Sr. Program Manager Recommendations - Perfict Global, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
About the Job
Perfict Global is a leading IT consulting services provider focused on providing innovative and successful business workforce solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Our trained and experienced professionals constantly strive to bring together the best technologies available to manage client's complex business and technology, participate in implementation activities and collaborate in new ways to meet client needs.
We provide excellent benefits such as Medical, Dental, Vision ++ a fun company to work!!!
Job description:
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Senior Program Manager
12-month contract (long term extendable)
4 Days Onsite (any order, most people are remote Friday)
100 North Point, San Francisco, California, United States, 94133
Description:
Program Manager to manage E-Commerce domain comprising Product Finding, AI-driven Recommendations, and Digital Design. Needs to be a leader who can work as a partner at a peer level with Product and Engineering VPs. Needs to be able to organize and structure early-stage, evolving projects with a light touch. Needs to manage rapidly iterating work, and be able to pivot teams as needed to maintain rapid progress.
Uses established project management methodologies/tools to develop and execute IT project plans. Responsible for Williams-Sonoma SDLC compliance.
Specific Responsibilities
Performs all of the senior project manager duties plus:
" Using established project management methodology/tools, develops project plans for highly complex projects of strategic importance which include work plans, schedules, budgets, needed skills and resources, project scope and deliverable/responsibility matrices
" Performs variance analysis (including schedule, costs vs. budgets, resources and changes to scope). Makes trade-offs with sponsor, as necessary
" Performs project risk assessment quantification, response planning and control
" Communicates risks to clients and/or IT management, project sponsors & vendors
" Develops and executes mitigation strategies
" Validates client and functional requirements for sponsor
" Determines the impact on current/existing technologies and communicates impact to clients, sponsor, IT management and vendor
" Makes recommendations on existing application products that could address client requirements
" Evaluates alternative operational efficiencies /business process change
" Makes presentations to IT management, sponsors, and/or vendors
" Accountable for pre and post implementation plans
" Provides work direction to project managers
" Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
" Exercises strong judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
" Orchestrates and recommends Program strategy
" Able to discern and clearly articulate how program decisions impact the big picture and vice versa
" Frequently interacts with customers, and/or functional peer group IC'S/managers, normally involving matters between functional areas or internal customers
" May interact with business leadership at all levels
" Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise
" Coaches, mentors, and trains as appropriate
" Contributes to performance appraisals for team members
" Assists in conducting team building/development activities
" Receives limited instruction in determining methods and procedures on new assignments, and coordinates activities of other associates in group