Project Manager I, SPN

Stord, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord is seeking a Program Manager, Professional Services, to lead the onboarding experience for new customers and help existing customers expand across channels, services, and products. You will work across Commercial, Implementation, Integration and Operations teams to ensure smooth deployments and continuous improvement.

You will partner with multiple stakeholders, manage a portfolio of projects, and travel up to 50% for critical milestones.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written) to communicate with internal and external stakeholders with clarity and precision.
• Versatile team player comfortable under pressure and able to push for clarification when needed.
• Strong drive and resilience to remove barriers and enable teams to achieve objectives.
• Experience in a cross-functional, customer-oriented change role such as a consultant, manager, or customer implementation manager in supply chain services, SaaS, or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage a portfolio of customer projects from onboarding to standalone WMS/OMS launches and Professional Services engagements.
• Partner with Commercial, Implementation, Integration, and Operations teams to drive onboarding from signature through hypercare and translate customer requests into requirements and SOPs.
• Balance multiple priorities, timelines, scope changes, and budgets while keeping customer and Stord goals in mind.
• Track progress and performance of onboarding processes and identify KPIs to improve efficiency and outcomes.
• Design and execute innovative technology solutions and implement new systems/processes for existing customers across our supply chain network.
• Provide feedback to refine and evolve Stord’s service offering and onboarding experience for new customers.
• Act as a culture ambassador for Stord values and continuously seek improvements in supply chain activities and across the organization.

Skills

Communication

Cross-functional

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Job description

ABOUT STORD

Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission. By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale. With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order. Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like True Classic, Native, Seed Health, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures.

About the Role

As a Program Manager, Professional Services, you will be the face of Stord as we grow our business and partnerships together with our customers. You will be responsible for driving the onboarding experience of new customers to Stord's supply chain solutions, as well as enabling the brand growth of existing customers as they launch new channels, services, and products to their end-customers.

What You'll Do

Maintain and successfully execute a portfolio of customer projects ranging from fulfillment onboarding to standalone (SW-only) WMS & OMS launches to Professional Services engagements; and gracefully and seamlessly adjust to rapidly changing priorities in that portfolio

Partner with Commercial, Implementation, Integration, and Operations team members to drive and own all aspects of Stord’s onboarding process from signature through hypercare, including systems, infrastructure, SOPs/training, testing, launch, post-deployment feedback, and translating customer enhancement requests to requirements and SOPs

Balance a number of internal and external priorities (i.e. customer business outcomes, resource limitations, tight timelines, evolving scope changes, milestone risks and project budget constraints) with discretion and thoughtfulness towards both customer and Stord goals

Track progress and performance in customer onboarding process (meeting timelines/scope commitments, delivering revenue), including identifying and implementing new KPIs and metrics to measure and improve our existing processes

Spearhead the design and execution of innovative technology solutions and implementation of new systems/processes for existing customers across our supply chain network, such as the deployment of new internal tools for employee use, or migrating customers from legacy systems to Stord software

Provide feedback to refine, develop and evolve Stord’s service offering, solution design process, and onboarding process and experience for new customers

Act as a culture warrior for Stord values, as well as an advocate for continuous improvement, by identifying opportunities and efficiencies in Supply Chain and across the organization

What You'll Need

Excellent communication skills (verbal, written), to communicate horizontally and vertically within the organization and externally to customer stakeholders, all with clarity, precision and succinctness

Willingness to be a versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure, bold in asking for clarification when the requirement or action item is unclear, and unafraid to challenge assumptions or expectations that are unfounded

The endless drive and resilience to remove barriers and enable teams to complete their objectives, and the charisma to lead and bring together members from functional, technical and operational to achieve program goals

Experience in a cross-functional, customer-oriented change role such as a consultant, manager, or customer implementation manager in a supply chain services, SaaS, and/or consulting environment

Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex, fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priorities, mitigating risks, and effectively managing limited resources

Enthusiastic desire to continuously iterate and improve existing tools and processes, with customer obsession and successful business outcomes as core drivers

Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% for customer-critical milestones such as kickoffs and go-lives; building strong customer relationships and leveraging effective partnership across local & remote Stord teams will be critical to your success in this role

Strongly Encouraged: Supply Chain or Logistics experience – in particular in implementing WMS, OMS, SaaS and/or fulfillment solutions

Functional and/or technical solution design experience Transformation experience – including business process change management and experience sunsetting legacy systems

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Stord participates in E-verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.