IT Project Manager - Director Project Manager

About the role

• The selected candidate will manage complex software development, infrastructure, and integration projects in a fast paced, constantly changing dynamic environment
• Responsible for effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, coordinating, controlling, managing and delivering all activities for projects and related release initiatives
• Oversee the day-to-day progress of project(s) and release initiatives with regard to time, budget, scope and quality
• Apply proven project management techniques, methods and tools
• Provide leadership, direction and facilitate integration activities with other Gap Inc IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support
• Monitor and report to IT management on the status of project efforts (including status reporting, budget tracking, monthly forecasting)
• Partner with Application Delivery to ensure that systems are developed to comply with architectural and testing standards and established methodologies
• Aggressively manage risk and issues; and mitigation efforts as appropriate
• Use innovative problem solving and critical thinking approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across technologies
• Encourage de-centralized decision-making within teams, but acts as escalation point when consensus decisions cannot be reached
• Provide status reports, presentations and demonstrations to all levels of management both within IT and business partner groups
• Develop, attract and retain world class IT project management professionals
• Champion best practices, standards, quality, consistency and continuous process improvement in project management
• Set PM productivity pace and ensure that requested work is matched to qualified and available project management resources that are effectively transitioned to new assignments
• Responsible for performance management of PM resources and ensures that resources are poised to successfully meet the objectives and goals of the division and develop and advance in professional project management competencies
• Act as a role model for PM professionalism, critical thinking and quality

Qualifications & Requirements

*Minimum 12 Years IT Experience

• Minimum 8 Years IT Project Management Experience
• Minimum 2 Years Agile experience
• BA/BS
• MBA a plus
• Agile certification a plus
• PMI Certification a plus
• Experience overseeing budgets of at least $5 million
• Experience overseeing project teams with at least 25 FTEs
• Experience overseeing and developing project management resources and teams
• Open to changing business conditions, technology and system changes
• Demonstrated hands-on experience and expertise; and comprehensive knowledge and understanding of software development, testing, change and project management methodologies, concepts, practices, procedures and standards
• Demonstrated passion for project management and track record of delivering business value through successful project management, implementation, support and PM transformation
• Demonstrated ability to ensure success on all projects through proven track record of applying proven methods and tools to enterprise-wide project implementations
• Demonstrated ability to build constructive business relationships and gain the trust of others
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, mitigate, and resolve conflicts across workgroups.
• Experience in developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints
• Excellent written and verbal communication as well as negotiating skills
• Excellent coaching, team building and group facilitation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including analytical, problem solving, organizational, issue resolution, and customer relationship management
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and manage business partners and external vendors