Loblaw Companies

Senior Manager, Technical Program Management

Loblaw Companies$160K — $168K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience managing high-volume, complex, consumer-facing eCommerce initiatives
  • Strong technical ability with proven leadership in technical program management
  • Superior inter-personal skills for driving and leading cross-functional teams
  • Experience in team leadership fostering collaboration
  • Strategic thinker able to operate in fast-paced environments
  • Excellent understanding of web and mobile technologies in eCommerce
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of technical program managers to enhance operational efficiencies
  • Collaborate with product, technology, and business leads to ensure strategic alignment and accountability
  • Drive a portfolio of technical projects with an emphasis on stakeholder communication
  • Define and communicate strategic processes and initiatives across business areas
  • Identify and manage portfolio dependencies while communicating risks
  • Act as a liaison to clarify business needs and prioritize technology requirements
  • Promote and embody the Loblaw Digital culture within the team and organization

Benefits

  • Inclusive and diverse work environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to innovative projects in eCommerce technology
  • Collaborative and creative team culture
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technology and methodologies
Full Job Description
Why is this role important?

The Impact you'll make -

Our Senior Manager, Technical Project Management (TPM) position is a people-leader role that influences how we operate at Loblaw Digital; responsible for not only ensuring that eCommerce Technology portfolios are delivered on-plan, but also ensuring collaboration and enablement amongst our cross-functional teams. Our network of team members are deployed across all of our businesses, and strategically placed throughout our shared capabilities...we operate as a unit with a vision focused on: bridging functions by making connections, inspiring transparency, communicating facts clearly, and enabling solution-forward ideas collaboratively.

As a Senior Manager, TPM you will manage a technical portfolio of eCommerce programs that span across multi-disciplinary teams (both internal at Loblaw Digital and externally with the broader enterprise). You will create and track detailed program plans, manage and resolve issues and risks, manage teams directly and indirectly, and communicate status and priorities through succinct updates. Candidates should have extensive experience managing and launching large-scale technology programs and be comfortable with business case analysis, business process documentation, requirements gathering, and project management. The intent of this role is to bring further structure and efficiency to the function, as well as support the broader business portfolios with a focus on ensuring consistency in delivery excellence across business and technical initiatives. This role will be a mix of both tactical and strategic technical program management, as well as people management, stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration.

What you'll do -
• Lead a team of empowered technical program managers helping to create efficiencies, ensure strategic alignment, and manage enablement with broader cross-functional teams
• Partner with product, technology, and business leads to drive business objectives through plan accountability and support planning against annual roadmaps, budgets, and end-to-end delivery plans
• Drive a portfolio of technical projects/initiatives while fostering relationship management, stakeholder communication, and management of cross team dependencies
• Define strategic processes and planning for initiatives by summarizing, communicating, and aligning on inputs from media and eCommerce business areas and other partners as required
• Identify portfolio dependencies and solutions - work with all business and technology partners to identify dependencies, communicate impacts if delivery dates are trending risk, and proactively consider solution management
• Serve as a trusted liaison for the business and proactively clarify and prioritize business ideas, needs, and challenge-areas that require technology enablement
• Embody the Loblaw Digital culture with both your team, the functional practice, and within the broader business

What you'll need -
• 8+ years of experience managing high-volume, complex, consumer facing eCommerce initiatives
• Strong technical ability, technical program management experience, and proven leadership/collaboration required in order to be set up for success
• Superior inter-personal skills including ability to drive and lead cross-functional environments and communicate with both peers and senior stakeholders
• Experience leading a team, and fostering collaboration with team-driven mentality
• Forward, proactive, and a strategic thinker with the ability to think outside of the box; ability to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Excellent understanding of web and mobile technologies especially as it relates to eCommerce
• Experience communicating technical constructs and concepts to non-technical stakeholders with the ability to make trade-offs/recommendations to balance business v. technology needs
• Exposure to modern DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc.; experience managing programs in cloud environments an asset (ie. GCP)
• Excellent understanding of the Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Exceptional program and time management skills with demonstrated ability to drive accountability through clear action and ownership
• Collaborative partner and strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent understanding of the retail industry as it relates to eCommerce
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science required, advanced degree strongly preferred

Note: The pay range for this position is between $160,000 - $168,000 annually.


How You'll Succeed:

At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

We're able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce.

If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we'll get along just fine.

Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.

Apply today.

Employment Type:
Full time

Type of Role:
Regular

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About Loblaw Companies

Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian food retailer that encompasses 22 brands, including Loblaws, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore, and Shoppers Drug Mart. The company was founded in 1919 by Theodore Loblaw and J. Milton Cork. Loblaw Companies Limited is the largest food retailer in Canada, with over 1,050 corporate and franchised stores across the country. The company also operates a loyalty program called PC Optimum, which allows customers to earn points on purchases that can be redeemed for discounts on future purchases.
Learn more about Loblaw Companies
Size
215,000 employees
Industry
NASDAQ

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