Project Manager I

Project Manager I

BCForward is currently seeking a highly motivated Project Manager I for an opportunity in United States.

Position Title: Project Manager I

Location: Menlo Park, CA preferred

Anticipated Start Date: 05/13/2024.

Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCForward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 9 Months.

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $40-$45/hr. on W2.

Please note that actual compensation may vary within this range due to factors such as location, experience, and job responsibilities, and does not encompass additional non-standard compensation (e.g., benefits, paid time off, per diem, etc.).

Job Title: Project Manager I

Duration: 9 months

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Guide researchers through Client's Purchasing process, including supporting contract requests and raising purchase orders for new research projects.
• Manage procurement related projects to drive critical process optimizations and solutions.
• Advise Purchasing Coordinators and UX Researchers on best practices.
• Partner with Purchasing Program Manager to ensure trackers and dashboards are consistently and accurately updated to inform on team insights and process gaps.
• Maintain oversight of purchasing queues and overall team timelines
• Communicate vendor processes and triage questions in support of UX Researchers
• Prepare regular reports and presentations for leadership (weekly, monthly, quarterly), highlighting key metrics to inform business strategy.
• Maintain up-to-date vendor resources (SOPs, Documents, Team Wiki, Toolkits, etc) for UX Research teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of administrative or project management experience
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with peers, cross-functional stakeholders, and senior management.
• Ability to multi-task and execute multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Track record of operating independently, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems and find solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
• Experience understanding stakeholder needs, gathering requirements, and crafting solutions.
• Ability to effectively communicate to a variety of audiences from Engineers to Vendors, to Researchers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with data analysis and data analytics tools
• Prior experience in procurement
• Prior experience working in an early-stage environment with lots of ambiguity and moving parts.
• Prior experience working with User Experience Research, operational risk, compliance, and/or vendor procurement.
• Proficiency in SQL and Data Visualization Tools (Tableau, Salesforce, etc.)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required.

BCForward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCForward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCForward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 222025 when responding to this ad.

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