Project Manager

CombineNet is seeking to hire experienced Project Managers with a background in transportation, consulting, software development, professional services delivery, sourcing and optimization.

Candidates should have a minimum of 3-5 years experience in a client interfacing project management capacity with several clients, preferably Fortune 500 companies. Focus in at least one of the following areas is required: Purchasing, sourcing, supply chain management, transportation, production planning, inventory management, and/or optimization. Transportation and supply chain management experience is especially relevant.

Key Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

  • Estimation of work effort for projects and composition of Statements of Work
  • Ability to model problems and formulate problem space and solution approach
  • Management of software engineers and data specialists to ensure delivery of solutions to clients
  • Management of project timelines, issue resolution, change management, training and client support
  • Balancing multiple project demands simultaneously
  • Assuring proper billing of client for professional services rendered
  • Assisting Sales Team with business development
  • Demonstration of software to potential and/or current clients

Skill set required:

  • Bachelor's degree in business or technical field
  • MBA preferred, additional relevant experience otherwise
  • Strong analytical skills and strong skills in data/problem modeling
  • Ability to learn quickly
  • Good communication and presentation skills
  • Solid problem solving capabilities
  • Comfort with fast-paced, deadline-intensive projects
  • Facility with project management tools, i.e. MS Project, essential
  • Flexible travel schedule
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Ability to research reported issues and manage through identification and resolution
  • Ability/Interest in doing whatever it takes to make the client/project/company successful
  • Ability to filter all client/project information to develop project specifications and requirements
To Apply

If you are interested in working in a dynamic and innovative environment, we'd like to hear from you. To contact us about these or any other positions, please send a cover letter and your resume to:

CombineNet, Inc.
Attn: Human Resources Manager
Fifteen 27th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

Or send your cover letter and resume via email to jobs@combinenet.com

Please include your cover letter and resume as text within the body of your email. Do not use attachments; if a virus is detected in either the message or any attachment the entire message will be deleted before delivery.

Principals only, no employment agencies.
Applicants please contact us directly.

CombineNet is an equal opportunity employer.

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Optimal: A Definition

(1) A solution to an optimization problem which has the minimum (or maximum) value of the objective function.

(2) The time, space, resource, etc. complexity of an algorithm which matches the best known lower bound of a problem.

— Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

  
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