Sr. Systems Specialist (Sr. Program Manager)

Summary: We are looking for an experienced Sr. Program Manager who is passionate to join, participate and contribute to AutoZone's Merchandising innovation team on a mission to enable AutoZone’s multiyear Retail transformation initiatives. This position will provide strategic guidance to our Retail initiatives, manage the sequencing and execute within the budget and timelines by following our company policies and culture. Apart from excelling at scope/budget/schedule management and stakeholder communications, we expect our PMs to collaborate and work efficiently with our several internal IT and business teams on their day-to-day duties as their work greatly impacts lot of internal teams/projects. This position directly reports to eCommerce delivery director with lot of visibility on their work and contributions across the organization. We are looking for ideal candidates with 8 to 10 years of project management experience working with multi-cultural, multi-regional cross functional teams. Greater than 5 years of experience but the right background will be considered for strong candidates The candidate should be able to lead efficient strategies and tactics during our transformation, provide outstanding leadership ability to implement new processes, standards and governance, to follow best practices and standards set-up within the organization. Responsibilities: Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and deliver projects and programs Decide on suitable strategies and objectives for the project Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects Defining the program governance (controls) Lead the team toward delivering our customer’s solution in time and within budget Lead daily/weekly stand-ups and meetings Lead, evaluate and help other project managers in the team Develop, manage and control deadlines, budgets, and scope Apply change risk and resource management techniques as needed Assume responsibility for the programs team and vendors Manage and communicate Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies in a timely manner during the execution of the projects Coordinating the projects and their interdependencies and activities Managing and utilizing resources across projects Managing stakeholders’ communications Managing the main program documentation such as the program initiation document, project closing documents, monthly financial forecasts, weekly financial summaries, weekly status reports etc. Work with AutoZone PMO group defined policies/procedures and execute the same during each phase of the projects. Ability to work unsupervised, with little management oversight Capture KPIs and effectively communicate to stakeholders Background managing Vendor relationships with Staff augmentation, implementation partner and SaaS solution providers is expected/ desired Agile experience is highly desired Typically reports to IT Manager but sometimes may report to IT Director. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in management or a relevant field; Experience in retail industry will be preferable. Familiarity with one or more of merchandising, supply chain or digital will be a plus. 5 to 10 years’ experience in project management experience Requires proven experience as a Program Manager or other managerial position Excellent organizational, communication, management and leadership skills Excellent Knowledge of performance evaluation and change management principles Excellent knowledge of MS Office, working knowledge of program/project management software (Basecamp, MS Project, etc.) Experience with budget, scope and schedule management Readiness to work with multi-cultural, cross geographical teams Excellent problem-solving ability, relevant domain an analytical skill. Outstanding grasp of IT concepts, processes, and web standards Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques Vendor management experience as outlined in responsibilities with specific experience on Day-to-day Vendor liaison Change control management Process invoices