Responsibilities

• Manage small to mid-sized retail merchandising projects that sit within a broader program umbrella. Projects focus on developing, iterating, and distributing retail store planograms at large scale volumes, with a strong focus on product-driven updates. The team is responsible for developing detailed schematics that determine where and how products should be displayed on tables, shelves and fixtures.
• Drive end-to-end project execution from intake through final delivery, ensuring timelines, dependencies, approvals, and milestones are proactively managed across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary.
• Expert in cross-functional stakeholder management
• Serve as a key point of contact for internal and client stakeholders, facilitating status meetings, documenting action items, and ensuring alignment on priorities, risks, and delivery expectations.
• Provide ongoing monitoring of progress such as project status, issue resolution, task and allocation management, and timeline tracking; consult with team and adjust as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, intake processes, resourcing visibility, and operational efficiencies to support a high-volume production environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail is crucial to ensure all aspects of the planograms are accurately implemented and maintained. This includes managing inventory, understanding product placement, and ensuring compliance with established planograms.
• Previous exposure to managing teams and projects in the retail planning & merchandising space. You should have a baseline familiarity with:
• How a production team uses modeling and rendering software to develop retail floor/space diagrams, table/fixture layouts, and product icons.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of project management experience in an agency environment managing a high volume of projects aligned to product lifecycles.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly in conjunction with workflow steps and internal processes, and the ability to work with and manage distributed global teams.
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, trackers, and operational reporting to monitor project health and team progress.
• Ideally, some familiarity with retail merchandising projects focused on planogram development.
• Experience in the consumer electronics industry is a plus.

Benefits

• The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)