Associate Project Manager

Responsibilities Include:

- Leads cross functional projects and serves as a liaison between key stakeholders including functional units (e.g. Marketing, Supply Chain, Research & Development, Manufacturing, Legal etc.) and other Amway affiliates.

- Serves as the key point of contact for all aspects of the project; ensures smooth execution and delivery.

- Develops, manages and reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules and prepares communication reports.

- Assesses project issues and develops solutions to meet cost, quality, timing and delivery objectives

- Develops appropriate tools to monitor project progress and communicate appropriately to key stakeholders

- Representative projects may include new product development, product launches and promotions.

- Project support activity may include development, management and maintenance of the operational documents necessary for managing large, complex projects.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Related Experience:

Includes:

- Good computer systems acumen including Microsoft Project.

- Priority Management: Effectively oversees, coordinates, and integrates resources to support project and/or organizational goals; provides support and guidance to navigate the bureaucracy of the organization.

- Planning and Organizing: Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure work is completed efficiently and on time, on profile and on budget.

- Issues Resolution: Uses sound judgment to escalate issues for quick resolution; allows for challenges to be alleviated with a sense of urgency.

- Knowledge of the Business: Ability to interpret and apply the key internal and external drivers that affect the business, including financial, political, cultural and industry trends in support of diverse and globally distributed teams.

- Interpret Data: Ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from technical or business material.

Also Includes:

- Communicate Business Information: Effectively communicating and presenting complex data (both verbally and written) to influence all levels and global audiences; helps others understand data and translate it into actionable business insights.

- Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically and understand the broader view. Demonstrates an understanding of the long-term, big picture view of needs and opportunities.

- Agility: Ability to work independently and collaboratively on multiple projects in a dynamic environment.

- Leadership: Ability to prioritize and successfully manage project deliverables on time, on cost and on profile for sub teams, maintenance and market expansion projects, Successful when given ambiguous, unclear, or inconsistent information and delivers to customer and stakeholder expectations.

- Relationship Management: Ability to develop and maintain effective and productive relationships, including ability to influence, negotiate and manage conflicts effectively and constructively with clients, vendors and peers.

- Team Management: Develops relationships and trust with team members, able to drive team member accountability and desired behaviors, able to work independently and collaboratively on multiple projects in a dynamic environment

- Critical Thinking: Ability to formulate conclusions and recommendations using facts and data, business analysis, deductive reasoning and sound judgment.

- Personal Accountability: Should own up the accountability of the project as a whole.

Related Experience:

- 3 5 years work experience in planning and tracking projects.

- Former Project Management experience.

- Knowledge of Amway business.

MBA/PGFBM preferred