Sr. Technology PM - Supply Chain Technology

Welcome to Love's! We are looking for a Senior Technology Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives from inception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business value and strategic goals for the Supply Chain organization. This role requires expertise in project management methodologies, stakeholder engagement, and emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). This individual will apply proven project management techniques relevant to the project and team performing them, whether that be in a “waterfall”, agile or hybrid approach.

As a senior level role, this person will also be responsible for coaching others in the practice of project management/scrum methodologies.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We do not provide sponsorship for employment visas now or in the future.

• Manage end-to-end lifecycle of supply chain & merchandising technology projects, from planning through deployment and post-implementation review

• Define project scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders and aligned with supply chain and business goals

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, budgets, and resource allocations

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget

• Assess and mitigate risks related to technology implementation

• Leverage project management tools (Azure Dev Ops, Aha!, MSProject, etc.) to document, track, and report on project progress and outcomes and facilitate overall planning

• Ability to manage multiple projects effectively and efficiently across teams, technologies and business areas

• Identify the best project management approach to use depending on the team and nature of the project

• Partner closely with solution implementation partners and determine how to adapt and consolidate methodologies to work with Love’s

• Oversee implementation of supply chain systems, data, and integration platforms

• Coordinate with external partners, technology, and supply chain teams to ensure seamless system integration and data flow

• Leverage AI to improve project management functions, reporting, and risk management

• Identify opportunities for improving project flow, documentation, and communication

• Implement hybrid and innovative approaches to delivering value throughout a project, bridging planning and execution at speed and scale

• Partner with supply chain leaders, subject matter experts, and technology teams to ensure alignment and adoption of technology solutions

• Communicate project status, risks, and benefits to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to earn their trust, confidence, and respect.

• Preparation and presentation of project status/progress reports to various audiences, focusing on appropriate content for the audience

• Effectively conduct meetings spanning multiple teams on complex matters

• Act as a mentor, coach, and facilitator to build self-organizing, high-performing project teams

• Proactively remove obstacles to ensure teams remain focused and productive

• Define clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, fostering accountability and ownership

• Guides the team in the setting of realistic objectives for delivery time frames and continually manages project expectations with team and stakeholder in a traditional waterfall approach, Kanban, or Agile/sprint delivery cycles

• For any agile project - facilitate scrum ceremonies – Sprint planning, grooming, daily stand-ups, sprint demo, retrospectives and feature planning. Maintain team capacity, burn-downs, key metrics and dashboard reporting

• For any waterfall project – facilitate necessary meetings, resource/capacity models and planning, maintain project plan in appropriate tool by relevant project phase, reporting and stakeholder communication

• Demonstrates continuous improvement and encourages other team members to do the same

• Continuously broadens capabilities to effectively apply Project Management /Agile techniques…