This position is part of the Enterprise PMO responsible to provide project and program management for key strategic and operational initiatives at 7-Eleven involving cross functional teams and budgets up to $10MM+.  The project manager is responsible to develop and execute PMO projects to ensure cross functional alignment, drive and manage the teams to meet strict deadlines and achieve financial goals. Responsibilities include financial and project governance, project execution excellence and reducing risks for SEI leveraging project management principles and tools. 

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensures that program scope and business objectives are clearly documented and agreed to for complex, cross-functional projects.
• Identify and organize the appropriate cross-functional teams to achieve project goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop detailed project plans, identifying the proper work streams owners and cross-work stream dependencies.  Coach teams to ensure the project team works together efficiently and effectively.
• Work collaboratively with business owners to define initial budget and resources required.  Manage and analyze on-going financials to ensure project is tracking to budget.
• Understand the details of the project plan to effectively manage the dependencies and adjust plans as necessary. Drive accountability and project progress according to the aligned-on project plan. 
• Identify and document project risks and issues, escalating when appropriate and developing mitigation strategies to minimize project impacts.
• Through regular cadence of reporting, ensure visibility and transparency on project progress milestones, financial governance, issues and risks.
• Focus on driving results, finding cost saving opportunities and efficiencies in the project life cycle while leveraging project best practices.
• Ability to effectively facilitate and lead meetings of varying size and purpose

In addition to the skills above, the Project Manager needs to be proficient and demonstrate the following leadership competencies:

• Ability to effectively build relationships to influence stakeholders and teams through indirect leadership, working across organizational lines and varying levels of the organization, including VP/SVP level.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate key project points and adjust communications as needed based on audience, making the complex simple to understand.
• Develop an understanding of company vision, strategy, and key initiatives.  Achieve detailed understanding of functional area of the project and related processes to be able to challenge assumptions and thinking and provide thought leadership.
• Ability to solve problems by assessing the situation, leveraging data where applicable, identifying root cause and developing potential solutions.
• Ability to operate in environments with ambiguity and ability create clarity.
• High level of agility and adaptability; ability to quickly learn details of new business functions and operate in various project methodologies
• Identify dependencies and impacts of project changes across other key initiatives
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO processes and maturity
• Manage collaboration and communication with other teams, both internal and external, to ensure teams have what they need and can work efficiently.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Education: Bachelors/4-Yr Degree, MBA/Master’s preferred
• Experience: 5-10 years’ experience leading teams and/or projects, setting strategic direction and execution plans, Program Management and project governance.
• Familiarity with project governance and PMP ideologies. PMP not required but preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and process improvement viewpoint.
• Strong Word/Excel/PowerPoint skills mandatory.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills required.
• Effectively interact & influence internal & external stakeholders at all levels.