Overview
On Site
Contract - W2
Contract - 22 month(s)
Skills
Performance Management
Preventive Maintenance
Conceptual Design
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Software Development
Scheduling
Leadership
Financial Reporting
Electronic Commerce
Merchandising
Estimating
Project Planning
Resource Planning
Risk Management
Change Management
Release Management
COTS
Business Development
Business Communications
Writing
Productivity
JIRA
Confluence
Supply Chain Management
Warehouse Management
Program Management
Agile
Project Finance
Management
Budget
Product Management
Analytics
JDA
RedPrairie
WMS
Warehouse
Health Insurance
Insurance
Team Building
Collaboration
Wiki
Knowledge Base
Status Reports
Account Management
Enterprise Architecture
Project Management
Training
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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