Finance Change Excellence Project Manager (Remote)

Position Purpose

The Home Depot is able to offer virtual employment of this position in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

The Home Depot ("THD") is redefining the future of retail. As a Fortune 50 company and the largest home improvement retailer, we are one of the world's most innovative companies and are on a mission to meld our 2,200+ stores, 450k+ associates, dozens of unique services, and award-winning website to enable "doers" of all types, whatever the job is at hand. The Finance Change Excellence Project Manager has a critical role in driving the Finance workstream for broad strategic business initiatives. This role will be responsible for successfully delivering the Finance workstream with an end-to-end view of projects. The project manager will be responsible for clearly defining project goals and benefits, managing project scope, delivering on-time benefits to the organization, and ensuring Finance readiness. The Manager will be expected to drive a highly matrixed team and leverage strong solution design and project management skills to deliver timely project benefits. Strong communication (both verbal and written) and teaming skills will be required to succeed.

Key Responsibilities

• 30% PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates/presents project review documents to senior leadership. Collects and documents project issues and manages their timely resolution
• 10% PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.
• 10% PROJECT ENVIRONMENT - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.
• 40% PROJECT CONTROL - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented. Maintains project logs of all submitted changes and their status.
• 10% PROJECT LESSONS LEARNED - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Managers. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Position reports to Finance Sr. Manager
• No direct reports

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solution design (process & systems) experience.
• Data collection, analysis and decision making experience.
• Process Mapping and workplanning experience.
• Logistics and supply chain experience
• Demonstrated Full Lifecycle Project Management experience.
• Mastery of Smartsheets
• Mastery of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Visio, Project applications.
• Ability to resolve conflict and manage through challenging situations

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 3

Competencies:

• *Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
• Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.