Technical Project Management Consultant

Albertsons Companies is reimagining the grocery experience through a digital and customer experience transformation. The DAM Administrator will oversee daily and business-as-usual (BAU) administrative operations of our new digital asset management (DAM) platform. S/he will be responsible for onboarding new users; creating user accounts; updating/maintaining metadata schemas; onboarding new business units into the DAM and building folder repositories to specifications; overseeing and maintaining automated workflow queues; and reporting on system/platform usage metrics and uptime. This role will also serve as initial points of contact for system/platform troubleshooting and user support.

The right candidate will be able to interface with different internal and external business units; able to engage and escalate to Engineering when needed; understand basic business requirements, needs, and urgency; uphold and enforce platform standards and conventions; and act as liaison to business stakeholders and librarians. This position requires prior experience managing digital asset management platforms; familiarity with managing digital media content and metadata; and a background in digital operations. We are excited to announce an opening for Technical Project Management at ACI. Please find below the details of the role and its responsibilities.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and sustains links between business requirements and technology production while articulating requirements and controls expectations of both business and technical clients.

IT Project Planning and Organisation:

• Does project planning, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning and risk assessment for IT projects that span disciplines, geographic areas and business cultures.
• Adopts existing Project Management best practices, including the proficient use of industry-standard tools, technologies, and methodologies.
• Manages multiple projects at any given time.
• Well-organised, detail-oriented, has great communication skills and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

IT Project Control and Reporting:

• Designs reporting formats for project reporting to managerial, technical and business stakeholders.
• Reconciles multiple project progress reports with department budgets.
• Applies the principles of Earned Value Analysis across multiple IT projects.
• Brings awareness to overdue or troubled IT projects and assists in imposing controls.

Application Delivery Process:

• Designs relevant documentation, standards, policies and practices to ensure phase and task dependencies and considerations.
• Supervises the full spectrum of delivery activities on multiple development projects.
• Explains the relative criticality, risk and potential reward of each and all major tasks.

Product and Vendor Evaluation:

• Executes review and approval processes and procedures.
• Produces written recommendation detailing candidates, benefits and drawbacks.
• Assists in the evaluation of overall aspects of products and services functionality, performance, etc.
• Assists in the evaluation of overall considerations, including risk, and provides recommendations, including considerations for situations when an exception to policy, procedure or standard may be warranted.

Requirements:

• Skills Required: IT Project Management, Project Management, Project Delivery, Release Management, Oracle PPM, Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence, SAFe, Agile, Scrum.
• Experience Range: 9 - 12 years.
• 9+ years of Project Management experience, with an Application Development or Technical Project Management background and proven record delivering multiple concurrent technology solutions.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification a plus; MBA a plus.
• Expert-level skills in project planning, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning and risk assessment.
• Project Management experience in technical Application Development.
• Strong knowledge of Project Management Methodology and Tools (e. g., MS Project, Visio, Agile, SDLC, etc. ) with a strong knowledge of Project Management Disciplines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong expectation management, influencing and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong ability to collaborate across various groups, build relationships and manage effectively in a matrix organisation.
• Strong ability to motivate teams and coach and train business system analysts and lower-level project managers.
• In-depth advanced knowledge of process evaluation and selection of products, tools, services and infrastructure components in line with an organisation's business needs and architectural principles.
• Strong ability to mentor, develop and train other Technical Program Specialists.
• Strong expertise in Jira, Confluence and ability to build reports in Jira.
• Self-motivated person who takes initiative and can work independently of daily direction.
• Ability to provide consultative know-how to Senior Management, IT, Stakeholders and Business Groups on project management.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities.
• Retail Domain experience is a big plus.

Competencies:

• Compassionate and kind, showing courtesy, dignity, and respect. They show sincere interest and empathy for all others.
• Foster innovation through creativity to get to a workable solution. Use analytical thinking through issues using logic and reason.
• Show integrity in what is done and how it is done - without sacrificing personal/business ethics.
• Embrace an inclusion-focused mindset, seeking input from others on their work and encouraging the open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.
• Team-oriented, positively contributing to team morale and willing to help.
• Learning-Focused, finding ways to improve in their field and using positive constructive feedback to grow personally and professionally.
• Think strategically and proactively anticipate future problems, needs or changes in the work.

Skills Required:

• Extensive experience in Agile methodologies and program/project lifecycle management.
• Strong leadership, team management and communication skills.
• Project management tools (e. g., Oracle PPM, Microsoft Project, JIRA, Confluence).
• Ability to manage budgets, timelines, and resources effectively.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making and risk management abilities.
• Stakeholder and cross-functional dependency management.
• Technical background in software development, systems architecture, or related fields.
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC), CI/CD processes and DevOps practices.
• Extensive experience in using Jira and Confluence; use Jira Query Language to build reports for measuring/managing the team's performance.
• Retail Domain Experience.

Additional Skills Required:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or similar certification.
• Lean, Six Sigma or SAFe methodologies.
• Change management principles.
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e. g., Azure, GCP).
• Understanding of business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Skills in conflict resolution and negotiation.
• Familiarity with data analysis and reporting tools (e. g., SQL, Python).
• Knowledge of industry-specific regulations and standards.
• Product Owner.
• Scrum Master Certification.
• Azure or Google Cloud Experience.