Project Manager, Product Harmonization - Contract Role

FleetPride is the largest after-market distributor of heavy-duty truck and trailer parts in the U.S. with some of the best and brightest people in the business! Partner with the best in the heavy-duty industry and apply today!

The Project Manager, Product Harmonization will support the Director of Product Harmonization in the strategic alignment, rationalization, and integration of the combined FleetPride and TruckPro product portfolios. This role is responsible for managing day-to-day execution across product harmonization workstreams, including SKU rationalization, supplier alignment, category standardization, product transition planning, and product data governance. The Project Manager will build, maintain, and manage Smartsheet-based project plans; coordinate cross-functional activities; drive accountability across stakeholders; facilitate regular status meetings; and proactively identify risks, blockers, and red flags before they escalate. This role requires strong project discipline, clear communication, and the ability to work across Category Management, Supply Chain, Pricing, IT, Operations, Sales, and other functional teams to keep product harmonization initiatives moving forward.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, project management, data management, or a related field preferred
• Project Management Professional certification preferred; CAPM or equivalent project management training considered
• 2 to 3 years of project planning, project coordination, or project management experience
• Experience managing cross-functional projects, timelines, task owners, dependencies, and deliverables
• Proficiency with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar project management tools
• Experience working with product data, databases, item files, or structured data sets preferred
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, and deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and navigate across functions and levels of the organization
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare status updates, meeting notes, action logs, and executive-ready summaries
• Strong accountability mindset with the ability to hold teams to deadlines, escalate risks early, and drive issues to resolution

Primary Duties

• Support the Director of Product Harmonization in planning, coordinating, and executing product harmonization initiatives across the combined FleetPride and TruckPro product portfolios
• Manage and maintain product harmonization workplans, playbooks, and templates; develop additional documentation as needed to support SKU rationalization, category standardization, supplier alignment, and product transition activities
• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, and resource requirements in partnership with the Director of Product Harmonization and functional stakeholders
• Develop detailed project plans that identify key activities, dependencies, task owners, milestones, timelines, and required resources
• Build, maintain, and manage project plans in Smartsheet, ensuring tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies, and status updates are accurate, current, and visible to stakeholders
• Coordinate with Category Management, Supply Chain, Pricing, IT, Operations, Sales, and other functional teams to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and keep teams accountable to workstream commitments
• Support SKU rationalization, supplier alignment, and product data governance activities by coordinating data requests, cross-functional inputs, stakeholder reviews, meeting preparation, decision documentation, issue tracking, clean-up activities, action items, and execution follow-up.
• Work with the Director of Product Harmonization and stakeholders to identify the people, tools, data, and process inputs required to execute each workstream effectively
• Plan, schedule, and facilitate regular project status meetings; prepare agendas, capture decisions and action items, assign owners, and distribute meeting notes in a timely manner
• Maintain a consistent communication cadence with the Director of Product Harmonization and relevant stakeholders regarding progress, risks, open issues, upcoming milestones, and required decisions
• Prepare project status reports, progress summaries, action logs, risk registers, and executive-ready updates for review by the Director of Product Harmonization
• Monitor project progress against established timelines, milestones, and deliverables; recommend adjustments as needed to reflect scope changes, resource constraints, or emerging business priorities
• Proactively identify risks, blockers, delays, and missed commitments; raise red flags to leadership in a timely manner and recommend corrective actions before issues escalate
• Develop and maintain project documentation, forms, records, file structures, and project repositories to ensure information is organized, accessible, documented, and secure
• Support the Director in defining workstream success criteria, KPIs, completion milestones, and reporting methods aligned to the broader product harmonization strategy
• Help ensure project deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and at the required level of quality
• Evaluate project outcomes against the goals, scope, and success criteria established during the planning phase

Attributes

• Oral Communication: Ability to clearly communicate information, ideas, project status, risks, and next steps in a way stakeholders can understand and act on
• Written Communication: Ability to prepare clear documentation, status updates, meeting notes, action plans, and executive summaries
• Listening and Comprehension: Ability to understand information, instructions, risks, and stakeholder concerns presented through meetings, discussions, and written communication
• Problem Sensitivity: Ability to recognize when an issue is likely to occur or requires escalation before it becomes a larger concern.
• Deductive Reasoning: Ability to apply general project management principles, business rules, and process guidelines to specific problems and determine practical solutions
• Accountability: Ability to follow through on commitments, hold others accountable, and drive workstreams toward completion
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across departments, influence without direct authority, and build productive working relationships

Physical Demands

• This is primarily a sedentary office or hybrid role. Physical demands are limited to those typical of a professional office environment, including extended periods of computer use, participation in meetings, use of standard office equipment, and occasional travel to branch, distribution center, supplier, or corporate locations as needed.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor

FleetPride is the leader in the industry comprised of retail, service, distribution and wholesale divisions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.