Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Target is a retail organization whose Enterprise Services team supports critical functions such as procurement, financial operations, service center operations, and shared services. The Lead Program Manager will lead strategic programs and initiatives by translating them into charters, roadmaps, and project plans, while coordinating stakeholders, governance, risk management, prioritization, and decision-making across complex cross-functional efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead program and initiative translation into charters, road mapping and project planning while ensuring connections back to objectives and key results (OKRs), including cross dependencies and visibility to conflicting priorities and tradeoffs
- Partner across S&E, inclusive of portfolio, product, data analytics, change management and communications, as well as across TES and the enterprise to manage key stakeholders and create shared direction and clear accountabilities
- Establish program management practices including cross functional and leader routines that improve prioritization, planning, risk mitigation, visibility and decision-making for complex, cross functional initiatives
- Leverage program management professional practices, frameworks and tools. Foster consistency, clarity, and rigor in program expectations, processes, analyses, and problem solving
- Promote a strong, trusting, positive and connected team culture
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Strategy, Program Management or a related field
- 4+ years of experience in strategy implementation, large-scale enterprise initiatives and transformation projects, or relevant experience
- Experience managing ambiguous, complex, strategic work at varying levels of details and time horizons
- Experience with program management execution, inclusive of developing and running governance routines, driving risk and decision management, and ability to ensure accountability across leaders and business partners
- Excellent relationship management, ensuing strong working relationships with cross functional teams and leaders while influencing and supporting change management
- Strong facilitation, problem-solving, synthesizing, and driving to solutions, including influencing without authority
- Strong resilience, curiosity and flexibility to work through conflict, setbacks and competing priorities
- Excellent written, oral, communication, networking, and presentation skills, including ability to distill complex topics into clear storytelling and executive updates
Benefits
- Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more.
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
- Remote or Hybrid (Flex for Your Day) work arrangement
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