Staples · 2 days ago
Senior Program Manager
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Responsibilities
Delivers multiple business projects/programs 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.
Clearly defining and documenting requirements across teams ensuring the feasibility/ cost to deliver and the value to the customer and business.
Drives the work for complex and large project teams by recommending or requesting resources to support project demands, communicates a clear vision of project goals and objectives, and provides technical knowledge and input for deliverables worked on by the team
Ensures approved business cases exist for executive sponsored programs and defining a program's approach, scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions and deliverables of large projects against plan and works through the project team to implement adjustments when issues/risks are identified and require resolution.
Partners with Product/Engineering/Business for requests for information (RFI) and requests for proposal (RFP) processes from 3rd parties.
Ensuring third party vendors are aligned to the program approach and can support the timelines and deliverables.
Responsible for tracking and reporting on key metrics (i.e., deliverables, measures of success, financials, duration, benefits) and communicating findings 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 Engineering 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
Applies deep functional knowledge (e.g. business objectives, operating model, cross-functional macro processes, etc.) in Marketing, Engineering, Finance, Merchandising, Pricing, Supply Chain 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
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
6+ years of experience in program and project management
Expert in project life cycle methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.), stakeholder management, conflict resolution, executive level communication (written, verbal, etc.)
Experience managing operational, program, and/or project financial budgets
Expert in leading project teams and understanding and application of Continuous Improvement methodologies
Comprehensive knowledge across e-commerce and digital ecosystems
Ability to handle complex issues and problems and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff
Ability to foster teamwork and management skills
Oral and written communication skills
Ability to build collaborative relationships
Problem-solving, analytical thinking, technical, and technical skills
Company
Staples
Staples is a provider of workspace products such as furniture, technology, cleaning products, and traditional office supplies.
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (111)
2022 (165)
2021 (122)
2020 (175)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2017-06-28Acquired· by Sycamore Partners ($6.9B)
1999-11-15Post Ipo Equity· Undisclosed
1989-05-05IPO· nasdaq:SPLS
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