Associate Project Manager

RS Group; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

RS Group is seeking an Associate Technology Project Manager to deliver small to medium projects under the guidance of senior PMs. You will manage scope, timelines, and stakeholder communications while developing your project leadership competencies.

The role offers a development path toward a full Project Manager and eventually a Senior Project Manager position. Responsibilities include coordinating resources, maintaining governance, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Qualifications

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing small to medium projects or workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and successfully complete small to medium projects within larger efforts.
• Monitor and control project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Lead project teams and allocate tasks while motivating staff.
• Act as liaison between customers, suppliers, and senior stakeholders.
• Ensure formal project closure and lessons learned are captured.
• Evaluate technical options and align decisions with organizational strategies.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Job description

As an Associate Technology Project Manager, you will be relatively new to the role of Project Manager with previous experience working with an IT environment. You will be responsible for delivering small to medium-sized projects or workstreams within larger projects, with the support and direction of more senior Project Managers. This role offers a pathway to becoming a Project Manager and subsequently a Senior Project Manager.

What You Will Be Doing

• Project Management: Define, document, and successfully complete small to medium-sized projects and workstreams within larger projects. Ensure realistic project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and maintained. Monitor and control team performance against plans.
• Resource Management: Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated revenue costs, and all capital costs against the project budget. Ensure a change control procedure is in place and actively used.
• Team Leadership: Lead one or more project teams, allocating and monitoring tasks, motivating staff, and supporting individual performance.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the liaison between the Senior project manager, customer and supplier organizations, enabling effective and efficient communication. Manage internal and external stakeholders as necessary on all project phases.
• Project Closure: Ensure projects are formally closed and reviewed, capturing lessons learned and taking appropriate action.
• Technical Evaluation: Evaluate and make recommendations/decisions on technical options in line with organizational strategies.
• Governance: Work within the defined organizational governance framework, possibly under the oversight of a project/program management office.
• Travel: UK travel, including overnight stays, may be required to support site migrations and attend supplier meetings.

Experience

• Previous experience managing projects, specifically third-party projects. Ideally, experience with supply chain or infrastructure-related projects.

Technical Knowledge

• Some experience of technology and technology delivery with a passion for delivery. Ability to translate technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.

Project Management

• Good grounding in traditional project management governance practices. Experience managing small projects and workstreams.

Communication

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to inspire and influence teams and senior executives alike.

Soft Skills

• Excellent negotiation skills, ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks, assign and manage work activities, meet deadlines, and develop project management reporting.

Analytical Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication and analytical skills.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values - We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Our Reward Philosophy

Our reward philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

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