Project Management Lead

Description

3 Days a week onsite Full time

Some international/Domestic travel- Potential 10-20%

Required to bring own laptop/virtual device

Retail Store Concept – Project Management Lead

• This role is responsible for leading the cross functional project management of a new retail store concept opening in Q4 2025.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, agency management, and retail store operations, merchandising, and reporting.
• Additionally, knowledge of client processes and marketing activations is preferred.
• This role involves understanding the deliverables and timelines across the workstreams, leading the primary agency that will design, build and operate the store, leading the specific workstreams outlined below, and supporting the other workstream leaders to ensure the overall project meets the timelines and KPIs developed.

Key responsibilities include:

• Priority 1 - Lead project management for the proof-of-concept experiential store.
• With L&R functional leaders, agency partners, and local OU team leaders lead the overall project, workstream planning, and detailed timeline. Direct workstream leads and lean into workstream project plans to develop action items when needed.
• Track project budget and resources to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Serve as the main day to day main point of contact across the workstreams
• Lead 2-3 workstreams outlined below
• Support other workstream leaders to deliver their workstream identifying key dependencies and resolving competing timeline needs
• Maintain overall project board and task tracking
• Lead weekly project meetings and store result meetings
• Priority 2 - Lead design/construction/ operating agency management workstream relationship with agency that manages design, construction, consumer experience flow, instore visual merchandising, supply chain and ongoing operations of the store.
• With agency, lead the procurement and approval of design elements, logistics of merchandise, sourcing of F&B suppliers, onboarding of labor, and the opening event and continuing operations of the store.
• Priority 3 – Manage with merchandising leader the merchandise logistics, POS setup and Analysis & Reporting.
• Produce weekly and monthly reporting – including topline KPIs along with category, class, and item performance and productivity analysis.
• Partner with logistics agency and suppliers to manage the import process.
• Provide replenishment recommendations to merchant team and update open to buy on a monthly basis
• Priority 4 – Lead with external agency and retail operations team the can customization workstream including agency management and consumer end to end experience
• Support workstream leaders with their project plans
• Marketing (in store and out of home), PACS, Legal and IMCR teams to develop the marketing activations plan, end-to-end consumer experience, PR plan and all eventualities documented plan.

Education:

• College Degree