Project Manager
Join a fast-paced, innovative, data-driven company named 2021 Best Tech Start ups In Chicago, that is changing the Supply Chain industry through real time tracking and end-to-end visibility.
FourKites is looking for a Project Manager to join our growing team! Your success is a key to our success and your contribution will help take the company to new levels. Fast paced and multiple projects will keep you excited and engaged.
Responsibilities:
The Project Manager will be responsible for managing the effective implementation of various internal projects. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop project plans. You will execute those plans in partnership with cross-functional teams, communicate progress and obstacles associated with each project, and ensure risks are mitigated as you deliver completed projects based on resources, budgets, and timelines.
- Create and manage project calendars
- Map out tasks required to implement projects timely
- Plan and implement projects
- Assist in defining project scope, goals and deliverables
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting project progress, along with eliminating barriers to project success
- Manage project budgets
- Present to stakeholders reports on progress as well as problems and solutions
- Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project outputs
- Evaluate and assess result of project
- Experience utilizing project management tools
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Minimum of 2 years of project management experience
- PMP Certification is a plus
- Ability to arrange and run meetings effectively, resulting in clear objectives and tasks
About the team:
Our Global team is passionate, innovative and collaborative. We work across two geographically distributed cities on two separate continents to collaboratively deliver industry disrupting solutions, offering Fortune 1000 customers real-time visibility, predictive intelligence, advanced analytics, and many more exciting products to power their transportation world.
Named one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, FourKites is on a mission to transform the world’s supply chains with the most powerful technology on the planet. With a customer base that includes 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies and nine of the top-10 CPG companies, the company combines the largest network of real-time logistics data with machine learning to help its customers lower costs, improve on-time performance and strengthen end-customer relationships. We are a customer-obsessed organization, wholeheartedly committed to helping our customers succeed and drive long-term value.
The empathy we exhibit with our customers applies internally, as well. At FourKites, a positive work culture is a priority, and team members benefit from structured employee development plans, mentorship and training programs, quarterly review and promotions processes, affinity group memberships and competitive benefits packages. Click here to learn more about our team and our corporate values.
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