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks. Responsibilities will include a full range of activities from leading small to mid-size projects to assisting other project managers on larger more complex projects. Responsibilities: Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focusing on quality improvement and data management; ensuring data is reliable and valid; developing process improvements or re-engineering and recommending elimination; integrating new systems and processes with existing ones; and partnering with internal and external customers to ensure systems provided meet the long-term business strategies Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities Provide project level analysis - producing required project analysis documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals, UAT plan) Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive) Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction Qualifications: Must have experience working on large scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business 2-10 years of experience in business analysis and/or project management with at least 3 years of experience with internally built software solutions in logistics. Strong project management, ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills & communication skills Open to learning new technology and utilizing it to solve complex business challenges Proficient at designing scalable solutions that institute proactive frameworks Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment Bachelor's degree