Senior Project Manager (Ecommerce Domain Experience Mandatory)

Company Description

McFadyen Digital is the leading advisor and implementer of eCommerce Marketplace solutions.  During 15 years of implementing marketplaces, we’ve built dozens of platforms that cumulatively generate billions of dollars of gross merchandise value (GMV).  We’re honored to have supported 10% of the Fortune 500 with their digital marketplace initiatives.  Over 250 global brands like ABB, AB InBev, ACCO, Albertsons, American Red Cross, American Eagle Outfitters, US Army, US Agriculture Dept, (and many more) have entrusted their digital transformations to McFadyen. We operate global offices across the US, Brazil, and India. McFadyen Digital has been a trusted employer for 35 years and believes that people are the most important part of our company.  We’re proud of our Great Place to Work certification.   

Learn more about us at our website: www.mcfadyen.com   

Job Description

Do you have a passion for leading innovative eCommerce and marketplace solutions for top-tier clients? Can you effectively communicate with architects, developers, and designers in a fast-paced environment? Do you have the expertise to manage complex projects that integrate various sales channels and deliver exceptional user experiences? If so, we want to hear from you! 

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and manage large-scale, highly complex eCommerce and marketplace projects. Your strong customer management skills will ensure smooth project deployments and foster new business development. You will build and lead teams of talented consultants to provide world-class solutions to our clients. You will be accountable for overall project management, including scheduling, resource coordination, scope control, cost management, technical issue resolution, and developing project work plans. 

TOP 5 Responsibilities 

1. Manage customer expectations and communicate effectively with sales, development teams, and corporate management. 

2. Oversee the documentation of requirements analysis, design specifications, test plans, and executive briefings. 

3. Actively participate in new business development, including estimating project scope, costs, duration, and resource requirements in written proposals. 

4. Provide leadership in web project management and full life-cycle systems development and implementation. 

5. Analyze and document clients' specific business processes and IT needs. 

6. Recommend best practice solutions based on experience, research, and visionary thinking. 

Other Responsibility:

• Ensure high-quality, on-time deliverables within budget. 

• Implement and revise Agile-based project methodologies as technologies and solutions evolve. 

• Assist in recruiting, managing, and mentoring employees. 

• Travel to customer sites as needed. 

• Provide weekly written status reports and expense reports. 

Qualifications

• Knowledge of resource allocation and planning. 

• Experience with offshore and onshore development models. 

• Hands-on experience leading large-scale Agile software development efforts. 

• Strong management skills, including resource planning, setting expectation levels, scheduling, mentoring, and prioritizing. 

• Experience with scope management. 

• Proven track record of managing high-visibility, large-scale projects. 

• Experience with project finances, including cost and schedule performance index. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical issues. 

• Mastery of project management tools such as Microsoft Project. 

• Strong background in eCommerce solutions or web system integration, especially in large-scale commerce. 

• Integrity and drive to make and deliver achievable commitments. 

• Strong oral communication skills, including customer interaction, requirements analysis, business process reengineering, and training. 

• Written communication experience with project work plans, statements of work, and executive briefings. 

• Understanding of system design and development environments. 

• Familiarity with best practice methodologies. 

• High-level understanding of relevant technologies. 

• PMI PMP certification is a plus. 

• Familiarity with enterprise internet platforms is a plus. 

What We Can Offer You 

• A career with thought leaders who literally wrote the book on Marketplace Best Practices.    

• A career in the fast-paced world of retail eCommerce, digital marketplaces, and platform businesses.     

• A career with first movers who are deploying new business models and strategies worldwide.    

• A career in a flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy and bureaucracy.    

• A career in a culture that rewards creativity and innovation, risk-taking and teamwork.   

Additional Information

Our Core Values: Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptable, Caring     

McFadyen’s goal is to ensure that our clients are able to maximize the return on their technology investment by providing better service to their clients, partners and internal teams. At McFadyen we truly believe our employees are our most valuable asset. Across our locations in the US, Brazil, and India, we offer a world class work culture that enables top notch delivery for some of the world’s most influential companies.   

McFadyen Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law, where applicable.