Job Title: Project Manager, Global Store Design
Primary Purpose: The Project Manager, Global Store Design serves as the central coordinator for international store design initiatives, overseeing project schedules, milestone tracking, and cross-functional communication throughout the project lifecycle. This role drives accountability, facilitates informed decision-making, and ensures projects remain on track to meet key business and store opening objectives.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in project management to... Maintain Project Schedules & Stakeholder Communication:- Manage project timelines for all international store projects, including new builds, renovations, enhancements, temporary stores and closures ensuring alignment with design development and construction milestones.
- Track critical design activities, monitor schedule changes, and provide visibility into project status, risks and forecasts.
- Coordinate design review meetings, including agenda preparation and prioritization of key projects.
- Lead regular project check-ins and milestone reviews; ensure stakeholders are informed of deadlines and risks and are accountable.
- Serve as the primary liaison across design, construction, operations, and external partners to support effective communication, coordination, and project delivery.
- Work with Project Portfolio Manager, North America, to coordinate cross-functional project execution.
Milestone Tracking, Process Optimization & Reporting:- Track project progress against key milestones and ensure schedule adherence throughout the project lifecycle.
- Prepare and distribute weekly project schedules, status updates, and reports for leadership and project teams.
- Develop and maintain executive dashboards and portfolio reporting for store openings, closures, renovations, remodels, and pipeline activity.
- Identify opportunities to improve scheduling, tracking, and reporting processes, driving efficiency and adoption of best practices.
Risk Identification & Mitigation:- Identify and assess risks that may impact key design milestones, project schedules, or store opening dates.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate impacts and develop effective strategies.
- Drive proactive issue resolution and provide leadership with timely risk, issue, and escalation reporting.
The accomplished individual will possess... - Bachelor's degree in project management, construction management, architecture, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience in project scheduling or coordination within retail, architecture, or construction environments.
- Strong understanding of international processes and landlord requirements.
- Proficiency in scheduling tools (MS Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com or similar) and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills; ability to influence and drive accountability across teams.
- Detail-oriented and proactive, with a focus on meeting deadlines and mitigating risks.
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Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People ManagersStrategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
Base Pay Range$90,000.00-$100,000.00
Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.