Sr. D&T Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully deliver desired outcomes for strategic project(s)/product teams, taking them from complex, ambiguous strategic intent to implemented, measurable outcomes.
• Lead, inspire, motivate, coach and energize the team to deliver results, managing team progress, timelines, cost and resources influencing highest-value deliverables are delivered.
• Lead the identification, management, and mitigation of highest risks, especially those related to business risk or potential business disruption.
• Strong organizational and budget management skills demonstrating financial acumen, working in liaison with Finance, HR, business and other functions as required.
• Facilitate ceremonies (daily scrum, spring planning, sprint review and retrospective) and the ability to drive estimations.
• Own schedules, outline key milestones, traffic deliverables, identify risks and solutions, and deliver specific project artifacts.
• Demonstrate thought leadership, an agile mindset and values in daily work and organization to deliver short and long term business goals.
• Proven ability and experience in successfully managing a complex program or multiple projects and/or workstreams with a focus on the “big-picture” – anticipate and isolate patterns, identify gaps and catalyse resolutions employing prioritization for maximum outcome.
• Actively engage with a distributed, global project/portfolio management community to continuously evolve capabilities, re-imagine ways of working and deliver the overall portfolio in line with stated business outcomes.
• Influence both Digital & Technology and Business plans to address and resolve risks – provide an effective and efficient bridge to ensure teams are able to collaborate and deliver.
• Effectively communicate project status, risks and issues, and escalate for resolution when appropriate. Tailor the message appropriately to all levels of project leadership.
• Effectively partner & collaborate with 3rd Party Vendors, representing General Mills priorities, providing strong governance and managing risk from such deliveries.
• Provide clear guidance and direction to team members, laddering work to the project, function, and corporate strategy. Guide and coach the team on PM/Agile practices.
• Build and maintain trusted, collaborative working relationships with project team members (including global & remote employees and teams of any size and membership), leadership, stakeholders, and sponsors.
• Strong partnership with the business with ability to seamlessly connect between Digital & Tech and Business teams.
• Build standards and best practices to advance the Project Management team.
• Provide mentorship, modelling, and coaches to others
• Experiment and prepare for emerging trends and industry shifts. Develop self and others with understanding of emerging trends.
• Willingness to undertake projects with globally distributed teams, with flexible hours across multiple timezones.

Qualification & Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 15+ years work experience, with 8+ years of Project Management experience across traditional and agile based projects.
• Demonstrable experience of working with and adapting to diverse Project Management methodologies, processes, workflows, and terminology including demonstration of effective scope, timeline, budget and risk management.
• Expert in project and process management having contributed to evolution and implementation of best practices across both agile and traditional project management.
• Demonstrated drive to successfully deliver high impact, high value project/product outcomes within project constraints and guidelines on a wide variety of projects including Technology implementations, Strategic initiatives, Portfolio Shaping and Transition Services.
• Proven ability and experience in successfully managing multiple, complex projects simultaneously.
• Consumer First (client focused) mindset: proven ability and experience in building and maintaining trusted and credible client relationships
• Excellent communication skills – ability to communicate with the team and various stakeholders (oral & written)
• Ability to adapt style and approach to unique needs of clients and team members
• Proven experience with early risk identification and mitigation, particularly those with strong business impact or potential for disruption.
• Adept at managing complexity under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to independently take on and ambitious and ambiguous initiatives and quickly drive clarity and high level and detailed plans to advance toward outcomes.
• Identify and solve for blockers and bottlenecks, make trade-offs to balance needs, and know when to escalate to keep the project moving forward.
• Ability to discern and ask insightful or difficult questions and maintain a multi-perspective approach while driving to appropriate and timely decisions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to tailor communication to any level of the organization including senior leaders
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex issues and concepts and articulate recommendations clearly and concisely
• Proven ability and experience in influencing and managing conflict at all levels of the organization including senior leaders.
• Ability to self-manage multiple, competing priorities and deliverables simultaneously.
• History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.
• Meticulous attention to detail, coupled with a proven ability to see the “big picture”.
• Knowledge and proficiency with MS Office and Project Management tools
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of managing techno-functional outcomes – ability to interface between Digital & Technology teams and Business teams.
• Business analysis skills
• Experience in consumer food industry considered a plus, especially in Supply Chain or Commercial functions.
• Working knowledge on DevOps, Agile development processes, exploration and POCs
• Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, complex and transforming environment.
• Candidate should be flexible, reliable, can take initiative, can deal with responsibility, and have a “can do” attitude.
• Familiarity with specific workflow tools such as Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Confluence, etc.
• Relevant certifications, such as PMP, SAFe, CSM

Benefits