Project Manager - Senior

Potential to extend

• Fully remote

• Will travel be required? Potentially at some point during the project

• Contract to perm talent only

Major Duties / Responsibilities

• Accountable for completing the delivery of a large, multi-year global project to migrate users from the current corporate voice system to a Microsoft Teams cloud-based solution.

• Scope includes ~65 supply chain and data center locations with 10K users. Activities include user enablement, physical phone deployment and the full decommission of the legacy voice system

• Responsible for partnering with the 3rd party implementation vendor to develop and execute the project plan, work breakdown structure, and identified critical path.

• Coordinate with a 3rd party implementation vendor to deliver tasks and milestones, utilizing resources across both vendor and TJX

• Holds the 3rd party implementation vendor accountable for deliverables and timelines

• Effectively partners and influences with stakeholders and dependent teams

• Leads project and/or program activities and reports on status to ensure the project is completed on time, within approved budget, and provides desired business value.

• Directs and oversees project and/or program team (does not directly manage people).

• Defines project quality and success criteria

• Supervises multiple, concurrent tasks and properly assesses priorities of assigned activities.

• Responsible for timely and effective project communications including stakeholder and sponsor interactions, meeting management, and reporting

• Manages project change control process with project sponsors ensuring any requested changes to scope are reviewed to assess impact on schedule, cost and resources

• Creates strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning

• Prepares materials for project steering committee meetings

• Prepares and presents materials for weekly project leadership meetings.

• Recommends solution approach to projects and/or programs during initialization.

• Prepares and presents key decisions for presentation to leadership

• Makes decisions and recommendations on resource requirements, project schedules, solution options, and project budgets.

• Makes decisions on escalated issues, and further escalates issues as needed

• Accountable for managing within established project financials, and projecting deployment activities to establish the forecasted spend by month.

• Assigns and monitors tasks for project resources

Skills/Knowledge: (All Requirements)

• 8+ years as a Project Manager

• Ability to work collaboratively with large, global teams and apply problem solving, critical thinking skills to complex, multi-million dollar issues

• Exceptional organizational skills

• Exceptional partnering skills across IT, business, and IT providers

• Ability to summarize large complex projects into manageable format for Executive level reporting on progress.

• Advanced persuasion and negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders

• Excellent ability to multi-task and alter direction easily to accommodate changing priorities. Ability to lead others through this ambiguity.

• Ability to assess project health at defined stage gates. Provide critical analysis and recommendations.

• Excellent knowledge of system development life cycle methodology and variety of project management techniques

• Expertise in managing projects through multiple different methodologies (agile, waterfall etc)

• Advanced understanding of multiple IT infrastructure components (Network, App Hosting, End User Services, App Management)

• Experience with MS office suite, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Teams

• Experience in a retail company, including supply chain solution delivery OR Prior experience migrating voice capabilities to a Microsoft Teams based solution experience (one of either is required; would prefer both)

Experience/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred

• PMP and or Prince2 preferred

Required Skills :
Project Management

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :
Agile Coach

This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check :
No

Drug Screen :
No