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At Werner, we’re more than an electrical distributor — we’re a community that empowers people to grow, innovate, and truly make a difference. Our culture celebrates individuality, encourages creativity, and values each person’s voice; creating a space where you can be yourself, connect with others, and build a meaningful career. We believe in balance and flexibility, so you can thrive both professionally and personally. Together, we can make an impact and build something exceptional for our customers, families, communities, and each other.
Summary:
The Senior IT Project Manager / Business Analyst (PM/BA) serves as a bridge between business stakeholders and IT, translating priorities into delivery plans in an integration-centric, vendor-driven environment. This role owns demand intake and maintains the prioritized IT portfolio under the direction of the IT Director, balancing value, urgency, dependencies, and capacity. The PM/BA leads outcome-focused initiatives centered on system integrations, platform enhancements, and low-code or third-party solutions, coordinating internal teams and vendors to ensure end-to-end process and data-flow alignment.
Essential Functions
- Serve as the primary IT relationship partner for assigned business functions, shaping demand into clear, actionable initiatives.
- Own demand intake and maintain a prioritized IT portfolio under the direction of the Director of IT; facilitate transparent tradeoff discussions across value, urgency, risk, dependencies, and capacity.
- Plan and lead delivery of integration-centric initiatives, coordinating timelines, dependencies, and outcomes across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements appropriate for vendor-provided, configuration-based, low-code, and integration solutions.
- Map and document end-to-end business processes across applications, including current-state and future-state workflows, data handoffs, and system interactions.
- Partner with vendors and internal technical teams to define integration expectations, clarify responsibilities, validate assumptions, and coordinate delivery handoffs.
- Apply right-sized project governance (status, decisions, issues/risks, and action tracking) to drive execution without unnecessary ceremony.
- Coordinate end-to-end testing, cutover planning, and post-implementation stabilization for integration and vendor-delivered changes to ensure business continuity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field Or/And 7-10 years in a blended IT PM / BA role
- Strong experience working in environments dominated by third party systems, integrations and configuration based or low code solutions
- Proven ability to reason through integration impacts and system dependencies
- Strong requirements, process analysis, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead vendor-led implementations, including scope alignment, milestone tracking, issue escalation, and holding partners accountable to commitments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting integration‑heavy or digital transformation initiatives
- Exposure to ERP, CRM, EDI, data integration, or middleware platforms
- Experience leading digital automation initiatives, leveraging AI technologies and low-code development
- PMP certification a plus
- Practical experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models
Company Overview
Founded in 1948, Werner has grown from a small appliance store in downtown Neenah, WI into an award-winning employer and leading electrical distributor with 12 branch locations in Wisconsin and Upper-Michigan. Headquartered in Appleton, WI, we provide electrical, lighting, network, process, and inventory management solutions for a diverse group of industrial and construction customers. We are a growing, privately-held company with over 450 employees who uphold a family culture built around exceptional customer service. As a recent New North Workplace Excellence Award winner, we’re dedicated to the continuous improvement of our people, products, and services to ensure the long-term success of our employees and customers. Apply today and find out why we’re a “Great Place to Work.”
Employee Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
- Paid holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
- Pet Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Accident Insurance & Critical Illness Coverage
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Annual bonuses and merit increases based on performance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Wellness Programs
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Career Development & Leadership Training
- Paid Parental Leave
Werner is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
