Job Description
Job Summary:
Our client is seeking an IT Project Manager who will facilitate scope definition, cross-functional estimates, and high-level planning workshops. This opportunity is located in Lake Buena Vista, FL!
Duties:
- Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and tasks
- Develop project plans and schedules in collaboration with cross-discipline functional leads
- Maintain release plans and align multiple environments to ensure appropriate promotion of stories and tasks
- Validate that scope can be completed within the timeline and budget
- Estimate resource needs with input from functional leads
- Work with cross-discipline team members to validate program and project assumptions
- Serve as the primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors, and other key functional delivery teams, as appropriate
- Communicate regular status updates to program and project executive leadership on delivery progress, plan updates, budget spend, and forecasts
- Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation
- Facilitate meetings, ensuring goals are stated and achieved
- Prevent scope creep and facilitate change requests to ensure schedule or budget impacts are approved and communicated
- Ensure proper program and project closure, including retrospectives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to sustainment and operations support, and final financial reporting
Desired Skills/Experience:
- 3+ years of relevant work experience in program and project management with an online retailer, ideally in e-commerce, supply chain, merchandising, or operations
- 2+ years of Agile or Hybrid delivery experience
- Extensive experience in core project management principles, including estimation, program and project planning, resource planning, risk management, change management, and release management
- Experience with modifying or extending a Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) solution
- Proven experience managing multiple full lifecycle software deliveries, from business development and discovery to final software acceptance
- Experience working in a matrixed responsibility organization with multiple product managers and business analysts
- Strong business communication, writing, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work both collaboratively and independently while maintaining high productivity
- Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, and SharePoint
- Proactive and solution-oriented approach to issue management
- Ability to perform under tight timelines and high-pressure situations
- Strong analytical and assessment capabilities
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, capable of multitasking, adapting to shifting priorities, and maintaining a sense of humor.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
- 401K offered
$57.94 - $82.77 (est. hourly pay rate)
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