Our client, a nationwide retailer, is seeking several District Managers to join their team. The ideal candidate will be a focused leader who acts with initiative to execute their resposibilities. They will manage assigned stores within a district. There are multiple locations available
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Ensure district compliance to all company policies, directives and operational standards
• Visit all stores within each district on a planned schedule, providing constructive guidance and to review operational performance
• Monitor store sales and payroll performance of all stores and initiate action plans to achieve company goals
• Review P&L statements monthly with each store manager to ensure all controllable expenses are within company guidelines
• Ensure compliance of company cleanliness standards and general store appearance
• Coordinate action plans with each store manager to execute shrinkage reduction programs in their stores
• Monitor the results of store cycle inventories and store audits to ensure corrections of any deficiencies
• Ensure all loss prevention communications are followed to maintain awareness of shoplifting issues and internal theft
• Maintain compliance to all safety rules and regulations
• Ensure timely execution of company procedures for new hires, promotions and all other status changes through routine communication with each store manager
• Monitor all training programs of new store managers
• Approve all required status changes and ensure consistent salary administration within the district
• Ensure strict compliance to all Federal, State and Local laws and accurate record keeping of store personnel files
• Communication with buying staff on any merchandise needs, new items and stock levels
• Ensure timely execution of all merchandise presentation guidelines
• Monitor the prompt and accurate completion of markdowns, price changes and store promotions
• Communicate new store location possibilities and availability of new sire locations for existing stores
• Report any significant changes within the district concerning vacancies, competition or any other real estate issues
REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or related field, 5 years Multi Unit experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to travel extensively by car and plane
• Ability to lift 40 lbs
• Hanging apparel experience a must
• Must currently be District Managers or have worked as a DM within the last year
• Multi unit store experience in apparel
Locations: Montgomery, AL;
Indianapolis, IN;
Columbus, OH;
Cincinatti, OH;
New Orleans, LA;
Columbia, SC
Salary: $60,000 – $90,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client is a leading global provider of high quality data, expert insight, and productivity solutions to Investment Banking and Corporate clients. Our client is going mobile and they are looking for someone to work with the team to make this happen! This is a break out opportunity for someone to drive an innovative project at an established leader in the financial markets. The Mobile Solutions Team, with the support of Senior Management, is charged with the evolution of how clients access and leverage the valuable data, intelligence and workflow solutions in Capital Market and Investor Relations.
This person will be responsible for leading and managing the delivery of solutions to clients via mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. This team will provide valuable insight into the mobile solutions strategy supporting clients across multiple products and business verticals. This includes working with business leaders to gather and prioritize market and client requirements, create detailed Functional Specifications, collaborate with development resources, provide quality assurance and guide clients through User Acceptance Testing and roll-out. The selected candidate, and his or her team, will ensure that large web-based applications and advisory services translate appropriately into the mobile world.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities of the Mobile Applications Business Analyst:
Sharing mobile subject matter experience during strategy discussions
Work with business groups ot design appplications into mobile products
Gathering Business Requirements & Supporting the production of Functional Specifications
Support of the Product Lifecycle including: requirements gathering, specification documentation, quality assurance, training, client rollout and support.
The candidate must have the following:
4+ years of experience in a Software Product Mangement role
Proven ability to determine the design of a mobile application that is in line with business needs
4+ years of begin a liaison between business leaders and technology teams
Expertise in mobile application product management in multiple projects and/or products
Experience in working in a native app or HTML5 environment
Must have the ability to learn our client’s business and translate these needs into new products, and perform high-level troubleshooting.
Full product development life cycle knowledge and experience. Should include but not be limited to successful product execution.
Experience with writing business requirements, functional specifications, and quality assurance testing.
Demonstrated experience in building relationships and collaborate across multiple teams including senior level employees and clients.
Proficiency in Illustrator, a plus
Location: New York, NY
Salary: $100,000 – $110,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
The Senior AIX Engineer will be providing 24×7 technical support for a large enterprise Unix/AIX server environment. This hands-on Senior Unix engineer is expected to be heavily involved in planning, designing and implementation of multiple internal infrastructure projects as well as provide day-to-day assistance for system administration, operational support and problem resolution to the Unix Engineering and Support Team.
Responsibilities include:
-Provide 24×7 supports for the enterprise-wide UNIX environment including daily AIX administration, problem determination and resolution, and support of a highly virtualized environment.
-Perform AIX and 3rd party software upgrades including planning, design and implementation.
-Assist with performance troubleshooting and analysis
-Drive usage and adoption of advanced virtualization technologies provided by Power and AIX Enterprise Edition including active memory virtualization, live partition mobility and WPARs
-Provide both operational support and engineering direction on series hardware design including VIOS, network, storage and workload balancing
-Establish standards and best practices to be used by the rest of the AIX team
-Identify opportunities and implement process improvements based on automation or elimination of unnecessary administration
-Provide technical design along with hardware and labor estimates to support projects
-Provide installation and ongoing support of IBM Tivoli products
-Develop and implement scripts to streamline ongoing management of the AIX environment
-Work closely with the service delivery and automation team to integrate AIX processes into automated workflows
-Remain current on the latest technology as new versions of Power hardware and AIX software are released
-Participate in on-call rotation.
