Sr Advisor-Program Manager

This position will be domiciled at a FedEx Freight location in Memphis, Tennessee. You will be required to work at a FedEx Freight location several times per week.

About the Role

Supports efforts to provide technical expertise and support for planning, developing, organizing, and coordinating small and medium programs/projects. Research evaluates and recommends new technologies, methodologies, processes, and products to achieve innovative improvements. Collects, analyzes, and produces financial and performance indicators and forecasts.

Responsibilities

• Ability to manage competing demands while maintaining out-of-the-box thinking.
• Knowledge in agile product development life cycle (PDLC) and/or software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies with some experience leading projects.
• Product launch from "0 to 1" optimizing it for "1 to many" in your portfolio.
• Focus on scale with the flexibility to adapt in a constantly evolving environment.
• Experienced in partnering with and bringing multiple departments into alignment.
• Able to communicate complex data in a simple format to share decisions, process updates, and tradeoffs to large audiences (e.g., in-person meetings, asynchronous meetings, email, and/or shared live docs).
• Process-driven with a bias toward action.
• Solution-based thinking with the ability to break down complex concepts into understandable, smaller, and sequential deliverables.
• Influencing skills to guide stakeholders to understand vision, resources, priorities, and definition of completion/release.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• Seven (7) years’ experience in project/program management, product development, systems design/development, or business/financial planning and analysis.
• Ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner.
• Experience in the use of project management/planning software.
• Experience in planning major projects including development of project proposals, business cases, schedules, and financial justification.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
• Must be able to communicate with customers effectively and present ideas and solutions in a user-friendly language.

Some travel required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with enterprise-level contracts.
• Experience leading technical projects including software and hardware initiatives in a datacenter context.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Bonus points for experience within high-growth tech startup.