Project Manager

The Project Manager will oversee programs containing multiple projects as well as stand-alone projects.  They will act as the single point of contact across functional groups within the AG Digital division.  This individual is responsible for effectively driving the project team to achieve the deliverables agreed upon and managing day to day project delivery expectations to stakeholders, the project team and the PMO group. Accompany with initiation, defining, execution, monitoring and closing of the project.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Work with AG Digital business owners to create project requests and document the business requirements;
• Work with tech team to provide high level LOE to AG Digital Management (as needed and when requested);
• Work with dedicated engineer and management to determine detailed requirements;
• Manage the scope, time and budget of the projects;
• Project planning: create the projects plan, work with SME (team lead) to create the tasks, create dependencies, give estimates (LOE), identify critical path and create the project timeline;
• Work with resource manager to allocate resources on the tasks;
• Implement change management procedures and make sure the project timeline is met;
• Communicate to stakeholders the project status at regularly meetings;
• Keep up to date the existing project calendar;
• Manage together with the stakeholders the prioritization queue;
• Act as primary liaison between stakeholders and technical resources;
• Is directly responsible for all the deliverables of the project as well as of its implementation.

Coordinate International Site Updates:

• Coordinate change requests projects from AG Digital for US and International sites;
• Look for opportunities to help AG Digital manage updates to the international sites;
• Review differences between US and International sites. Work with AG Management to provide a list of updates that should be made to the international sites to align features and functionality where appropriate.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or Computer Science or equivalent experience;
• Completed course work or experience in project management methodologies.

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• 1-2 years with web applications or infrastructure technology;
• Minimum 2 years of project management experience.

Tools & technologies

• Project Management tools: Clarity, Microsoft Project etc.

Learning opportunities:

• Microsoft Suite, Exchange online, Azure, Sharepoint online, Windows Server, Active Directory.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Self-managing;
• Results oriented, strong problem solving;
• Clear and critical thinking, logic speaking, synthetic;
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Demonstrated skilled in producing business requirements specifications and documentation;
• Demonstrated skill in producing visual modeling (work-flow diagrams, business process flows);
• Familiar with or demonstrated skill with issue tracking or requirements management software;
• Familiar with or demonstrated skill with relational database and client server concepts.

About American Greetings

American Greetings is a creator and manufacturer of innovative social expression products that assist consumers in enhancing their relationships to create Happiness, Laughter and Love.

American Greetings’ major greeting card lines are American Greetings, Carlton Cards, Gibson, Recycled Paper Greetings and Papyrus. We also own large web collections of greetings on the Web ,

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, American Greetings has offices worldwide in Canada, UK - Europe, Australia, Asia and generates annual revenue of approximately $ billion.

The Bucharest Office is one of AG’s IT Centers that offers support for the Corporation Teams in the SAP, Data warehouse, System Engineering, QA Automation Engineering, Web & Mobile Development.

We are a young, ambitious and dynamic team, growing together with the company through high trainings offered by our specialists in a variety of technologies across all platforms:

• DWH: Oracle, SQL, Informatica, Teradata, ETL, Unix/Shell Scripting, QlikView, Cloudera – Data Warehouse;
• Web & Apps Development: Python, Java, C#,  JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Endeca, SAP, Node JS, Android, iOS, Angular, Web dynpro, ABAP, SSIS, Batch scripts – Web & Mobile;
• Infrastructure: Linux, Microsoft Windows - Active Directory, Exchange, VM-Ware – System Admin;
• Software testing: Java, Groovy, Selenium, Apium, Geb  - QA Automation and much more.
• SAP: Web-Dynpro ABAP, as IDOC, PI, Web-service, Proxy, OData, EDI/ALE/IDOCs, RFC, BAPI's.

Join US, and you’ll discover a place where work becomes fun! We are in Cotroceni Business Center – close to Politechnica University and AFI.

To know us better, you can visit our website americangreetings(dot)com and our Facebook profile: AmericanGreetingsRO