We are looking for an experienced Sr. Project Manager who is passionate to join, participate and contribute to AutoZone's Merchandising team on a mission to enable AutoZone’s multiyear Retail transformation initiatives. This position will provide strategic guidance to our Retail initiatives, manage the sequencing and execute within the budget and timelines by following our company policies and culture.
In addition to excelling at scope, budget, schedule management, and stakeholder communication, we expect our Project Managers to effectively collaborate with various internal IT and business teams in their day-to-day duties, as their work has a significant impact on numerous internal teams and projects. This position will also lead all scrum ceremonies for their assigned projects.
We are looking for ideal candidates with at least 5 years of project management experience working with multi-cultural, multi-regional cross functional teams. The candidate should be able to lead efficient strategies and tactics during our transformation, provide outstanding leadership ability to implement new processes, standards and governance, to follow best practices and standards set-up within the organization.
Responsibilities:
Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and deliver projects and programs
Decide on suitable strategies and objectives for the project
Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects
Lead the team toward delivering our customer’s solution in time and within budget
Lead scrum ceremonies such as daily/weekly stand-ups, refinement, planning etc.
Coordinate with, evaluate and help other project managers in the team
Develop, manage and control deadlines, budgets, and scope
Apply change, risk and resource management techniques as needed
Manage and communicate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies in a timely manner during the execution of the projects
Coordinate the projects and their interdependencies and activities
Manage and utilizing resources across projects
Manage stakeholders’ communications
Manage the main program/project documentation such as the initiation document, project closing documents, monthly financial forecasts, weekly financial summaries, weekly status reports etc.
Follow AutoZone defined policies/procedures and execute the same during each phase of the projects.
Ability to work unsupervised, with little management oversight
Capture KPIs and effectively communicate to stakeholders
Typically reports to IT Manager but sometimes may report to IT Director
Assist in managing vendor relationships with staff augmentation, implementation partners and SaaS solution providers
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or closely related field.
5+ years’ experience in project management
Experience in Agile/Scrum Methodology
Excellent organizational, communication and leadership skills
Excellent Knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles
Excellent knowledge of MS Office, working knowledge of program/project management software (Basecamp, MS Project, etc.)
Experience with budget, scope and schedule management
Readiness to work with multi-cultural, cross geographical teams
Excellent problem-solving ability, relevant domain an analytical skill.
Outstanding grasp of IT concepts, processes, and web standards
Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
Vendor management experience as outlined in responsibilities with specific experience on
Day-to-day Vendor liaison
Change control management
Process invoices
Benefits at AutoZone
AutoZone cares about people. That’s why AutoZone offers thoughtful benefits programs designed to improve AutoZoners’ physical, mental and financial wellbeing. Some of these benefits include:
· Competitive pay and time off
· Unrivaled company culture
· Medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability insurance options
· 401(k) with Company match and Stock Purchase Plan
· Mental and physical wellbeing programs
· Opportunities for career growth and tuition reimbursement
Eligibility and waiting period requirements may apply. Learn more about all that AutoZone has to offer on careers.autozone.com.
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