Senior IT Project Manager

HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot in the United States is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead delivery and budgeting across multiple marketing/advertising programs. You will scope, plan, and track projects, coordinating with cross-functional teams and partnering with senior leadership to ensure milestones are met and risks are mitigated.

The role requires 5+ years in marketing/program management, experience with CDP and cross-functional software development, and strong financial acumen.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience in marketing/advertising/retail media program management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and execution across multiple initiatives with effective planning and risk management.
• Oversee budgeting, labor forecasting, and vendor management to meet milestones.

Skills

Delivery management

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile methodologies

Financial acumen

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Microsoft Office

PowerPoint

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Senior Project Manager is an experienced project professional responsible for leading a combination of planning and execution of activities related to delivery of projects and/or financial/budgeting activity for their teams. When leading project delivery, Senior Project Leads will lead scoping, structuring, and coordination across multiple stakeholders. They are responsible for the success of one or more projects within a given timeline and budget, creation and maintenance of status reports, proactively managing issues and risks, and can work with 3rd-party partners. They are often in a lead role supporting coordination and execution across multiple areas. When performing financial/budgeting activities they monitor and adjust to given budgets, track labor, capital spend, and support variance root cause analysis.
The Senior Project Manager will have 5+ years of working in marketing/advertising program management role and experience managing cross-functional software development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• 80% Delivery & Execution - Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work Proactively identifies barriers to successful outcomes and partners with leadership teams to overcome. Brings problem solving, critical thinking skills; Deep experience in Agile, Waterfall, other delivery methodologies in order to identify and blend methods for efficient delivery Understanding of project plans and development. Support and execute against quarterly planning and prioritization Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives; Partners with stakeholders to lead the project planning effort, including scoping, definition of the project deliverables, creation of a logical work breakdown structure and definition of major project milestones across several initiatives or program; Ability to communicate at various levels of the organization (within the team/portfolio as well as with senior leadership), to a wide variety of audiences, both business and technical; Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for several projects, multiple initiatives, or program; Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, identify, and track compliance requirements, then proactively manage risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans; Develops and executes an effective plan for both change management and communicating project information to the Technology project team and stakeholders Able to execute across portfolios or cross-functional initiatives within Technology organization.
• 20% Resource & Financial Management - Executes and leads 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; 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.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This Position typically reports to Manager of Delivery Management.

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:

• 5+ years working in marketing/advertising/retail media program management role
• Experience with Customer Data Platform (CDP) implementations
• Experience managing cross- functional software development initiatives
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Working knowledge of Tableau
• Working knowledge of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Ability to convey complex or technical ideas and processes in easy-to-understand terms to diverse audiences
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Manages Ambiguity
• Collaborates
• Instills Trust
• Communicates Effectively
• Financial Acumen
• Organizational Savvy

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents: The pay range for this position is between $70,000.00 - $190,000.00