Company Summary

Loftware’s end-to-end cloud-based labeling platform helps businesses of all sizes manage labeling across their operations and supply chain; our solutions are used to print over 51 billion labels every year. Offering the industry’s most comprehensive digital platform, with SaaS, cloud-based and on-premise solutions, Loftware redefines how enterprises create, manage and print complex labeling and packaging artwork and scale across their operations.

Loftware solutions integrate with SAP®, Oracle®, and other enterprise applications to produce mission-critical barcode labels, documents, RFID smart tags and packaging artwork. Our combined platform – whether for labeling, artwork management or both – enables customers to uniquely meet regulatory mandates, mitigate risk, reduce complexity, ensure traceability, improve time to market and optimize costs as they meet customer-specific, brand, regional and regulatory requirements with unprecedented speed and agility. Loftware is a multinational corporation with entities in the US, Slovenia, the UK, Germany, Singapore and China.

Job Overview: Project Manager

The role of Project Manager is responsible for the successful planning and execution of Loftware portfolio management, process improvement, project management, and delivery team support. This role manages the factors that govern project and program success; the management and delivery of tasks within time, scope and budget as well as delivering functionality agreed to within the initiatives.

This role provides project management support for other Loftware projects and assure that sound project management processes are created, implemented, monitored and maintained across the company.

**Location: **Remote, East Coast time zone.

Responsibilities:

Project portfolio monitoring and control.
Actively provide project management support to project delivery teams with the goal to improve internal team growth and project performance.
Create, innovate, improve, document, and educate on new processes, templates, and SOPs.
Understand Loftware technical systems architectural solutions.
Prepare detailed project plan for multi-phase initiatives.
Ensure that projects are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
Provide remote leadership for delivery teams by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities, Loftware best practices, processes, methodologies and project milestones.
Manage initiative scope, time management and changes per program scope.
Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved team members throughout program life cycle.
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management. Autonomously work with reports, ideally largely automated via Professional Services Automation (PSA) system.
Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
Prepare configuration/design effort estimates to justify resource planning and allocation. Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel with a clearly defined scope, effort and required delivery timelines.
Coach, mentor, and motivate project team members and proactively communicate specific adjustments needed.
Prioritize and manage solution quality issues and escalations with respective departments.
Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
Proactively research and communicate additional opportunities for expansion within the existing customer base (land and expand).
Instill trustworthy and resourceful relationship between customers and Loftware.
Assure that sound project management processes are established and maintained.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business or related
5+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning
5+ years of experience working with business stakeholders within a cross- functional matrix environment.
Senior-level experience in PM Methodologies (Agile, PRINCE2, PMBOK, ), activity and resource planning with enterprise software projects.
Advanced competency with software programs to manage projects, including but not limited to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Microsoft Project, Technical Design Specifications, and Functional Specifications in Validated and non-Validated environments.
Experience with com and Financial Force (PSA) is a plus
PMP certification is a plus

Soft Skills:

Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead across multiple physical teams and physical regions.
Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills.
Experience leading, motivating and managing various project team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding teams accountable for performance.
Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines.
Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business objective.
Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment.
Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities.
Approach tasks with an innovative, adaptive and curious mindset.

We win with inclusion

At Loftware, inclusion, diversity, and belonging are paramount to our success and our culture. We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, gender, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential.

Why join us?

Working for the undisputed global leader in a business-critical industry offers unparalleled possibilities.
Our team is made up of the most talented, curious, and inspiring people in their fields, each bringing something unique to the table.
We use the power of the global team.
We set you up for success. We offer comprehensive training to all employees and place an emphasis on employee development.

#Makeyourmark with Loftware and apply today!