Project Manager

A passion for technology and innovation unites us in the Digital&Technologies branch, our customers and our employees. Would you like to join us, contribute to our growth and bring a little innovation of your own?

We are looking for a Reality Labs Field Merchandising Manager to work remotely. The primary role of the RL Field Merchandising Manager is to ensure that all field merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are operating and functioning properly

Responsibilities

• Prioritize large volumes of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with guidance from the Field Merchandising Lead.
• Partner closely with internal and external key partners on a regular basis to align and drive impact and results with the utmost efficiency and accuracy while moving fast.
• Build highly detailed execution plans for a variety of initiatives across multiple product lines.
• Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail.
• Understand display fixture production process and installation implementation processes to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables to share cross functionally both internally and externally.
• Critical to understand various retailer 3rd party labor operations to drive best in class execution.
• Track field execution, including progress and results, and prepare reports for internal stakeholders.
• Analyze demo data, flag potential roadblocks and work with external partners to ensure in store demo compliance.
• W closely with the Field Merchandising Lead to ensure all 3rd party labor projects are to budget.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience on either the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising.
• 10+ years of corporate experience in pan-European roles
• Management experience of stakeholders and vendors across Emea, specifically Italy and France
• 10+ years of project management experience
• 5+ years of third-party labor management experience
• Consumer Electronics experience
• Outstanding budget management/reporting skills. Finance background is a plus
• Proven ability to understand the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines.
• Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail with ability to track and articulate the intricacies of complex fixture installations.
• Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
• Must have experience partnering with external stakeholders.
• Excellent at finding the root cause of issues or gathering the necessary cross-functional members to find that cause or solution to an issue.
• Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.
• Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.
• Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communication.
• Experience with Google G suite and Microsoft suite of software applications
• Italian speaker

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in planning large-scale executions and installations from concept stage through prototype and production stages.
• Experience working in a highly cross-functional setting.
• Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility.
• Mobile Carrier and/or Specialty Retailer experience.
• Experience with in-store tech demos or tech in a retail setting

If you want to try your hand at working in a dynamic and innovative environment, send us your application: we look forward to hearing from you!