The qualified candidate will have a B.S. Information Systems or related field OR related demonstrated experience and the following skills and experience:
-Minimum 5 to 7 years in a AIX engineer role within a large organization.
-Hands-on experience in the design and implementation of pSeries technologies
-Experience in a fast-paced, high pressure environment with multiple active projects
-Working and interact effectively with multiple areas across infrastructure and application organizations to deliver projects
-Flexible, positive and team oriented attitude
-Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work effectively with technical and business partners
-Strong written, verbal and presentation abilities
-Able to handle dynamic and high pressure environment with focus on success and productivity
-Demonstrate excellent analytical abilities and critical thinking
-Capable of handling multiple project assignments independently
-Champion process, documentation and operational improvements and best practices
-Extensive experience with AIX 5, 6 and 7 Operating System installation, configuration and upgrades
-Extensive knowledge of Power 5, Power 6 and Power 7 hardware
-Advanced knowledge of PowerVM virtualization
-Expert knowledge of HMC and Network install manager (NIM)
-Excellent understanding of SAN and storage virtualization technologies
-Advanced scripting ability ‘ KSH, CSH, Perl
-In depth understanding of high availability products, PowerHA, HACMP
-Knowledge of networking fundamentals
-Experience with Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is strongly desirable but not required
-Experience with IBM System Director (6.3) is strongly desirable
-Exposure with IBM Websphere would be a big plus
-Exposure to SAP, Sybase and DB2 would be a plus
-Being able to respond to emergency situations as they arise outside of normal working hours
Candidate Must Have :
Minimum 5 to 7 years in a AIX engineer role within a large organization.
Hands-on experience in the design and implementation of pSeries technologies
Extensive experience with AIX 5, 6 and 7 Operating System installation, configuration and upgrades
Advanced knowledge of PowerVM virtualization
Expert knowledge of HMC and Network install manager (NIM)
Location: Cleveland, OH
Salary: $80,000 – $95,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
Our client’s Business Consulting Group is the global in-house consulting arm for our client , providing high-end management consulting services exclusively to senior decision-makers across all Subgroups worldwide. Effectively operating as the global, cross-divisional management and leadership development program. The Business Consulting Group strives to foster a positive, enriching, and productive work environment and provides multiple forms of training and professional development. Team development is supported by periodic offsite meetings (regional, global) which are deliberately designed to offer learning as well as networking opportunities.
Business Consultants are usually deployed at one project at a time, stretching several weeks to several months. Project team size varies but is generally comparable with team size at the leading traditional consulting firms. Willingness and preparedness to travel is expected and global project opportunities exist.
As a Project Manager you will be responsible for ownership of project scope, team management, deliverables, and client relationships; Leadership in developing effective analytical and scientific assessments and programs for clients; Workshop design, preparation, and facilitation; leadership of other strategy and operations management efforts.
You will also be eligible to attend training in our client’s consulting methods and tools as part of their comprehensive professional development program; and you will play an integral role in shaping the growing Business Consulting practice.
What they are looking for – Project Manager
Specifically for their New Jersey location, they are mostly interested in candidates with the following industry and functional profiles:
1. Healthcare strategy – Managed Markets/ Commercial Model (e.g., Payor strategies, Market analytics and segmentation, Marketing strategy, Sales force effectiveness). Must have solid U.S. payor landscape knowledge.
2. Healthcare strategy – Consumer Care (e.g., Product marketing, Market analytics and segmentation, and Channel strategies, Retail/ Trade relations).
3. Healthcare strategy – Women’s Healthcare (e.g., women’s healthcare product marketing, sales, product launch, commercial operations, growth strategy, retail/ trade relations).
4. Change Management – Transformation (e.g., Communication, Training planning, Executive coaching, Transformation planning and facilitation). Must have professional healthcare experience.
5. Agriculture/ Crop science/ Nutrition – Marketing & Sales (e.g., Market segmentation, Pricing, Distribution, Customer analytics, Operations management).
Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree, earned during the past seven years, in Business (MBA strongly preferred), Economics, Life Sciences, Engineering, or related field from a top-listed universities or faculty;
• At least four to eight years of professional business experience (experience in a leading traditional consulting practice strongly preferred) with demonstrated career progression;
• Expert market and industry knowledge relevant to our client’s North America operations;
• Demonstrated record of working independently and achieving measurable results;
• Strong understanding of general business processes (accounting, finance, marketing, manufacturing, supply chain etc.);
• Leadership and influencing skills and experience; ability to deal with senior client management in often complex situations;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Proven project management skills;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Outstanding analytical, conceptual and implementation skills; initiative, persuasiveness and a strong team spirit;
• Proven experience in a highly client-driven environment, coupled with an entrepreneurial attitude to deliver effective, value-add solutions ;
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as required;
• Driver’s license valid for travel in the U.S.
Additional, preferred, qualifications are as follows
• Doctorate Degree/ Ph.D. in Business, Economics, Life or Physical Sciences, Engineering, or related field;
• Experience within the Our client Group;
• International/ global work experience;
• Experience in a leading traditional consulting practice strongly preferred;
• Promotion to Project Manager (or equivalent) in traditional top consulting practice.
Travel Required :
Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as required up to 65%;
Location: Wayne, NJ
Salary: $100,000 – $140,000
Contact: Kendal Ridgeway
