Senior Project Manager

Big Lots; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Lots in Chesapeake, VA is seeking a Senior Project Manager who combines clear communication with decisive problem-solving and ownership. You’ll prepare reports, coordinate schedules, and manage confidential information with good judgment.

You bring a growth mindset and empathy to guide conversations toward decisions, read rooms, and chase root causes with vendors and customers. The position offers a salary range of $86,000–$134,000 per year with growth coaching, mentoring, benefits, and

Qualifications

• Clear communication and presentation skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Empathy in feedback and collaboration.
• Ability to take ownership and drive results.

Responsibilities

• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for review by leadership
• Coordinate scheduling, resources, and logistics for assigned tasks
• Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
• Notice the craft-focused gap between the spec and the shipped thing
• Represent Big Lots professionally with vendors, partners, and customers
• Chase down the root cause instead of slapping on a patch
• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Problem Solving to each audience

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Empathy

Ownership mindset

Job description

On any given day, the Senior Project Manager at Big Lots juggles Communication and Problem Solving, and somehow makes both look deliberate. With ownership, a $86,000 - $134,000 salary, and 7 years of Emotional Intelligence to draw on, you'll do your best work at Big Lots.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for review by leadership
• Coordinate scheduling, resources, and logistics for assigned tasks
• Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
• Notice the craft-focused gap between the spec and the shipped thing
• Represent Big Lots professionally with vendors, partners, and customers
• Chase down the root cause instead of slapping on a patch
• Read the room and adjust how you pitch Problem Solving to each audience

What You’ll Bring

• Proven Growth Mindset judgment when the textbook answer doesn’t fit
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly
• Comfort steering general conversations toward a decision
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire

Big Lots is a question-everything Chesapeake, VA company born from the belief that general tools should respect the people using them. We celebrate Written Communication craftsmanship and hold ourselves to a high bar on the details that matter.

We set the base at $86,000 - $134,000 and build outward with growth coaching, a mentor, benefits, and hours you genuinely control.

Confirmed active this hour for the Chesapeake, VA crew, no waiting list.