GAP - PMO

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