Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Program Manager to support AutoZone's Cloud team on a mission to enable AutoZone’s goal of making our compute platforms highly available, resilient and scalable.
Apart from excelling at scope/budget/schedule management and stakeholder communications, this role is expected to collaborate and work efficiently with internal IT and business teams on their day-to-day duties as their work greatly impacts lot of internal teams/projects. This position directly reports to the Director of the cloud team with visibility on their work and contributions across the organization.
We are looking for ideal candidates with 8 to 10 years of project management experience working with multi-cultural, multi-regional cross functional teams. Greater than 5 years of experience but the right background will be considered for strong candidates 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
Defining the program governance (controls)
Lead the team toward delivering our customer’s solution in time and within budget
Lead daily/weekly stand-ups and meetings
Lead, 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
Assume responsibility for the programs team and vendors
Manage and communicate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies in a timely manner during the execution of the projects
Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies and activities
Managing and utilizing resources across projects
Managing stakeholders’ communications
Managing the main program documentation such as the program initiation document, project closing documents, monthly financial forecasts, weekly financial
summaries, weekly status reports etc.
Work with AutoZone PMO group 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
Background managing Vendor relationships with Staff augmentation, implementation partner and SaaS solution providers is expected/ desired
Agile experience is highly desired
Typically reports to IT Manager but sometimes may report to IT Director.
Bachelor’s degree in management or a relevant field;
· Experience in retail industry will be preferable. Familiarity with one or more of merchandising, supply chain or digital will be a plus.
· 5 to 10 years’ experience in project management experience
· Requires proven experience as a Program Manager or other managerial position
· Excellent organizational, communication, management 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
1. Day-to-day Vendor liaison
2. Change control management
3. 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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