Project Manager - Pmo

• Who we are

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.

• How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

• Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
• Be Courageous with Your Point of View
• Act Like an Entrepreneur
• Be Customer Obsessed
• Challenge the Status Quo
• Be Accountable
• Do the Right Thing

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

• About This Opportunity

General Description

This position is part of the Enterprise PMO responsible to provide project 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:

• Focus on driving results, finding cost savings opportunities and efficiencies in the project life cycle while leveraging project best practices.
• 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 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.
• Identify and document project risks and issues, escalating when appropriate and developing mitigation strategies to minimize project impacts.
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings of varying size and purpose.
• Ensures that program scope and business objectives are clearly documented and agreed to for complex, cross-functional projects.
• Work collaboratively with business owners to define the initial budget and resources required. Manage and analyze on-going financials to ensure the project is tracking to budget.
• Through regular cadence of reporting, ensure visibility and transparency on project progress milestones, financial governance, issues, and risks.

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

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

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