Senior Business Project Lead: Cross-Functional Programs

Lowe's Companies, Inc.; Mooresville (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lowe's Companies, Inc. in Mooresville, NC is seeking a senior Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large business projects within the PMO framework. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, drive schedules, budgets, and resources, and report progress to executives.

Collaborate across IT, Finance, Stores, and Digital to ensure alignment, manage risks, and achieve strategic objectives. Excellent communication and change-management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience managing operational, program, and/or project budgets.
• 6 years experience developing project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) / User Stories used to create project schedules and estimates
• 4 years leadership experience with direct report responsibility, comfortable managing teams with 5+ people. Expert in project life cycle methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.), stakeholder management, conflict resolution, executive communication (written, verbal, etc.)
• 6 years of experience in program and project management

Responsibilities

• Delivers multiple Business projects/programs of medium to large size that are highly complex from planning to minimum realization with full responsibility and accountability for the outcomes; includes organizing and tracking project details and communicating consistently with project stakeholders and personnel.
• Develops, analyzes, and manages all touch points of the project plan, including responsibility for scheduling, global resource forecasting, managing project financials, and providing input and justification for costs and budget impact.
• Owns the overall performance (timeline, budget, and resource utilization) of large projects against plan and works through the project team to implement adjustments when issues/risks are identified and require resolution.
• Partners with IT/Business for requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP) processes from 3rd parties.
• Drives the work for complex and large project teams by recommending or requesting resources to support project demands, communicating a clear vision of project goals and objectives, and providing technical knowledge and input for deliverables worked on by the team
• Holds project teams accountable for meeting or exceeding expectations by coordinating team activities and managing milestones and deliverables
• Controls and mitigates project risks/issues by performing the qualitative and quantitative analysis of scenarios and trigger events, planning responses, establishing contingency plans, anticipating dependencies affected by ongoing project changes, and recommending ways to mitigate future risks
• Manages and ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships with internal customers, third‑party vendors, and senior/executive management.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting on key metrics (i.e., deliverables, measures of success, financials, duration, benefits) and communicating findings to program managers and senior/executive management. Facilitates necessary executive governance processes (i.e., SteerCos)
• Owns the project execution plan (i.e., work breakdown structures) and business objectives (e.g., process design/re‑design, change management, deployment approach, management and end user readiness), partnering with IT and/or Functional teams to translate business plans into tactical action items.
• Participates in formal and informal training to continuously develop technical capabilities and project management skillset
• Ensures approved business cases exist for executive-sponsored programs. Manages risks, issues, decisions, and scope changes.
• Applies deep functional knowledge (e.g., business objectives, operating model, cross‑functional macro processes, etc.) in HR, IT, Finance, Stores, Pro, Supply Chain, Merchandising, and Digital to ensure the alignment, buy‑in, and support of diverse project stakeholders such as internal customers, third‑party vendors, and senior/executive management
• Partners with cross‑functional Business leaders to identify and manage program interdependencies.
• Provides leadership to the team by attracting and hiring talented individuals, setting goals and communicating clear expectations, providing timely and constructive feedback as well as meaningful developmental opportunities, managing performance, providing resources and support as needed, and sponsoring and leading team members through change
• Manages expenses for initiatives within scope of responsibility

Skills

Budgets

WBS/User Stories

Leadership (5+)

Waterfall/Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor degree

Job description

Lowe's Companies, Inc. in Mooresville, NC is seeking a senior Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of medium-to-large business projects within the PMO framework. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, drive schedules, budgets, and resources, and report progress to executives.

Collaborate across IT, Finance, Stores, and Digital to ensure alignment, manage risks, and achieve strategic objectives. Excellent communication and change-management skills are essential.