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RJW Logistics Group

Integration Project Manager

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In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
90K-110K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
90K-110K Annually
Senior level
Manage end-to-end integration projects by aligning teams, tracking timelines, engaging external technology partners, handling scope changes, identifying and mitigating risks, and improving project processes using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Serve as primary client/vendor contact and translate technical issues for non-technical stakeholders.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Pay: $90,000 - $110,000 annually + MyShare Equity Program


Job Purpose:

The Project Manager will oversee project delivery by aligning the team toward goals, managing timelines, and addressing blockers to ensure timely completion. Responsibilities include planning and coordinating project activities, such as allocating resources, managing team workloads, and tracking progress to meet milestones. The role also involves serving as the primary point of contact between external stakeholders (clients, vendors) and the internal team, ensuring alignment on expectations, scope, and changes while providing regular status updates. Additionally, the Project Manager will identify risks early, implement mitigation strategies, and handle scope and change requests.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Engage with external technology partners
  • Conduct administrative duties surrounding project management
  • Communicate business updates between internal RJW departments
  • Support project preparations
  • Develop process improvements involving project management
  • Utilize both Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • A Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of project management experience
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Project Management skills including organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from vision through implementation
  • Excellent verbal, written, organizational, and time management skills
  • Detail oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills
  • Exceptional teamwork and interpersonal skills
  • Strong change management skills
  • Action-oriented, "can do" attitude demonstrating willingness to accept accountability and responsibility for individual actions

Must also demonstrate a sense of urgency, take initiative, sense of ownership of their work, strong team player, constant desire to improve, positive attitude, and willing to learn and experience a new environment.

Qualifications:

  • Conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies
  • Experience with EDI Transactions:
    • 940, 945, 856, 850, 943, 944, 846, 947, 204, 990, 214, 210
  • Prior experience with SaaS procurement and implementation
  • Knowledge of EDI/Integration technology with an emphasis on EDI, API, SQL, and ERP’s
  • Experience in creating / maintaining technical and training documentation
  • Strategic planning and operations experience within IT/Integrations department.
  • The ability to translate technical issues into everyday language.
  • Synapse (WMS), McLeod (TMS), experience is preferred but not required.
  • Experience writing basic SQL queries
  • Experience working with Oracle, SQL, and Linux databases


Education and/or Experience Required:

  • Undergraduate degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration or related field or 5+ years of experience in EDI/IT Integrations or as a technical BA focused on data integration and process improvement

Language Skills Sets:

  • Strong English language skills.

Mathematical Skills:

  • College-level math skills required.

Reasoning Ability:

  • Strong reasoning ability required, ability to develop and understand complex logic flows.

Computer Skills:

  • Advanced computer skills required.

Physical Demands:

  • Light lifting required.
  • Mobility within office environment.
  • Requires extensive visual contact with computer screens and data input.
  • Must be articulate and comfortable speaking in front of others.
  • Regularly works in an indoor/office environment and required to sit and/or use repetitive hand motion.
  • Frequently required to talk, hear, stand, and walk.
  • Must be able to work in excess of continuous 8 hours when required.
  • Must be able to work under stressful situations, have good cognitive skills, maintain work accuracy, and the ability to concentrate on more than one task at a time.
  • Must be able to speak and communicate clearly over telephones.
  • Must be in sound physical health as determined by a certified licensed physician with no evidence of the use of controlled substances.

Work Environment:

  • While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, and fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment will range from quiet to moderately loud.

Employer Rights:

This job description is intended to provide general information about the Integration Project Manager position. The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of the job duties to be performed by an associate holding the position of Integration Project Manager, nor are the lists of the physical requirements and environmental conditions exhaustive. You may be asked by your supervisor or managers to perform other duties. Your performance will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the job duties listed in this job description, as well as any job duties not specifically listed above that you may be asked from time to time to perform.

As with all positions, the duties and responsibilities are subject to change at any time as needs arise and at the discretion of the RJW Transport, Inc. The Company has the right to revise this job description at any time.


Employment-At-Will:

It is the Company’s policy that all associates, other than those covered by a written individual employment or labor agreement with the Company that has been authorized in writing by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer or Board of Directors, are not employed for any fixed term and are employed at the will of the Company for an indefinite period. Just as our associate’s, reserve the right to resign their employment at any time for any reason the Company reserves its right to terminate an associate any time for any reason either with or without cause.

Neither this Job Description nor any of its individual terms constitutes commitments between the Company and its associates as to the terms, conditions, or duration of employment, nor does it modify the prevailing Employment-At-Will relationship.

Benefits:

401(k) matching
Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
Employee discount
Flexible spending account
Health savings account
Paid time off
Sick Days
Long-term Disability Insurance
Short-term Disability Insurance
Accidental Insurance
Critical Illness Insurance
MyShare program

Compensation & BenefitsWe offer a competitive benefits package that includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability, paid holidays, time off, retirement savings plan participation, and additional employee programs.
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