Senior Project Manager I

Location BENTONVILLE, AR Career Area Information Technology Job Function Technology Operations Employment Type Regular/Permanent Position Type Salary Requisition WD What you'll do at What you'll do Position: Senior Project Manager IJob Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716Duties: Develops and leads multiple cross-functional projects by anticipating and understanding current process and value gaps; benchmarking industry best practices; utilizing multiple methodologies to leverage data in order to inform business decisions; ensuring data accuracy and credibility; managing efforts to support sustainable best practices and complex, organization-wide projects; managing expectations of program and project leadership; and adjusting approaches in response to changing business demands. Manages current and forecasted projects by developing, prioritizing, and coordinating project work plans; supporting the review and selection of proposed projects; ensuring project objectives are aligned with overall program goals; forecasting and managing internal project resources; monitoring project milestones, expenditures, and costs against project schedules and budgets; tracking projects and communicating status to key stakeholders; overseeing the management project documentation; and acting as focal contact for project requests. Influences change processes by making data driven recommendations to support multiple projects; persuading and educating cross-functional teams or associates on new or enhanced business processes and building relationships with senior leadership to ensure the ongoing alignment of change initiatives with current and future business needs. Drives informed decision making for large cross-functional projects by collaborating with cross-functional project teams and leadership to identify goals, success criteria, assumptions, risks, and known issues with the project or program; identifying potential risks of programs or projects and developing strategies to mitigate those risks; prioritizing and ensuring resolution of critical issues; developing communication plan frameworks; overseeing the creation of communication plans; and educating sponsors, stakeholders, and executive leadership on project requirements.Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field plus 1 year of experience in business, operations, analytics, or related experience OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field plus 3 years of experience in business, operations, analytics, or related experienceSkills required: Must have experience with: Technical Project Management; Salesforce configuration and development; Implementing Sales and Finance workflows in the CRM; Bulk data loading and data quality maintenance; Architecting technical solutions based on business requirements; Training end users how to use flows / automations builds in CRM to carry functions; Solving ongoing production issues and supporting users; Managing user licenses, user profiles, installed packages, and updates; Collaborating with cross-functional teams in the shared CRM instance for changes, enhancements, and regression testing; Integrating with external applications to handle onboarding & financial (invoicing) of clients; Keeping the sandbox environments up to date & synced with production; Gathering requirements from stakeholders and communicating with the vendors or engineering teams; and Following and implementing Software development lifecycle process - Requirements, Development Testing and Deployment. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.