Senior Project Manager, Infrastructure - Sysco
Houston, TX
About the Job
JOB SUMMARY:
The Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager will coordinate initiatives across multiple product teams. They will utilize agile, as well as, conventional principles and methodologies to ensure successful project implementation. This position will ensure all project teams understand task dependencies, timelines and project implementation strategies. This position will also serve to remove impediments, provide communication across teams and management regarding project status, risks and accomplishments. Takes ownership of and is accountable for a portfolio of products, features, components, or solutions in a team leadership role and associated performance metrics. Engage directly with customers to ensure delivery of a high-quality, robust, and scalable product on a regular basis.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Drive team efficiencies through adhering to established standards and principles.
Understand waterfall methodology, SCRUM and Kanban frameworks and demonstrate the ability to apply across complex projects.
Facilitate project team meetings, daily stand-up, iteration planning, pilot/demo, and iteration retrospective/lessons learned meetings to drive successful project implementation and improvement .
Identify critical path tasks and schedule appropriately to meet project goals.
Help leadership to arrange product backlogs to maximize value, cost-cutting initiatives and strategic direction.
Help project teams to avoid and remove obstacles.
Communicate risks, issues, achievements, improvements etc to the appropriate audience.
Assess the maturity of the team and provide guidance on reaching higher levels of project delivery, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable.
Focus on delivering value to the business with continual process improvement.
Promote collaboration between cross-functional teams.
Demonstrate high competency in project management and the execution of multiple large projects, including managing resources across multiple projects to meet goals.
Foster an environment of continuous learning and improving.
Ability to work in a matrix environment; collaborate with supporting teams to achieve goals and ensure solutions are not siloed.
Understand and describe processes and methodologies the team is implementing and be able to discuss their benefits so that the team understands the value that can be achieved.
Organize and facilitate meetings with the business units and project teams to identify and resolve issues, manage risks and communicate project updates.
Seek to inspire and motivate others, promoting positive teamwork by maintaining high levels of energy and optimism.
Create an environment where people want to excel and encourage others to work as a team for the success of the organization.
Solves escalated issues and directly contributes to problem resolution. Acts as a coach during conflict management and leverages crisis management techniques.
Rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Adjusts project plans based on input from staff and stakeholders.
Act as a leader and guide project team members to engage in project planning and execution as a cohesive team.
Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work.
Ensures project(s) is aligned with strategic vision and subsequent priorities.
Responsible and accountable for a portfolio of products, features, components, or solutions in a team leadership role and associated performance metrics.
Develops project teams and staffing plans based on consideration of strategic objectives and vision.
Support senior leadership and finance business partner on IT business case creation.
Considers financial data when making decisions.
Directly communicates with a broad range of business and technical stakeholders across the organization.
Utilizes advanced knowledge to deliver technical presentations to a variety of audiences including key stakeholders and various levels of leadership.
Synthesizes data and other information to arrive at insights and develop compelling stories for team members and/or stakeholders.
Identifies risks and their potential outcomes and implements working solutions.
Serves as an industry authority and thought leader internally.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and / or Experience:
BS Degree in Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Master's Degree or related experience is preferred.
Minimum 10 years of overall IT (or related area) work.
Minimum 5 years of leadership experience.
Agile methodologies experience preferred.
Professional Skills:
Understand and implement agile and/or traditional project management principles and methodologies as required by project type.
Excellent leadership capability and managerial skills; Dynamic leadership ability that can develop and energize multi-discipline, high- performance work teams to learn and apply new skills/techniques to business needs.
Drive enterprise objectives through the ability to predict, analyze, and manage cultural and technological changes within the organization.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; an ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others and gains understanding.
Demonstrated good judgment with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Ability to forge strong partnerships with vendors, business partners, and internal customers.
Ability to meet deadlines and produce quality results under pressure.
Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Highly motivated to accomplish desired goals and outcomes and requires little or no supervision or direction to achieve them.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Flexible; readily accepts new changes; open to new ideas.
Proven ability to identify, focus on, and own high priority issues and tasks.
Excellent organizational and prioritization skills; manages time well.
Ability to work in a group setting or independently.
Good understanding of corporate policies, practices, and organizations.
Experience in Food Service/Distribution, CPG, or Retail is helpful but not required.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Working Conditions:
The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by associates within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of associates assigned to this job.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position can be performed from the corporate facility.
Must be able to do limited travel to Sysco facilities or operating companies.