Are you a seasoned Project/Program Manager with a passion for ecommerce and technology? We are looking for a skilled professional to lead a large-scale IT program focused on designing and implementing a new ecommerce platform. This role offers the opportunity to work with senior leadership and multiple teams to ensure successful delivery and integration with existing systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute overall program strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
- Plan, manage, and oversee multiple workstreams, ensuring all milestones and deliverables are met on time and within budget.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, including internal departments, vendor resources, and external partners.
- Foster collaboration across business, technical, and vendor teams to ensure cohesive and efficient delivery.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate detailed project timelines, ensuring visibility and accountability for key milestones.
- Manage the creation and review of both technical and business deliverables, ensuring completeness and quality.
- Identify and mitigate risks, resolve issues, and escalate concerns as needed.
- Oversee vendor relationships, ensuring delivery commitments are met and managing vendor performance.
- Partner with senior leaders to communicate program status, challenges, and successes, maintaining trust and alignment.
- Develop and manage program budgets, ensuring financial tracking and reporting is accurate and timely.
- Optimize resource allocation across teams and vendors, balancing cost, quality, and time considerations.
Skills
- BA/BS degree in an analytical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of experience in IT project/program management, with a focus on ecommerce, retail, B2B, B2C or enterprise system integration.
- Proven ability to manage large, complex programs involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Experience managing vendors and ensuring adherence to contract deliverables.
- Experience in working with multi-location and offshore teams.
- Excellent communication and coalition building skills with an ability to balance, negotiate and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior leadership.
- Strong organizational skills, with a meticulous approach to managing timelines, budgets, deliverables, resource organization, project/task prioritization and schedule development.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks on highly visible projects with aggressive timelines.
- Entrepreneurial attitude and ability to produce high-quality work as part of a fast-paced, dynamic team.
- Ability to work and lead through change.
- An unrelenting commitment to deliver on-time and on-budget.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams whose members are often assigned part-time to a specific project.
- Strong analytical ability to devise systems and/or process solutions to solve complex business problems.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions and effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology.
Preferred Skills
- Expertise in ecommerce platforms, particularly the Broadleaf platform, and integration with backend systems.
- Mastery of project management tools including Atlassian and Microsoft tools.
- Strong expertise in both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies, with hands-on experience using Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Jira Advanced Roadmap Plans).
- Understanding of enterprise system architecture and integration principles.
- Knowledge of budgeting and financial tracking tools.
- Experience creating detailed reports and presenting to senior leadership.
- Advanced proficiency in usage of Atlassian Jira and other Atlassian products for full SDLC delivery and reporting.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals feel valued and respected. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and join our team.
Once you apply for this position, you may receive a phone call, SMS or email at the time of application from our Virtual AI Recruiter, Alex, to conduct an initial interview.
Horizontal facilitates valuable and productive conversations between you and potential employers. We can assist you in growing your career by partnering you with employers that offer challenging assignments. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $57 - $92 per hour. This is not a guarantee of compensation, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.
In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us. All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.
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