Project Manager

Specright, Inc.; Chicago Heights (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Specification Management is seeking a Technical Project Manager to oversee project schedules, budgets, and governance. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally to deliver value, ensuring customer satisfaction through excellent project management practices while collaborating with sales, product, and engineering teams.

Benefits

Competitive salaries & equity packages

Open vacation policy & flexible work hours

Full benefits package including Medical, Vision, Life, Dental, 401k

Qualifications

• 5+ years in project management, business analyst, or related experience required.
• Experience with Enterprise software projects.
• Comfort presenting to C-suite executives.

Responsibilities

• Manage project phases to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Guide resources and customers to provide impactful solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to document requirements and produce user stories.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Problem-solving

Customer-centric approach

Education

PMP Certification

Tools

Salesforce.com

Smartsheets

Job description

Job Title: Technical Project Manager (Remote)

Job Summary: The Technical PM is a Specright Expert who is responsible for the project schedule, budget, and timeline and orchestrating activities to mitigate risk and hit targets jointly with customers. In this role, you will collaborate with our customers while providing best practice recommendations, consulting services, and expert project management governance to ensure the success of their implementation. You will work cross-functionally with teams including Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Customer Success, and Software Engineering.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Plan, organize and manage all phases of projects to ensure on time and on budget delivery, customer satisfaction, quality deliverables, and exceptional project governance to avoid scope creep and project risk.
• Able to guide resources and customers that provide impactful solutions resulting in highly referenceable accounts enabling strong adoption, renewal and upsell.
• Act as a Solution Consultant that can support conversations throughout the project lifecycle including active participation in requirements gathering sessions, strong understanding of solution best practice principles, assisting in QA testing and capable of discussing the solutions built for customers.
• Interact with business partners to learn and document requirements. Produce business requirements documents and user stories.
• Research customer needs and collaboratively plan solutions. Coordinate development to meet business requirements.
• Support development and and management of test cases and User Acceptance Testing
• Ability to forecast resource needs to execute the project on time and within budget
• High level of discipline with status updates, Salesforce.com hygiene, etc.
• Utilize Project management principles to establish full implementation plans including defining scope, deliverables, dependencies, duration estimates, resource estimates, risk identification and mitigation, and contingency planning.
• Have a strong ability to communicate project boundaries with customers and also negotiate mutual plans that keep projects on schedule, timeline and scope.
• Be customer-centric in style and approach, with a genuine desire to create and deliver value with outstanding customer experiences.
• Maintain up to date required product and project management knowledge.
• Collaborate with the Specright team to proactively uncover additional customer needs and possible upsell opportunities.
• Adopt and evangelize our Specright implementation methodology and provide ongoing input to maintain and enhance our methodology.

Qualifications

• Industry experience in Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Packaging or Supply Chain
• 5+ years of project management, business analyst, solution consultant or related experience required in SaaS, preferably Salesforce.com related
• Great communication skills to convey implementation objectives, project boundaries, and drive projects to successful outcomes for internal stakeholders and customers.
• Must be able to develop credibility and trust from customers and internal stakeholders with technical acumen on the solution and project management expertise.
• Comfort in presenting to C-suite executives on project health and discussing difficult topics to drive mutual resolution.
• Experience and ability to manage highly complex Enterprise software projects.
• Salesforce.com knowledge preferred but not required
• Smartsheets project management experience
• PMP Certification is preferred

About Specright

Specright is the first purpose-built, patented platform for Specification Management. Whether it's

packaging, raw materials, formulas, products, or machines, Specright helps companies digitize, map, and take action across their supply chain to reduce costs, increase profitability, and drive sustainability. Specright serves customers across industries, including packaging, food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, retail, industrials, and more. Recognized as a leader in Specification Management, Specright was named to the Deloitte Fast Technology 500 list in 2024, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2023, had three executives honored as Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know in 2023 and won Food Logistics' 2022 Top Software & Technology Provider award. For more information, visit: www.specright.com.

Perks

• Competitive salaries & equity packages
• Open vacation policy & flexible work hours
• Full benefits package that includes Medical, Vision, Life, Dental, 401k, etc