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Job Details
Are you ready to take your career to the next level and help lead a cutting-edge company into a bright future? We are actively seeking a talented and experienced technical project manager to oversee a wide variety of projects from conceptual design through implementation. We know how valuable your problem-solving and leadership skills are to our company's success. If you are ready to steer high-level projects to success, we are excited to have you on our team. The Sr. Tech Project Manager is responsible for delivering complex large-scale software development across multiple disciplines. The Sr. Tech Project Manager ensures on-time and on-schedule delivery working closely with Product, Technology, Business Partners, and Vendors.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Facilitate scope definition, cross-functional estimates, and high-level planning workshops.
- Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and deliverable tasks.
- Develop project plans and schedules with cross-discipline functional leads.
- Maintain release plans and align multiple environments to promote stories and tasks appropriately.
- Validate that scope can be completed within the timeline and budget.
- Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads.
- Work with cross-discipline team members to validate program and project assumptions.
- Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design, Technology, vendors, and other key functional delivery teams (when appropriate).
- Communicate regular status updates to the program and project executive leadership team on delivery progress, plan updates, budget spending, and forecasts.
- Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation.
- Facilitate meetings ensuring that meeting goals are stated and achieved.
- Prevent scope creep and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget are approved and communicated.
- Ensure proper program and project closure including retroactives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to sustainment and operations support, and final financial reporting.
Basic Qualifications
- 3-5 years of relevant work experience in program and project management with an online retailer, ideally in e-commerce, supply chain, merchandising, or operations.
- 2-3 years of Agile or Hybrid delivery experience.
- Possesses extensive experience in the basics of project management: 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.
- Experienced in multiple full lifecycle software deliveries from business development and discovery to final software acceptance.
- Experience in a matrixed responsibility organization working with multiple product managers and business analysts.
- Must possess excellent business communication, writing, and interpersonal skills.
- Able to work both collaboratively and independently while maintaining a high level of productivity.
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, and SharePoint.
- Proactive and solution-oriented when managing issues.
- Able to work under tight timetables and high-pressure situations.
- Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and able to juggle, shift gears, and maintain a sense of humor.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the supply chain industry, specifically warehouse management systems, is preferred.
- 5 years of relevant work experience in program management in digital/technology projects.
- 5 years of Agile or Hybrid delivery experience.
- Experience using Smartsheet, MS Copilot.
- Establish project financial forecasts including resource/labor plans and other expense plans.
- Proven track record managing individual project budgets or budget roll-up of multiple projects.
- Led teams with multiple discipline representation (including product management/strategy, technology, design, and analytics).
- Previous experience with Blue Yonder/JDA/Red Prairie WMS, or similar large-scale warehousing solutions.
Required Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
Benefits:
- 401(k).
- Dental Insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
- The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
- Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.
About us:
OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.
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