Sr Advisor-Program Manager

FedEx Freight, Inc.; Southwind (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Freight, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee seeks a seasoned project/program manager to lead small and medium programs from planning through execution. This role requires coordinating cross-functional teams and delivering measurable outcomes.

You will translate complex data into clear decisions, manage stakeholder expectations, and advocate continuous improvement in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.

Qualifications

• Seven (7) years' experience in project/program management, product development, systems design/development or business/financial planning and analysis.
• Ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner
• Experience in planning major projects including development of project proposals, business cases, schedules and financial justification.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
• Must be able to communicate with customers effectively and present ideas and solutions in a user language.

Responsibilities

• Support efforts to provide technical expertise for planning, developing, organizing, and coordinating small and medium programs.
• Evaluate new technologies, methodologies, processes, and products to drive improvements.
• Collect, analyze, and forecast financial and performance indicators.
• Lead projects and partner with multiple departments to align on priorities and timelines.
• Communicate updates and tradeoffs to large audiences through meetings or docs.

Skills

Project management

Portfolio management

Agile/SDLC

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field

Tools

MS Project

JIRA

Job description

This position will be domiciled at a FedEx Freight location in Memphis, Tennessee. You will be required to work at a FedEx Freight location several times per week.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Supports efforts to provide technical expertise and support for planning, developing, organizing, and coordinating small and medium programs/projects. Research evaluates and recommends new technologies, methodologies, processes, and products to achieve innovative improvements. Collects, analyzes, and produces financial and performance indicators and forecasts.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ability to manage competing demands while maintaining out of the box thinking.
• Knowledge in agile product development life cycle (PDLC) and/or software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies with some experience leading projects.
• Product launch from "0 to 1" optimizing it for "1 to many" in your portfolio.
• Focus on scale with the flexibility to adapt in a constantly evolving environment.
• Experienced in partnering with and bringing multiple departments into alignment.
• Able to communicate complex data in a simple format to share decisions, process updates and tradeoffs to large audiences (i.e. in-person meetings, asynchronous meetings, email, and/or shared live docs).
• Process-driven with a bias toward action. Bonus points for experience within high-growth tech startup.
• Solution based thinking with the ability to break down complex concepts into understandable, smaller and sequential deliverables
• Influencing skills to guide stakeholders to understand vision, resources, priorities, and definition of completion/release.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Disclaimer:

This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• Seven (7) years' experience in project/program management, product development, systems design/development or business/financial planning and analysis.,
• Ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner
• Experience in the use of project management/planning software
• Experience in planning major projects including development of project proposals, business cases, schedules and financial justification.
• Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
• Must be able to communicate with customers effectively and present ideas and solutions in a user language.

JOB CONDITIONS:

• Some travel required

PREFERRED SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

• Experience working with enterprise level contracts
• Experience leading technical projects including software and hardware initiatives in a datacenter context
• PMP or equivalent certification

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