Retail Project Manager
Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: 12 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH Fridays)
Pay: $46-51.41/hr, DOE
The Planet Group is looking for a Retail Project Manager to join our well-known retail brand on a 12-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR, working remotely on Fridays.
Retail Project Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Retail Management, Project Management, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in project management, program management, retail operations, or a related field
- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects in a retail, consumer products, or apparel environment
- Demonstrated expertise developing and managing detailed workback schedules across multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority and navigate ambiguity with confidence
- Exceptional organization and the ability to influence across multiple functions without direct authority
- Thrive in fast-paced environments
- Enjoy bringing structure to ambiguity
- Experience partnering across merchandising, retail, marketing, visual merchandising, planning, operations, and product teams
- Experience supporting global or multi-market retail organizations is preferred
- Familiarity with retail calendars, seasonal product launches, and store execution processes is preferred
- Bonus points if you have experience using project management tools such as Asana, Smartsheet, Monday.com, Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar platforms
- Strong analytical mindset with experience creating executive dashboards and reporting
Retail Project Manager Description:
- Drive cross-functional execution across strategic retail initiatives
- Ensure that complex projects move from strategy to implementation by building integrated workback schedules, aligning stakeholders, identifying risks, and keeping teams accountable to key milestones
- Lead end-to-end project management for retail initiatives from planning through execution
- Coordinate work across cross-functional teams including Retail, Merchandising, Marketing, Planning, Brand, Design, Operations, and Finance
- Facilitate recurring project meetings, document decisions, and drive follow-up actions
- Ensure alignment across stakeholders while maintaining momentum against key deliverables
- Develop and maintain detailed integrated workback schedules for multiple concurrent projects
- Define milestones, dependencies, decision gates, and critical paths
- Monitor progress against timelines and proactively address risks that may impact delivery
- Continuously update project plans as priorities evolve while maintaining visibility across leadership teams
- Drive operational rigor through clear project governance and consistent communication
- Track action items, owners, deadlines, and project health
- Escalate issues with proposed solutions and mitigation plans
- Support successful implementation of retail concepts, launches, seasonal initiatives, and strategic programs
- Prepare executive-ready project updates, dashboards, and status reports
- Communicate project timelines, risks, and dependencies to leadership and partner teams
- Foster collaboration across global and geography teams to ensure alignment and accountability
