Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Timeline
ProjectManager

Angela Evans

Summary

Project manager with 15+ years of experience owning all stages of the lifecycle to deliver projects that exceed expectations on time and on budget. Seeking greater responsibility, where my experience will drive client-facing projects. Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

PROJECT MANAGER

American Express Global Business, Cyber Security
05.2022 - Current
  • Accountable for the execution and delivery of customer-focused security solution projects ensuring uninterrupted progress or delays
  • Drive project progress across multiple stakeholders and levels of oversight with assurance on maintaining progress, milestones, and effective resource utilization
  • Key Accomplishments
  • Set and met 93% of goal deadlines, allocated budget, and worked across software, application, and executive teams to ensure teams were properly resourced
  • Interacted with 75+ high value clients and fostered relationships through a deep knowledge of the vendor product and client needs
  • Managed communication across departments to schedule and plan bi-weekly company all-hands meetings to ensure the team was bought into projects and the overall company mission
  • Delivered a $2M B2B software product for enterprises to get real time credit monitoring alerts
  • Trained users of multiple new Security platforms on how to use the tools via training sessions with SMEs and uploaded/ published the recorded trainings on Security’s intranet page
  • Build relationships with Technology teams and stakeholders within and beyond Security through managing projects that impacted multiple teams.

PROJECT MANAGER

Symrise
Teterboro, NJ
09.2015 - 05.2022
  • Project Management: Lead and drive the entire lifecycle of creative development briefs from project conception through to launch
  • Create & facilitate project plans, including defining opportunity, scope, objectives, deliverables, strategies, timeline, budget, resources required, and risk management
  • Develop in-depth relationships at all levels with customers & implement strategic plans to secure and grow categories
  • Develop successful working relationship with (new and existing) clients
  • Anticipate clients’ needs and lead proactive projects to generate new business opportunities
  • Build the account sales budget, forecast, win rate, and monitor sales and profitability versus objectives
  • Business Development: Develop and successfully manage innovation strategic projects
  • Contribute to innovation pipeline and build brand positioning
  • Manage strategic plans to meet growth, sales & EBITA objectives
  • Execute all tactics of the Business Plan on an ongoing daily basis including financial tracking, gross profit analysis, pricing/contracts, new business planning, business opportunity targeting, & sales effectiveness
  • Contribute to pro-active Innovation Pipeline & build brand positioning to identify opportunities and increase sales
  • Executed Project Management of innovation projects from $25 to $300k from ideation to commercialization
  • Steered to completion over 300 fragrances rebalancing projects to save over $500k
  • ANGELAEVANS | aevans917@yahoo.com| (201) 471-8092 P age | 2 Creatively problem solve for challenges along critical project path to minimize impact on timeline and budget by proactively identifying risks, understanding major impact, and efficiently problem solving whilst considering budget, timing, and consumer/proposition ramifications
  • Instill Consumer Centricity as a best practice by integrating action standards into the innovation stage gate and tracking process as part of project management
  • Research & Identity competitive activity and market business to target customer key brands to provide for sales growth
  • Financial tracking; sales, forecasting, budget, core list funding, & marking innovation
  • Monitor gross profit per product globally
  • Initiate continual improvement program with regional accounts to achieve & surpass profit targets on product level
  • Maintaining a strategic overview of the competitors’ landscape, performance, & strategy to provide frequent reports, insights, and recommendations to enhance sales potential
  • Facilitate & lead workshops (LEAN Management) to develop efficient and effective process to save over $300k.

SENIOR PROJECT COORDINATOR

Talley Inc
Carlstadt, NJ
05.2013 - 09.2015
  • Drove and coordinated multiple large to mid-size projects from concept through to delivery whilst ensuring adherence to project management governance framework
  • Developed and executed comprehensive project plans to monitor and track deliverables, to identify and mitigate project risks whilst ensuring timely and within budget project delivery
  • Established strong collaborations with project stakeholders and client to efficiently problem solve emerging issues and to ensure project completion in line with client requirements
  • Achieved over 20% increase of shipment efficiency and 15% reduction of shipping costs by leveraging advanced negotiation and relationship building skills
  • Cultivated customer-oriented relationships to ensure complete customer satisfaction & to meet sales forecast.

PROJECT MANAGER

British Telecom
Edison, NJ
01.2001 - 01.2012
  • Project managed complex multi-site service infrastructure projects with a value of up to $4M to ensure completion on-time, on-schedule, within budget, meeting client requirements and SLAs
  • Conceptualized and delivered in- depth project planning and KPI establishment, monitored and tracked deliverables, risk mitigation, project team coordination and management
  • Spearheaded the 4-year transition project from Radianz-RXN to BT's MPLS Platform of over 4,000 users leading to enhanced connectivity to leading financial institutions
  • Achieved a higher margin profitability by delivering end-to-end project management of a 5 year
  • Disconnect Project serving over 5000 client connections
  • Headed delivery of a 1 Year Inventory Cleanup Project involving over 5,000 clients to timely completion and exceeding established KPI targets
  • Embedded a high-performance culture by initiating and implementing multiple training programs to upgrade skills of project managers and to achieve superior performance.

Education

Beauty Industry Essentials Certification - undefined

Fashion Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Caldwell College

Master of Strategic Project Management Certification -

Villanova University

Skills

COREPROFICIENCIES/SKILLSundefined

Timeline

PROJECT MANAGER

American Express Global Business, Cyber Security
05.2022 - Current

PROJECT MANAGER

Symrise
09.2015 - 05.2022

SENIOR PROJECT COORDINATOR

Talley Inc
05.2013 - 09.2015

PROJECT MANAGER

British Telecom
01.2001 - 01.2012

Beauty Industry Essentials Certification - undefined

Fashion Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

Caldwell College

Master of Strategic Project Management Certification -

Villanova University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Angela Evans