Sr Project Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages and oversees the execution of simultaneous technology, business and facility projects from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to scope, budget, and schedule.
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, and budgets for IT initiatives.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress, milestones, and risks to ensure successful delivery.
• Cook up cross-functional teams to ensure clear communication and alignment of project objectives.
• Conducts regular project status meetings and provides routine updates to stakeholders and senior leadership, highlighting key milestones, issues, risks, and achievements.
• Ensure adherence to VF PMO policies and best practices.
• Cook up vendor selection and evaluation processes, including demos, comparisons, and implementation timelines.
• Oversee project financials, ensuring visibility into budgeting, forecasting, and performance against plan.
• Manage vendors and hold them accountable for their delivery activities.
• Capture lessons learned, promote continuous improvement, and obtain final project approvals.
• Facilitate change requests to ensure approval and alignment on the impacts of change on scope, schedule and budget.
• Cook up resources across multiple teams, including IT, business units, and external vendors and contractors, to ensure optimal utilization and project success.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations to communicate project progress, outcomes, and strategic recommendations.

Requirements

• General understanding of information technology environments including infrastructure, systems and application software is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding of software development practices, methodologies, tools, and quality processes.
• Ability to maintain quality standards while working in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at a C Suite level.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand business needs, processes, and data sources.
• Able to identify and coordinate cross-project dependencies.

Skills

• General understanding of information technology environments including infrastructure, systems and application software is highly desirable.
• Solid understanding of software development practices, methodologies, tools, and quality processes.
• Ability to maintain quality standards while working in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at a C Suite level.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand business needs, processes, and data sources.
• Able to identify and coordinate cross-project dependencies.

Qualifications

• Technical experience with Oracle, JDE, MuleSoft and Snowflake.
• PMI or other project management experience and certifications are a plus.
• Proficiency in computer applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Project, ServiceNow or similar planning tool.
• Bachelor's degree preferred, advanced degree highly desirable.