Information Systems IS Project Management Sr. Program Manager

Job Overview:

The IT Project Portfolio Manager plays an important role to allow business executives and stake holders to bring their business ideas to fruition. With their business, strategy, and technical acumen the Sr. PM works with business, technology teams, and vendors to gather requirements, design/architect solutions and oversee them to completion.

This role will also own a portfolio of projects to manage relations, pipeline, and delivery and may manage additional resources.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage all sizes of projects as required by the company. Bring your large software implementation experience to help implement software implementation projects and lead software engineering activities.
• Manage projects by providing day-to-day leadership to analyze their requirements, developing designs, and implementing in-house legacy solution solutions.
• Work with business executives to manage portfolio planning and prioritization.
• Experience with handling custom development projects and integration with third party cloud-based solutions.
• Monitor and manage project financials, scope, and schedule to ensure project stays on track for assigned projects or portfolio of projects.
• Act as primary day-to-day point of contact for the business and the operational aspects of the project, including a focus on building strong business relationships.
• Facilitate regular status meetings with project team, sponsors, and all stakeholders.
• Assist IS team members in the key project delivery during requirements, design, testing and user acceptance testing sessions.
• Coordinate IS project teams to ensure that business requirements are effectively incorporated into design specifications, multi-platform integrations and data transfers.
• Identifies, assesses, and solves complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Conduct the Business Requirements gathering and To-Be state design workshops.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience managing multiple large software implementations – ERP, WMS, OMS, Planning, POS, E-Commerce Systems etc.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work cohesively within a team and/or effectively as an individual.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology or Management.
• Professional and confident while maintaining a focus on business success.
• Experience with building project roadmap & resourcing across different team.
• Experience with managing and implementing large scale application modernization projects like WMS, OMS, CRM, ERP etc.
• Experience in retail and e-commerce industry.
• Must be detail-oriented, self-organized, be committed to quality and be capable of tracking multiple issues simultaneously.

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