Overview
We are seeking a full-time Senior Project Manager Retail Marketing at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for project managing all aspects of global point-of-sale (POS) and/or in-store marketing development.
Essential Functions
- Leads a project team and plans, forecasts and successfully project manages full product life cycle retail marketing projects of any scale or complexity
- Successfully mentors and trains others on Garmin’s retail marketing processes, procedures, brand style guide, SharePoint, Jira, Tableau, Oracle, and/or other IT approved software upon leadership request
- Works with the Retail Marketing team to verify their retailer logistics information is accurate, continually updated to the retailer’s current compliance requirements, and easily accessible by necessary partners
- Oversees and negotiates assigned 3PL Retail Marketing contracts
- Develops and maintains a 3PL Retail Marketing program supplier guide that adheres to Garmin’s procedures
- Forecasts, tracks, reports, and communicates 3PL inventory for retail marketing programs and recommends OBS
- Attends onsite marketing discussions, captures meeting notes, and distributes to necessary parties upon leadership request
- Monitors detailed project development schedules, creates regular reports, and advises Retail Marketing leadership on internal and external resource capacity and project prioritization as well as evaluates level of effort and FTE requirements for projects and uses this information to make project resourcing recommendations to Retail Marketing leadership
- Recommends any corrective actions needed to ensure successful project implementations
- Recommends process improvements
- Uses Garmin IT approved tools to improve processes, forecasting, project status documentation, communications, resourcing, approvals, inventory, or other assets as needed
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Ability to submit and gain feedback on Garmin ITTPR Third Party Assessments
- Experience working with IT to use and/or develop full product lifecycle project management tools
- Extensive project management, capacity planning, and forecasting knowledge
- Must be detail-oriented and work proactively and effectively with minimal supervision to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and multi-task in a flexible, fast paced, and challenging environment
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail and quality assurance
- Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude, and work well with others
- Creates and maintains cohesive relationships with customers, suppliers, and Garmin associates
- Driven problem solver with proven success in solving difficult problems
- Must demonstrate a proven track record in providing excellent customer service
- Demonstrated ability to deal with confidential company matters
- Demonstrated ability to complete complex tasks
- Demonstrated ability to understand retail merchant terminology
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Jira, Tableau, and Oracle or related software
- Must possess the ability to bend, twist and lift up to 55 pounds while using safe lifting techniques
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Employment Benefits
