IT Project Manager - Infrastructure & Hardware Delivery

Position Purpose: The Project Manager is responsible for a combination of planning and execution of activities related to delivery of projects and/or financial/budgeting activity for their teams. When executing on project delivery, Project Leads are responsible for the success of one or more projects within a given timeline and budget, creation and maintenance of status reports, proactively managing issues and risks, and can work with 3rd party partners. When performing financial/budgeting activities they monitor and adjust to given budgets, track labor, capital spend, and support variance root cause analysis. Key Responsibilities: 85% Delivery & Execution Partners with stakeholders to lead the project planning effort, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and the required delivery dates, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, and definition of major project milestones. Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work. Experience in Agile, Waterfall or other project delivery methodologies. Ability and understanding of project plans and development, risk identification and mitigation. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives. Establishes and executes effective communication with Project Stakeholders. Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within Technology organization. Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for a project of group of initiatives. Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, then proactively risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans. 15% Resource and Financial Management Participates in vendor selection and onboarding processes in accordance with Home Depot policy; Can be involved with the purchase order and invoicing process for 3rd party vendors. Executes fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders; includes gross labor, capital spend, and non-labor forecasting for tracking, reporting, and variance analysis. Direct Manager/Direct Reports: Position reports typically reports to a Manager, Delivery Management This position has no direct reports Travel Requirements: Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time. Physical Requirements: Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Working Conditions: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. Minimum Qualifications: Must be eighteen years of age or older. Must be legally permitted to work in the United States. Preferred Qualifications: 2+ years of relevant work experience Experience working as a project manager delivering large scale IT hardware within a retail environment Professional Certifications (e.g., PMP) MS Project and office tools Experience with Microsoft Office tools and Project Management tools (MS Project, JIRA, etc.) Experience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies Experience managing technical projects Minimum Education: The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED. Preferred Education: No additional education Minimum Years of Work Experience: 2 Preferred Years of Work Experience: No additional years of experience Minimum Leadership Experience: None Preferred Leadership Experience: None Certifications: None Competencies: Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions Manages Ambiguity and Complexity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear Results Orientation: consistently delivers on commitments, takes initiative, has a bias toward action, takes responsibility, shows individual accountability, has a sense of urgency, makes timely decisions. Ability to manage through influence/leverage partnerships. Project management execution in a modern software environment #J-18808-Ljbffr The Home Depot