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Project and Purchasing Manager
Located in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
As the premiere luxury brand jewelry and watch retailer throughout the Caribbean, Little Switzerland is searching for a Project and Purchasing Manager, who identifies with this long standing history of excellence and who will enjoy working at our location on St. Thomas.
The Project and Purchasing Manager provides for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring timely planning and execution according to schedule. Works closely across all departments on construction based projects. Also manages all aspects of supply order function including negotiation with suppliers, non-merchandise purchasing, and warehousing as well as facilities maintenance.
The successful candidate will be well verse in construction project management. Having a deep understanding of the methods and activities of construction project management, the candidate will understand the resources needed, tools, material, etc. and be able to execute from planning, ordering/purchasing/shipping to completion of project/s and impact and exposure to other departments and organization.
Duties and Responsibilities
Defines and leads project creation, implementation and completion, including but not limited to budget, timelines, and resources needed.
Acting as liaison between various stakeholders, departments, outside agencies, and vendors; providing status reports and ensuring flow of communication between groups.
Ensuring project work complies with practices, policies and standard operating procedures.
Shipment coordination and tracking.
Manages shipment and facilities maintenance repair budgets and costs.
Coordinates the repair of all company maintenance needs
Follow up with vendors and managers of completion of maintenance jobs.
Education and Skills Required:
Excellent meeting management skills. Must be comfortable conducting construction project meetings, and setting/managing stakeholder expectations by solving complex issues and changes when appropriate
Strong Project Planning Skills including the ability to translate project requirements into project objectives and tasks, managing task assignments to project resources and reporting on and managing project scope throughout the lifecycle
Must have solid Process Development Skills and experience driving process improvement initiatives to enable improved collaboration.
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must be deadline sensitive and proactive in finding solutions to problems
College degree preferred in Business Management, Project Management, or Logistics
Prefer 2-3 years' experience in a retail environment preferably working in a construction project management environment.
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