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 managers are responsible for the success of one or more projects within a given timeline and budget, creation and maintenance of project plans and status reports, proactively managing issues and risks and key design decisions, 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: 

80% Delivery & Execution - Establishes and executes effective communications with Project Stakeholders; 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 & mitigation. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives; Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for a project of group of initiatives; Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within Technology organization; Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies for projects, then proactively identifies risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans; supports stakeholders through quarterly portfolio planning processes for prioritized project initiatives.    

10% Testing and Deployment – Assist teams in planning testing requirements for software delivery. Support teams in developing pilot and deployment plans and post deployment support requirements.  

10% Resource & 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. Work with leadership to identify resourcing estimates for yearly budgets. (SPP)  

 
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This Position typically reports to Manager of Delivery ManagementThis Position has 0 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:

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite products including ExcelWorking knowledge of Smartsheets, Miro, and Atlassian products (Confluence, Jira, Jira Align). Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teamsAbility to draw accurate conclusions from financial information, Team KPIs and OKRs. Demonstrated project management skills in a complex development environment with matrixed product and engineering partners at multiple leadership levels. Excellent written and verbal communication skillsExperience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategiesExperience with project management execution in a modern software environment; experience managing technical projects.

Minimum Education:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

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:

Manages AmbiguityCollaboratesOptimizes Work ProcessesPlans and AlignsCommunicates EffectivelyDrives ResultsFinancial Acumen