Infrastructure Project Manager

Location: remote

Duration: 6 months, contract

Pay: $70.00+ hourly

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Retail client with over $80B in annual revenue has over 2,000 stores, across 21 US states, with over 400,000 employees. This company is a leader in sustainable retailing with a passion for delivering excellence. By driving omni channel growth, efficiency in the shopping experience and continuing to develop with new technologies; this company is growing and developing continuing success. The leadership team strives for work-life balance for all its employees, with options for overtime if desired.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for all aspects of the development/implementation of a systems project or program involving department or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a computer-based system from the design process through a finished state for internal/external customers.
• Provides a single point of contact for projects.
• Takes projects from the original concept through final implementation.
• Interfaces with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services, and client services.
• Defines project scope and objectives.
• Coordinates all aspects of project and serves as project manager between clients, systems, line management and other departments.
• Plans and directs schedules as well as project budgets.
• Monitors the product/program/project from initiation through delivery, interfacing with customer on technical and non-technical matters.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals.
• Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, budgets, and status reports.
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project deliverables.
• Manages the integration of vendor tasks, and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• May provide technical/analytical guidance to project team.
• Recommends/takes action to direct the analysis of and solution to problems.
• Responsible for end-to-end execution and on time, on budget and on scope delivery of the project.
• Responsible for Financial Management, Risk Management and Dependency management for the project.
• Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan.
• Works with the resource manager on the resource planning for the project.
• Accountable for maintaining the RAAIDD log.
• Escalates when required and holds people accountable for mitigation and resolution of risk and issues.
• Works with Project Accountants to get information for Financial Management on the project
• Responsible for managing changes in project scope, objectives, requirements, and resources and adherence to changing control policies.
• Collaborate with the solution team to take the project through changing control process when required.
• Collaborate with other project managers for dependencies and manage them with minimal impact to delivery.
• Manages and tracks interdependencies and interfaces with related projects.
• Collaborates with the solution team to ensure adherence to release management practices on the project.
• Accountable and responsible for receiving Go-No-Go Signoff.
• Holds delivery teams accountable for the development of architecture design documents, test plans, deployment and hyper care plan.
• Sets and manages stakeholder expectations.
• Responsible for project level governance and status reporting to right stakeholders at cadence
• Keeps the Portfolio Lead and Program Manager informed on all the risks, issues and dependencies on the projects and seek help when necessary.
• Responsible for issuing a communication close out email for the project and other close out activities including updating Clarity and retrospectives.
• Responsible for issuing communications for major changes (Before and after the change) that affect multiple applications and/or stores.
• Set vision for the project, analysis and resolve issues.
• Understand the team’s perspectives and protects the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required.
• Accountable to follow company processes and ensure all artifacts are produced and phase gates approvals are obtained.
• Coaches and mentors, the project team on the process and tools.
• Provide feedback and recommendations for improvement of company processes.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

• This role is to work on Infrastructure projects, therefore experience in Infrastructure is a must (Network implementations, Data Center/virtualization or implementation in stores).
• The candidate must be excellent at communication with senior leadership, peers and technical teams. Candidate needs to drive to results in ambiguous situations, follow processes and create artifacts (Or ensuring that those are created) and have experience managing directly Financials (Purchase Orders, actuals Accruals, forecast).
• This is mainly Waterfall methodology; however, the mindset needs to be agile to remove blockers, solve situations with the teams or escalate as necessary.
• Lead Implementation of network devices in stores, Distribution Centers and Corporate offices with the help of vendors/partners. It could include purchase Hardware, implementation of such hardware, communicating to stores to get implementation approvals.
• Lead Implementation of back-office devices in stores, Distribution Centers and Corporate offices with the help of vendor/partners.

Category Code: JN008