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Lowe's Business Project Manager — Global Merchandising in Mooresville, North Carolina

Your Impact

The primary responsibility of the Project Manager, Global Merchandising is to lead and manage the progress and completion of assigned initiatives, projects, and events, which includes facilitating the coordination of Merchandising, International Sourcing, Corporate Events, IT, Private Brand Services, Quality Assurance, Vendors, and others including import and domestic partner teams to ensure overall initiative goals are met. This includes responsibility for ensuring initiatives, and projects, and events are completed in a manner consistent with the management and execution of corporate and departmental goals and guidelines. This role may be responsible for leading anywhere from 3-5 projects simultaneously. This position will drive the improvement and creation of processes and deliverables, using a business lens and balancing enterprise priorities.

What you will do

• Leads and manages designated work streams to meet customer and business needs by translating business plans into tactical action items by process mapping, creation of project documents including building presentations, communicating goals and objectives, aligning cross functional team efforts, and building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results.

• Consults with primary business owners to discuss, identify, and address improvement opportunities, and alternative solutions as needed to gain alignment on decisions made to meet initiative/project objectives.

• Collaborates with stakeholders across various business area and subject matter experts to deliver solutions that will increase efficiencies, drive cost out, and improve customer service for the benefits of internal and external customers.

• Oversees identification and scheduling of deliverables, costs, milestones, resources and confers with management to provide direction and resolve challenges.

• Completes status reports and modifies schedules and plans as required; regularly communicates project status and related challenges to management through both formal and informal presentations and provides recommendations.

• Analyzes customer needs and formulates/defines scope and objectives of assigned initiatives/projects and solutions.

• Identifies innovative ways for measuring and improving customer engagement or business operations Identifies and makes recommendations for actionable insights for relevant stakeholders, ensuring solutions are best-in-class, implementable and scalable in business based on data.

• Directs the planning and preparation of business proposals and makes recommendations to senior management.

• Coordinate with business, and other areas to identify and address training, communication and change management needs.

• Anticipates potential problems, instigates mitigation solutions, and actively problem solves through root cause analysis across process, people, and technology.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Business Administration, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field). and 4 years' experience in program and project management

• 2 years leadership experience with direct report responsibility, comfortable managing teams with 5+ people. Expert in project life cycle methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.), stakeholder. management, conflict resolution, executive communication (written, verbal, etc.

• 4 years' experience developing project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) / User Stories used to create project schedules and estimates

• Experience managing operational or project/program financial budgets

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1-2 years corporate experience, retail a plus

• 4 years' experience in enterprise project planning and coordination and working on projects or programs requiring the integration of cross-functional solutions

• 2 years' experience using formal business process improvement methodologies

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI or other project/program management certification; Agile/Scrum/SAFe

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Pay Range: $81,200.00 - $135,400.00 annually Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.

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