Project Manager

Robert Half is partnering with a global eCommerce enterprise in search of a highly skilled Program Manager to join their team in Seattle. This role requires an individual with a strong background in data analysis, risk management, and business operations optimization. The Program Manager will be responsible for overseeing cross-functional projects, managing risks and opportunities, and driving operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have experience influencing key stakeholders, delivering complex projects, and optimizing business processes.

Location: Seattle, WA (remote but all candidates must be local to Seattle)

Duration: 2-month initial contract w/ potential for extension

Hours: 40 hours/week

Pay Rate: $80-90/hour

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a high volume of requests and engagements in a fast-paced environment, ensuring seamless operations.
• Track existing metrics and develop new ones to validate schedule and team performance, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Create and implement performance improvement plans in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide detailed performance reports in weekly and monthly forums for senior leadership and partner teams.
• Set measurable targets that support the overall objectives of the organization.
• Translate internal team requirements into actionable risks and opportunities, ensuring project success.

Top 3 Focus Areas:

1. Data Analysis and Reporting: Demonstrated expertise in processing data, analyzing insights, and presenting key metrics to senior leadership for informed decision-making.
2. Risk and Issue Management: Proficiency in developing, managing, and optimizing a comprehensive program-level risk, issue, and opportunity management framework.
3. Business Operations Optimization: Experience in creating and streamlining operational processes to drive efficiency, centralization, and stakeholder adoption across the organization.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Proven ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating outcomes to senior leadership.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present to senior leaders and collaborate with both business and technical teams.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering solutions to complex challenges.
• Bachelor s degree required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience recommending and implementing solutions to achieve deliverables.
• Strong experience in developing structural solutions to ambiguous problems.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• MBA or Master s degree in management, business administration, engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• Experience working on aerospace products or projects is a plus.