PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.

At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

The Project Management Assistant has a key role in the EMEA DTC Project Team, working with the Digital Project Managers to deliver DTC tech change projects, managing day to day administration tasks and supporting in all elements of the project lifecycle. The successful candidate will be working with the Global Product and Platform team to communicate, facilitate and monitor the delivery of high-quality consumer experiences for the EMEA & LATAM region. These projects help the business to drive conversion, encourage retention, raise brand perception, and ultimately support business growth and positioning objectives.

This role requires some eCommerce platform understanding, strong administrative skills, clear stakeholder engagement and organization, and excellent cross-functional communication and partnership.

The role will report to Sr. Project Manager Digital Commerce for EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Project Managers on the delivery of projects through the lifecycle from start to finish.

• Capturing and circulating notes, actions and next steps during requirements, implementation, testing and delivery stages.

• Diary management to schedule follow up session with Stakeholders and project team within a timely manner.

• Creating and upkeeping the Weekly Status Reports to ensure clear regular updates go out the project team and Key Stakeholders throughout all elements of a project.
• Helping the project team collate key information and elements during requirements i.e. Site walking through the site to identify key parts of a Customer Journey and areas of improvement/ to be updated as part of the project.

• Following up with project team on completion of actions and any support needed to complete them.
• Presenting on behalf of Project Managers when required.
• Supporting, when extra resource is required, on UAT cycles and Post Go Live checks.
• Ad hoc administrative tasks to support project team and delivery.