The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Sr. Technical PM in Orlando, FL.

Role Description

Program and Project Estimations
• Facilitate scope definition, cross-functional estimates and high-level planning workshops
• Quantify cost factors to deliver program and project deliverables including resources, program and 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 Program and Project Planning
• Create full-scale master program and project schedules and communication plans consisting of multiple projects or components
• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks
• Establish program and project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans
• Develop the program and project plans and schedules with cross discipline functional leads
• Ensure necessary steps and dependencies to deliver programs and projects and their components are established
• Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget
• Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads Program and Project Delivery
• Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, components of large programs, and full programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered on-time and on-budget
• Manage resource assignments, budgets, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change control
• Work with cross discipline team members to validate program and project assumptions and review individual program and project plans with senior 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, vendors and other key functional delivery teams (when appropriate)
• Communicate regular status updates to program and project executive leadership team on delivery progress, plan updates and budget spend and forecast
• Monitor adherence to master schedule and milestone commitments
• Analyze labor demand vs. capacity labor to ensure efficient resource assignments
• Escalate key issues and risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation
• Prevent scope creep and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget are approved and communicated
• Use metrics to drive performance, efficiency and forecast improvements
• Ensure proper program and project closure including retroactives/lessons learned, transition and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting Supervise Delivery Project Managers
• May provide leadership and coaching for a small team of project managers (2 to 5 team members)
• Assist in identifying and analyzing project management staffing needs and team assignments
• Assist in selection, on-boarding and on-going training for project management staff

Skills & Requirements

PREFERRED
• 5+ years of Digital Project Management experience in highly complex, enterprise environments (ideally at global level)
• Must possess proven experience leading large, multidisciplinary digital teams (websites, mobile web, and apps)
• Must possess experience directly managing single project budgets of at least $2M+ in labor
• Must possess proven mobile application delivery experience (iOS/Android) and SDLC Projects
• Must possess proven experience working with / for online retailer (e.g. eCommerce, marketing, merchandising, or operations)
• Must possess strong experience facilitating the gathering and development of requirements for complex solutions.
• Must possess very strong, current Agile delivery experience.

The following qualifications are required for consideration for this role:

• Direct management and accountability for single project budgets of $5-10M in labor
• Program accountability for program budgets of $11M+
• 7-10 years of relevant work experience in program and project management with an online retailer, ideally in eCommerce, marketing, merchandising, etc. Consulting experience is a plus
• Strong leader and decision maker with at least 4 years of experience in leading large, multidisciplinary digital teams (preferably websites, mobile web, and apps)
• 2-5 years Agile delivery experience
• Strong experience gathering and developing requirements
• 1-2 years mobile application (iOS, Android) delivery experience
• Minimum 3 years of client management experience in successfully delivering internet solutions, preferably in a global client-service organization
• Experience in a matrixed responsibility organization working with multiple Product Managers per effort

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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