Senior Manager Store Systems

About the opportunity:

Ensures that program scope and business objectives are clearly documented and agreed to for complex, cross-functional projects.

Work with technical teams and technical team leadership to align on timelines and ensure tech teams are deliverables are met.

Identify and organize the appropriate cross-functional teams to achieve project goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop detailed project plans. Identifying the proper work streams owners and cross-work stream dependencies. Coach teams to ensure the project team works together efficiently and effectively.

Work collaboratively with business owners to define the initial budget and resources required. Manage and analyze on-going financials to ensure the project is tracking to budget.

Understand the details of the project plan to effectively manage the dependencies and adjust plans as necessary. Drive accountability and project progress according to the aligned-on project plan.

Identify and document project risks and issues, escalating when appropriate and developing mitigation strategies to minimize project impacts.

Through regular cadence of reporting, ensure visibility and transparency on project progress milestones, financial governance, issues, and risks.

Focus on driving results, finding cost savings opportunities and efficiencies in the project life cycle while leveraging project best practices.

Ability to effectively facilitate meetings of varying size and purpose.

Responsibilities:

Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.

Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.

Create efficient powerpoints to be presented in exec level meetings.

Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.

Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.

Performing requirements analysis.

Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.

Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.

Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.

Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.

Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.

Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.

Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.

Performing user acceptance testing.

Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.

Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.

Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.

Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.

Managing competing resources and priorities.

Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

In addition to the skills above, the Project Manager needs to be proficient and demonstrate the following leadership competencies:

Ability to effectively build relationships to influence stakeholders and teams through indirect leadership, working across organizational lines and varying levels of the organization, including VP/SVP level.

Demonstrated ability to communicate key project points and adjust communications as needed based on audience, making the complex simple to understand.

Develop an understanding of company vision, strategy, and key initiatives. Achieve detailed understanding of the functional area of the project and related processes to be able to challenge assumptions and thinking and provide thought leadership.

Ability to solve problems by assessing the situation, leveraging data where applicable, identifying root cause and developing potential solutions.

Ability to operate in environments with ambiguity and ability to create clarity.

High level of agility and adaptability; ability to quickly learn details of new business functions and operate in various project methodologies.

Identify dependencies and impacts of project changes across other key initiatives.

Contribute to continuous improvement of Store Technology team processes and maturity.

Manage collaboration and communication with other teams, both internal and external, to ensure teams have what they need and can work efficiently.

Technical background, Project Management and Release and Delivery management is key for this role.

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelors/ 4yrs. Degree. Masters preferred.

Experience: 5 - 10 years’ experience leading teams and/or projects, setting strategic direction and execution plans, Program Management, and project governance.

Familiarity with project governance and PMP ideologies. PMP not required but preferred.

Strong analytical skills and process improvement viewpoint.

Strong Word/Excel/PowerPoint skills mandatory.

Excellent verbal & written communication skills required.

Effectively interact & influence internal & external stakeholders at all levels.