Quick overview
Job description
Role: Program Manager
Location: Raleigh, NC (on-site)
Contract role
Job description:
Seeking an experienced IT Planning and Delivery Portfolio Manager to support the Store Technology portfolio.
This individual will lead execution across multiple strategic technology initiatives that support store operations, point-of-sale systems, fulfillment, delivery services, inventory capabilities, and retail technology modernization efforts.
The successful candidate will drive cross-functional coordination, dependency management, release readiness, executive reporting, risk management, and program execution across multiple product and engineering teams.
This role serves as a strategic delivery leader responsible for improving execution predictability, increasing organizational alignment, and ensuring successful delivery of initiatives that directly impact stores and customers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Drive planning and execution of large cross-functional technology initiatives.
- Coordinate efforts across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Operations, Support, Architecture, Security, and Business teams.
- Develop delivery plans, milestones, and execution strategies.
- Ensure alignment between business objectives and delivery commitments.
- Identify and manage dependencies across multiple teams and workstreams.
- Facilitate resolution of delivery risks, issues, and blockers.
- Drive accountability across internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordinate program activities across multiple products and platforms.
- Develop executive-level status reporting and delivery dashboards.
- Monitor initiative health, risks, milestones, and key performance indicators.
- Lead governance reviews, planning sessions, and leadership updates.
- Provide transparency into portfolio execution and readiness.
- Coordinate release planning and deployment activities.
- Facilitate operational readiness and go-live planning.
- Partner with Support and Operations teams to ensure successful rollout and adoption.
- Support post-deployment stabilization and hypercare activities.
- Coordinate delivery efforts involving third-party technology providers.
- Monitor partner commitments and delivery performance.
- Ensure vendor deliverables remain aligned with overall program objectives.
Qualifications
Required
- 8+ years of experience in Program Management, Delivery Management, Technical Program Management, Portfolio Management, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale technology initiatives.
- Demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional programs.
- Strong experience with Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Experience managing project schedules, dependencies, risks, and executive communications.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience influencing decisions across organizations without direct authority.
- Expertise with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, ServiceNow and delivery reporting tools.
Preferred
- Experience supporting retail technology, store systems, POS, supply chain, logistics, fulfillment, or customer-facing platforms.
- Experience coordinating multiple Agile teams within a shared initiative.
- Experience supporting large-scale technology transformation efforts.
- Familiarity with operational readiness and production release processes.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum Alliance, or similar certifications preferred.
- Experience working within product-centric organizations.
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