Zllius Inc. is an IT & engineering high tech consulting company. We are globalized team with high intelligence of most trusted services provided on one platform. We discover client’s ambitious and insights to convert imagination into reality. We believe in the importance of digital world technologies with proving ourselves as to be trustable and most reliable service providers. We resolve the challenges in the online world; we support to own online space in competitive world. Zllius Inc. has an opening for a Supply Chain Project Manager at our main office in Hoffman Estates, IL and resource might need to travel to client location as requested by client within U.S.A.  

Zllius Inc. Management Resources provides interim, staff augmentation and project resources with mid and senior-level expertise in the areas of Information Technology and Engineering.   

Job Description Summary:  

Zllius Inc.  is seeking an ambitious and enthusiastic Supply Chain Project Manager to join a growing team and work passionately selling temporary staffing and consulting services in the Information Technology and Engineering space.  

A strong candidate must demonstrate the ability to create the leads with clients to get the projects and build strong ties with 100% result oriented. The ideal candidate would understand research methodologies commonly utilized and be able to design a research methodology with limited client input.  

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Leads Supply Chain Execution SCE projects in the resolution of customer project issues, escalating to appropriate parties as needed across warehouse management, transportation management, order management
• Collaborates with appropriate resources on customer's business, organization, and culture to strengthen their credibility as trusted advisors 
• Helps validate and produce appropriate baseline project plans and templates.
• Assists in generating Statement of Work and customer proposal documents for future work after the initial assessment. 
• Works with appropriate parties to plan project resource requirements
• Provides guidance, feedback, coaching, and developmental experiences to project team members 
• Assesses project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge 
• Ensures project team adheres to policies, procedures, methodologies, and quality standards 
• Provide feedback to the consultant team.
• Project planning and time management. Know the workload of the team and project requirements to balance assignments during the project.
• Manages services engagements including interactions with client project team and client executives 
• Resolves all project issues including budget, timeline, accounts receivable, scope changes, software functionality and technology 
• Keep updated an internal and external issue log
• Tracking and follow-up of the issues to resolve them as soon as possible 
• Provides regular project communication and status reporting including financial status of the project to client and internal management. 
• Track the budget for the billable projects. Forecast variances to have adjustments made to the budget. 
• Keeps individual expenses within budget
• Manages project quality to ensure customer satisfaction
• Ensures that projects deliver the value/ROI sold with the engagement
• Records billable time to customer, as appropriate
• Perform a risk assessment of each project phase
• Detect risks in a timely manner and provide actions to mitigate them before becoming an escalation
• Escalates issues that may have negative financial impact
• Manages service engagement budgets
• Reviews billing for all active accounts
• Maximizes margin on service engagements 
• Ensures supporting project documentation is in order and submitted timely 
• Assess project performance and communicates lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge 
• Build and maintain close relations with implementation team to ensure understanding of original design and configuration.

Experience & Knowledge

• Knowledgeable of Retail systems functionality and technology
• heavy hitter Project Managers with Supply Chain experience.
• PMP or any other Project manager certification is a PLUS.
• Proven experience working as a Project Manager or similar capacity.
• Demonstrated project leadership experience in Supply Chain execution SCE capacity i.e. Order Management, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Manufacturing Execution Systems.
• Knowledgeable of project management best practices.
• Skilled at leading and coordinating across diverse teams to achieve desired outcomes.
• Ability to resolve complex problems with little to no guidance.
• Capable of facilitating (design sessions, conflict resolutions, brainstorming, etc.).
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor, coach and train.
• Excellent communication, client relationship and analytical skills. 
• Skilled at leading difficult discussions and provide multiple options on a complex topic. Drive a resolution or bring other parties into the discussion to gain agreement. 
• Well organized and consistently meets commitments. 
• Negotiation skills

Education:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or Management Information Systems or related field

Work Location & Physical Requirements:

• This position primarily works in an office environment. It requires frequent sitting, standing and walking. Daily use of a computer and other computing and digital devices is required. May stand for extended periods when facilitating meetings or walking in the facilities.
• The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods.