Company Overview
POOLCORP is the leading business-to-business distributor of swimming pool and landscape supplies, equipment, and related outdoor living products. Through our subsidiaries, SCP Distributors LLC, Superior Pool Products LLC, and Horizon Distributors Inc., we operate in more than 440 wholesale Sales Centers worldwide with nearly 6,000 employees serving the needs of customers by offering a wide array of products and value-added support.
Our Covington, LA headquarters provides exceptional support (i.e., IT, HR, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Purchasing, Sourcing, etc.) to each of our Sales Centers. Our extraordinary company culture encompasses a high work ethic, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a community presence all within a family-oriented work atmosphere. At POOLCORP, we strive to employ only the very best.
Why POOLCORP?
Because it’s a place where you can make an impact and grow! At POOLCORP you’ll find a wealth of opportunities that support your individual and long-term career goals. Our stable work environment is further enhanced by our generous compensation and benefits package. Publicly traded since 1995, POOLCORP is a global organization with a long history of continuous success - clearly making it an industry leader – in so many ways!
So, end your job search here – at POOLCORP – Where Outdoor Living Comes to Life!
Summary:
Responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing all tasks that relate to a specific project. Confers with project managers, team managers, and SMEs to understand the scope of a project. Meets with the project team, ensuring that each team member understands their responsibilities and accountabilities. The assistant project manager relays information between the project {owner} and {other parties}. Any paperwork required is their responsibility.
The IT Assistant Project Manager will focus on Support Department projects and liaise with the PMO, IT, and all other departments as part of the complete project portfolio. Common responsibilities for this role include flexibility to work with and understand multiple department roles and procedures, task identification and management, testing and training development, implementation planning and execution, project and resource management working with other Project Managers, user communications, documentation of project meeting tasks, action items, and timelines, creation of technical documentation for user support, and executive summary updates.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitates the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
- Defines project tasks and resource requirements
- Assembles and coordinates project staff
- Plans and schedules project timelines
- Tracks project deliverables using appropriate tools
- Provides direction and support to project team
- Constantly monitors and reports on progress of the project to all stakeholders
- Presents reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
- Implements and manages project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Projects evaluations and assessment of results
- Documents project meeting information including tasks, action items, and timelines
- Creates user documentation and assists with user training where required
- Any other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with minimum 2 years of project management experience and/or equivalent
- Demonstrated project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management
- Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management
- Strong leadership skills while still exhibiting strong team player qualities
- Proven experience in people and time management
- Proven experience in risk management and change management
- Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills
- Outstanding planning, organization, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities
- Outstanding management and leadership qualities
- Proven ability to effectively coordinate cross-functional teams
- Creative and business focused clear thinker with good problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently, multi-task, and be a strong, proactive team player
- Excellent customer service skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to quickly respond to management and end user requests
- Ability to understand corporate culture and style guidelines to ensure appropriate web design and architecture
Bilingual, Military, Military Spouses and Veteran applicants are strongly encouraged to apply! Currently, POOLCORP has over one hundred and twenty military personnel serving on our team. We understand the uniqueness of hiring military personnel and veterans and will support him/her in the time of duty or with the transition into new civilian professions.
All offers to external candidates for employment are contingent upon the successful completion of pre-employment drug testing and background verifications before employment is finalized.
POOLCORP, including all its subsidiaries, is a drug-free company and Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. The Company understands, respects, and values diversity – unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while striving to be inclusive of all people. This commitment is critical to our success as a global company as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Hiring and promotional decisions are based solely on the qualifications required for the job to be filled.
What We Do
With more than 6,000 employees and over 420 locations worldwide, POOLCORP leads the pack as the world's largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products.
With Sales Centers located across North America (US, Canada, and Mexico), Europe (France, UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Croatia), and Australia, we distribute a broad range of products to roughly 125,000 customers around the world, serving four principal markets:
- Remodelers and builders installing new swimming pools and refurbishing existing pools
- Independent specialty retail stores selling outdoor living products to consumers
- Service companies performing pool and hot tub maintenance and repair
- Contractors serving in the irrigation and landscape maintenance markets
POOLCORP’s Sales Center networks distribute non-discretionary pool maintenance products such as chemicals and replacement parts and discretionary products such as packaged pool kits, whole goods, irrigation, and landscape products. The product mix also includes a complete line of commercial and residential irrigation products and parts, power equipment for the professional landscape market, specialty products such as outdoor lighting, grills, and outdoor kitchen components, golf irrigation, and water management products.
We recognize our responsibility to contribute to the sustainability of our environment. POOLCORP is taking strides towards reducing our carbon footprint, providing product choices that allow our customers to reduce their environmental impact, and implementing health and wellness programs company-wide to improve the lives of our employees.
POOLCORP focuses on exceptional value and promoting growth for our customers' businesses, expanding opportunities for our employees, and increasing returns for our shareholders. We strive to locate products at the lowest possible cost while maximizing supply logistics to deliver the best value to our customers
