IT Project Manager- e-commerce

Title: IT Project Manager
-SDLC (eCOMMERCE)

Location: Orlando, FL (Hybrid 4 days onsite)

Compensation: $80.00 - $85.00/hour w2

Duration: 18+ month contract

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

The Senior Technical Project Manager is charged with the delivery of complex software development projects across multiple disciplines and Lines of Business for the Retail Technology organization. You will blend program management, project delivery, along with financial and product experience. You will concurrently manage multiple, medium to large technology and digital projects across web and mobile applications, and/or one or more specific tracks within much larger scale programs, with oversight from a Delivery Lead.

You will ensure on-time and on-schedule delivery for their projects working closely with Product, Technology, Operations and Design. You will report to the Manager, Technical Program and Project Management.

• Support Leadership with a delivery mindset

• Facilitate scope definition, high-level planning, discovery, and estimation workshops for projects with cross-functional teams

• Quantify cost factors to deliver project deliverables including resources, project oversight, objective risk and related contingency

• Document key assumptions and dependencies established through estimation activities

• Prepare and present high-level plan with estimates for executives and cross-functional leaders based on estimate outcomes

• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks

• Establish project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans

• Develop the project plan and schedule with cross discipline functional leads

• Ensure necessary steps and dependencies to deliver projects and components are established

• Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget

• Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads

• Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks of large programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered on-time and on-budget

• Manage resource assignment, budget, scheduling, scope prioritization, and change control

• Work with cross discipline team members to validate project assumptions and review project plans with leadership

• Ensure proper documentation of scope of work with help from cross discipline functional leads

• Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams including Product Management, Design, Technology, Operations/Continuous Delivery, Release Management, vendors and other key functional delivery teams (when appropriate)

• Communicate regular updates to project and executive leadership on delivery progress, plan updates, budget spend and forecast (status reports, financial/budget/variance reports, and other required reporting)

• Monitor adherence to schedule and milestone commitments

• Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation

• Prevent scope creep, record causes of change, and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget are approved and communicated

• Use metrics, including burn-down charts, to drive performance, efficiency and forecast improvements

• Ensure proper project closure including retroactives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting

• Tell a compelling story when communicating to Leadership

• Knowledge of multi-channel e-commerce and having managed large-scale efforts

• Adapt to frequent changes in direction and priority

• Experience working with and integrating delivery methods across teams with multiple disciplines (product management/strategy, technology, design, SEO, analytics)

• Experience working in a matrix organization

• Expert knowledge of the software development life cycle, ideally in eCommerce, marketing, merchandising, or operations

• Experience assisting with backlog refinement and prioritization

• 3+ years project management experience (Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, hybrid delivery)

• 2–4 years vendor management experience

• Direct management and accountability for single project…