Project Coordinator, Wholesale Fuels

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

JOB SUMMARY: This position is part of the Wholesale Operations team and is responsible for providing project management for key initiatives in support of SEI Fuel Services’ 1,500+ dealers. The project coordinator is responsible for executing projects to ensure cross functional alignment, drive and manage the teams to meet strict deadlines and achieve financial goals. Responsibilities include financial and project governance, project execution excellence and reducing risks for SEI leveraging project management principles and tools.

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage projects to focus on driving results, finding cost savings opportunities and efficiencies in the project life cycle while leveraging project best practices.
• Ensure project documentation is in place and remains current according to project management principles.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to align on scope, resources, define and acquire budget, and build schedule in support of strong execution.
• Manage teams to ensure the project team works together efficiently and effectively.
• Understand the details of the project to effectively manage the dependencies, and mitigate risks and issues
• Through regular cadence of reporting, ensure visibility and transparency on project progress milestones, financial governance, issues and risksIn addition to the skills above, the Project Coordinator needs to be proficient and demonstrate the following leadership competencies:
• Ability to effectively build relationships to influence stakeholders and teams through indirect leadership, working across organizational lines and varying levels of the organization.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate key project points and adjust communications as needed based on audience, making the complex simple to understand. Manage collaboration and communication with other teams, both internal and external, to ensure teams have what they need and can work efficiently.
• Achieve detailed understanding of functional area of the project and related processes to be able to challenge assumptions and thinking and provide thought leadership.
• Ability to solve problems by assessing the situation, leveraging data where applicable, identifying root cause, and developing potential solutions.
• Ability to operate in environments with ambiguity; create clarity for the team to move forward.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Education: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree, preferred
• Experience: Experience managing projects and/or leading teams
• Strong analytical skills and process improvement viewpoint.
• Strong Word/Excel/Powerpoint skills mandatory.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills required.
• Effectively interact & influence internal & external stakeholders at all levels.
• Preferred: Familiarity with project governance and PMP ideologies

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