- Retail experience
- Minimum 7 years of program management experience
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Looking for a strong store retail
Program Manager contractor to take on a collection of projects spanning several store experiences. Must be good with multitasking and senior enough to operate independently with little oversight or training on "how to manage a project and stakeholders."
The Program Manager role is essential to delivering critical business-impacting, and transformational programs. The Program Manager should have a proven track record of delivering world-class products within complex digital environments, concentrating on retail store role structures. Our ideal candidate will bring a broad range of program and agile experience working within large-scale organizations with specific knowledge of digital technologies and processes at scale.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, architecture, and external stakeholders to define success criteria and business impact through data-driven insights.
- Leverage this understanding when prioritizing work to ensure delivery of the highest-priority initiatives.
- Ensure comprehensive project planning, including detailed budgets, milestones, deliverables, resource allocation, dependencies, and risk mitigation strategies, while remaining flexible to adapt plans based on evolving business needs and real-time data.
- Provide a consistent model and clear expectations for budget management from initial forecasting to tracking actuals, and proactively identify and address any deviations from the plan.
- Inspire and lead cross-functional teams through evolving project challenges—including scope, schedule, and cost changes—by fostering clear communication, continuous alignment, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Develop and execute proactive, actionable risk management plans, ensuring early identification of risks and collaborative resolution to drive successful outcomes with minimal disruption.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and executives, enabling accelerated development and value delivery.
- Promote open, honest communication to identify challenges and co-create impactful solutions that drive consumer value.
- Identify and engage key stakeholders to ensure their voice is integrated into program decision-making, fostering alignment across departments and maximizing the impact of each initiative.
- Lead teams through ambiguity and complex challenges with clarity, resilience, and a focus on innovative solutions. Apply principled decision-making frameworks with consistency and rigor to drive success in dynamic environments.
- Develop standard reporting and metrics to provide real-time visibility into the project as well as team health.
- Leverage agile best practices within Product Management, Engineering, Marketing and Business Development to optimize cross-team and cross-organizational collaboration and communication.
Minimum Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Retail experience
- Minimum 7 years of program management experience preferably in the Retail Technology space - partnering with Product Managers, Engineering, Analysts, Data Science, Human Resources, and Store Operations.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with demonstrated experience influencing and engaging diverse audiences, from team members to C-level executives, using data-driven storytelling.
- Strong leadership skills; able to successfully influence without authority.
- Experience interfacing with external customers, partners and vendors to lead project delivery.
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies, including hands-on experience with Scrum, Kanban, or scaled frameworks, like SAFe, to drive continuous delivery in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with Jira and Aha! a plus.
Reference: 1062455
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At Revel IT, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or our other open roles!
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