Senior IT Project Manager (Retail Tech Experience)

Senior IT Project Manager (Retail Tech Experience) Glen Rock, NJ 07452 $125,000

• $138,000 a year
• Full-time $125,000
• $138,000 a year
• Full-time Our client is an international retail/hospitality organization with a growing presence in the US.

They are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager with a good grasp of the technical environment within retail organizations. This position will be highly visible with outstanding opportunity for growth. This is a direct hire opportunity that requires 3 days onsite in Northeast New Jersey.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting into the Director of Projects and Innovation, providing them with weekly updates on all workstreams and responsibilities Supporting the successful coordination and delivery of the IT Program Be instrumental in building a tailored PMO function in the US IT team, ingesting existing & new projects into the framework and providing ongoing management support To deliver assigned change Programs and standalone IT Projects on time, within budget and quality. Weekly meeting cadence with PMO team and stakeholders to review project artifacts & progress Support, motivate, guide, coach and develop the IT PMs in Project Management including definition of scope, objectives, planning, stage gates, quality criteria & communication plans, ensuring involvement of all relevant stakeholders Develop detailed project plans to set deadlines, assign responsibilities/resources and monitor progress of own projects with standard PM artifacts such as risk registers, RACIs, test plans, and training documentation Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques Show leadership in managing key stakeholders and maintaining communications plans Drafting and reviewing Project Mandates to ensure initiatives align to the Business and IT strategies Scope and business case management & collation through the PMO Perform discovery efforts to compare solutions and vendors that meet the business needs, IT standards and budgeting requirements Ensure structured Quality control/procedures and processes are in place and adhered to Risk & Change Management. Ensure that Project risks, issues and constraints are 'rolled-up' to the wider IT Program, driving risk-mitigation, issue-resolution and constraint-management at a Program level; managing, supporting and updating as needed Prepare and deliver updates for assigned programs in a timely manner Prepare Project Status Reports, collate & review PSRs from the PM team and issue weekly to stakeholders and IT Working with other internal functions such as BAs, IT Operations, IT Apps & Data teams, Master Data Team, Database team & Data Architects to determine their roles in projects, and track their contributions Build strong working and strategic relationships with a variety of suppliers, augmenting internal teams where needed to deliver the Program, and ensuring suppliers adhere to high quality on-scope, on-time, on-budget delivery Deputize for the Director of Projects and Innovation as needed including assisting in the creation, presentation and ongoing upkeep of IT strategies, business-steering, senior level communications and other administrative duties

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Senior Leadership Team (SLT) Commercial team and Brand Directors Finance, legal and compliance teams HR team Operations (IT and Business) IT team including Group IT External partners and suppliers

PERFORMANCE MEASURES

Successful delivery of assigned change Programs and Projects to time, cost, quality, and scope with limited guidance from leadership Positive stakeholder and senior leadership feedback across the organization Project Manager leadership and development within the PMO Supplier management and supplier performance

QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE A

proven background in delivering IT change initiatives in a complex organization, retail preferred Experience in varied project methodologies with the ability to know when to work 'agile' and when to work 'waterfall' while applying the correct level of governance to stay delivery-focused Understanding the running of a PMO is advantageous and a desire to make this a career path Experience in managing multiple projects concurrently in a mixed-delivery environment of both internal and external delivery teams and shared multi-project resources Ability to work, and lead, under pressure

• and meet tight deadlines while remaining results driven Strong communication and influencing skills People-management and leadership skills; coaching, mentoring and developing Project Managers in a nice to have Supplier management experience including negotiation, tender and contract management Clear and concise presentation skills, including experience in program updates to senior teams Strong financial and budget management, managing project budgets, and tightly controlling capital expenditure Business or systems analysis experience with exposure to Point of Sale and/or data integrations Ability to take ambiguous requirements and refine them to clear objectives and deliverables

COMPETENCIES, OPERATING STYLE AND BEHAVIOURS

Proactively sets the agenda Can energize and influence others Can make the tough calls and challenges the norm Is obviously passionate about their role Gets things executed and done

• "Can Do!

" Going the extra mile is just who you are

Pay:

$125,000.00

• $138,000.

00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off Vision insurance

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Glen Rock, NJ 07452