Gap .
Sr IT Project Manager
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4542 days ago
Project ManagementCRMForecastingSupply ChainLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- This position is perfect for a senior level IT project manager who is open to embrace new methodologies of software development and project management, in particular Agile.
- The ideal candidate would thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment that is team centric and highly collaborative.
- This person should have both classic and Agile IT project management experience, and be able to leverage the two disciplines as appropriate.
Responsibilities
- The selected candidate will manage complex software development, architecture, and integration projects in a fast paced, constantly changing dynamic environment
- Provide leadership, direction and integration activities with other Gap Inc IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support
- Partner with Application Delivery to ensure that systems are developed to comply with architectural and testing standards and established methodologies
- Aggressively manage risk and issues; and mitigation efforts as appropriate
- On some projects, manages and guides other Project Managers (very large projects where additional support is needed)
- Manage internal as well as external resources
Requirements
- Minimum 8 Years IT Experience
- Minimum 2 Years Agile experience
- Experience overseeing budgets of at least $5 million
- Experience overseeing project teams with at least 25 FTEs
- Demonstrated hands-on experience and expertise
- Demonstrated ability to ensure success on all projects through proven track record of applying proven methods and tools to enterprise-wide project implementations
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate, mitigate, and resolve conflicts across workgroups.
Nice to have
- Responsible for effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, managing and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives
- Oversee the day-to-day progress of project(s) and release initiatives with regard to time, budget, scope and quality
- Monitor and report to IT management on the status of project efforts (including weekly time reporting, weekly budget tracking, monthly forecasting, reconciliation and problem prevention/mitigation)
- and mitigation efforts as appropriate
- Act as a role model and mentor on project management methodology, standards, technical, strategy, quality and change leadership
- Act as a role model for PM professionalism, critical thinking and setting productivity pace as well as promoting a financial focus with emphasis on business value metric
- Encourage de-centralized decision-making within teams, but acts as escalation point when consensus decisions cannot be reached
- Minimum 6 Years IT Project Management Experience
Skills
- Apply proven project management techniques, methods and tools
- Use innovative problem solving and critical thinking approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across technologies
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