GAP - PMO (8-12 yrs)
The individual in this role will partner with technical leads from functions such as Inventory Data Science and Engineering Architecture to manage activities within the IM PdM business unit.
- This position interacts closely with various people across multiple functions, not limited to Inventory Management, Product Management, Supply Chain and IT.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manages multiple projects simultaneously within the IM PdM business unit, making trade-offs where necessary to ensure overall program goals are met
- Manages cross-project and cross-program interdependencies
- Builds high-performing teams in a dynamic and changing business environment
- Encourages collaboration and proactively seeks opportunities to improve communication between team members from different functions and geographies
- Ensures meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved and their cadence is maintained
- Tracks and ensures visibility of project and program progress
- Emphasizes the need for iterative work and prioritization by value and risk
- Assists with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information, especially relative to team performance, progress towards goals, and team capacity
- Partners with project leads to ensure the team is producing solutions that meet the needs of the organization in a changing and dynamic environment
- Collaborates with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans
- Instills a sense of urgency reflecting goals and vision
- Optimizes, increases and sustains throughput
- Proactively identifies and removes blockers
- Facilitates retrospectives to identify and implement improvements
- Maintains project documentation
- Participates proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices
Requirements:
- 8+ years of project management experience
- Experience working with Big Data and/or Analytics preferred
- Preferred to be a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
- Must have a proven track record overseeing large project teams with at least 15 team members
- Impeccable written and verbal communication and time management skills
- Must be self-motivated, organized, self-confident and self-directing with a proven ability to identify priorities and mobilize initiatives in an orderly fashion to achieve desired results with minimal supervision
- Demonstrate judgment in selecting Project Management methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Must be effective and efficient in identifying and proposing creative, innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges
- Exceptional business acumen. Must be effective at working at all levels in the organization.
Education:
- BA/BS degree
- MBA preferred
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