Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Love, Bonito, a leading Southeast Asian womenswear brand, as a Retail Project Manager to lead the global development of our retail store network. You will manage multiple store openings, optimize operational efficiency, and ensure alignment with cost, duration, and quality targets. This role requires strategic leadership, strong communication, and a passion for retail innovation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage project budgets, and develop comprehensive project trackers. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in retail project management and construction, superior communication skills, and a proven ability to deliver complex projects. Love, Bonito offers flexible work arrangements, comprehensive corporate insurance, staff discounts, and various other employee benefits.

Requirements

• Display extreme ownership, has the drive and adaptability to work in a fast-paced, ever changing, high-growth organization
• Great project manager, multi-tasker; ability to handle tight deadlines while not allowing important details to slip through the cracks or derail a project
• End-to-end mindset of identifying, educating, and implementing continuous improvement across departments
• Excellent business acumen, customer-centric, team and results-oriented. Aptitude for thinking beyond boundaries and synthesizing different information; translating them into an action plan
• Excellent communication skills, communicates clearly and concisely and the ability to create and maintain strong, authentic relationships across the organization and with external stakeholders to influence and motivate stakeholders towards a common goal
• Resourceful and understand the types of levers to pull to drive collaboration across all levels of the organization. You have a bias to action and take initiative
• Innately curious, with a pulse on the ever-changing consumer retail industry, and an ability to constantly improve and innovate existing store development processes
• Handled and delivered complex projects, with demonstrated leadership and influence in the organisation
• Lives and breathes our brand values: People Matter; Go Above & Beyond; Be Bold, Be Creative; Always Keep It Real; We’re Better Together!
• At least 10-15 years of experience and knowledge in Retail Project Management/Store Development and Construction in the Philippines
• Superior communication and storyboarding skills via Google Slides/ Powerpoint
• Willingness to travel to new/ existing markets with Love, Bonito’s presence

Responsibilities

• Lead and project manage the end-to-end development of Love, Bonito’s global retail store network, across various store types and formats
• Strategize and manage multiple store openings, from initial planning to successful completion, ensuring alignment with agreed cost, duration, and quality targets
• Drive operational efficiency in store development processes by working closely with key stakeholders across functions, improving workflows and execution outcomes
• Retrieve, understand, and translate in-market requirements, identifying and aligning the correct internal and external stakeholders to deliver the ideal store
• Develop clear project scope and plans, including milestones, objectives, KPIs, deliverables, resourcing needs, and detailed project timelines based on each market’s needs
• Plan and lead project kick-offs, as well as manage site takeovers and handovers between relevant internal teams (e.g., retail, design, facilities, and construction)
• Manage working team outcomes by managing expectations, ensuring accountability, and facilitating successful collaboration across departments
• Ensure transparency and alignment across all project stages by actively managing risks and issues, documenting developments, and facilitating resolution or mitigation
• Formulate and maintain project budgets, ensuring alignment with Finance and effective resource allocation across involved teams
• Develop and manage comprehensive project trackers and dashboards to be shared internally and externally for regular progress updates
• Develop strong communication plans, and create structured, engaging presentations and materials that help decision-makers understand complex subjects and make informed calls
• Lead cross-functional task forces and continuously improve store development processes to achieve cost and time savings, leveraging industry best practices and insights
• Conduct regular site visits alongside the Retail Design & Facilities team to ensure construction and execution align with expectations and standards

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree from top university in Engineering, Industrial Design or Supply Chain preferred
• Ability to read basic design drawings, technical blueprints and shop drawings and previous experience in managerial role would be a plus
• Six Sigma, Lean, or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is a bonus

Benefits

• Work from anywhere*!
• Hybrid work and adjustable hours - as long as present during our core working hours
• Comprehensive corporate insurance (Fully covered visits at our panel clinics, Dental coverage, Maternity reimbursement for both our employees and their wives, Mental wellness support)
• Generous staff discount off LB products
• Corporate partnerships with a variety of companies
• Employee driven peer-to-peer recognition platform to honour and celebrate everyday achievements
• Internal Referral programme