Project Manager III

Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 7-month contract
Pay: $65+/hour W2

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
Project Execution

• 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 change control policies
• Collaborate with solution team to take the project through change control process when required
• Collaborate with other project managers for dependencies and manages them with minimal impact to delivery
• Manage and track 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 document, test plans, deployment and hypercare plan

Reporting & Communication

• 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 seeks helps 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

People Leadership

• Set vision for the project, analysis and resolves issues
• Understand the team's perspectives and protects the team by negotiating with stakeholders as required

Process, Tools, Standards, and Continuous Improvement

• Accountable to follow our client’s IT processes and ensures 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 to improvement of our client’s IT processes