Remote Position
[Remote] Distributor Onboarding Project Manager
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce’s client is seeking a Distributor Onboarding Project Manager to lead onboarding for distributors selected through the RFI process. The role coordinates cross-functional execution, tracks readiness and risks, resolves barriers, and reports progress to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Project Planning & Execution: Develop and manage onboarding plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and readiness criteria through completion
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Sales, Channel Operations, IT, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, and other teams to align and execute onboarding requirements
- Progress & Accountability: Track workstream progress, manage outstanding actions, drive stakeholder accountability, and address delays
- Issue Resolution & Escalation: Identify barriers, assess impacts, facilitate problem-solving, and escalate issues that threaten onboarding timelines or readiness
- Risk & Dependency Management: Identify cross-functional risks and dependencies, develop mitigation plans, and drive resolution
- Executive Reporting: Provide concise leadership updates on progress, milestones, risks, escalations, decisions required, and recovery plans
- Readiness & Transition: Lead readiness reviews, validate completion of onboarding requirements, and support transition to steady-state operations
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve onboarding governance, processes, reporting, and execution practices
Skills
- Experience in project or program management, within distribution, channel operations, or business transformation
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to evaluate issues, develop practical solutions, and drive decisions
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders, drive accountability, and deliver results without direct authority over execution teams
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including experience reporting project status, risks, and escalations to senior leadership
- Strong organizational, analytical, follow-up, and risk management skills
- Proficiency in project management and reporting tools, such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, or equivalent platforms
- Experience with distributor or channel partner onboarding
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability, and ADD insurance for eligible employees.
- Paid time off for salaried personnel.
- Paid sick leave for hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project.
Company Overview
Company H1B Sponsorship