Position Summary...

The Manager, Project Management oversees critical projects, ensuring timely, within-scope, and on-budget completion through collaboration, strategic thought leadership, and influence. This role supports diverse functions, drives business results, and navigates complex organizational structures. This role requires skills in project management, business analysis, and communications, as well as a continuous improvement mindset to deliver expected results in a fast-paced environment.

The Manager, Project Management is responsible for driving the execution of critical projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and communicating business plans and priorities, and maintaining detailed task-based project plans. This role involves removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, setting performance standards, measuring progress, adjusting performance accordingly, and developing contingency plans.

What you'll do...

The manager also defines and assists in building project charters and objectives for key projects or initiatives. Utilizing standard processes, tools, and templates, the Manager manages and controls systems and process changes, including project scope, project plan, integrated milestone plan, risk management, change control, implementation plan, and project closure. Reporting the status of projects to key stakeholders and senior leadership is a critical function of this role.

Responsibilities

• The Manager, Project Management, is tasked with PMO development and execution. This includes building and developing governance processes to ensure key projects are executed effectively and holding cross-functional teams accountable for delivery.
• The manager forecasts, tracks and reports key metrics for the project portfolio, documenting and reporting on close-out results. The role also involves working with other team members managing projects to ensure high-quality project plans and budgets, securing necessary approvals, and overseeing the execution of project implementation, communication, and change management strategies.
• Educating teams and individual project members on the benefits of consistent tool and template use, driving governance, and ensuring project plan quality through validation and progress reviews are essential responsibilities.
• Support projects from start to finish and introduce a feasibility and cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as appropriate controls, during and after implementation of the project
• Collaborate with continuous improvement experts from other regions to achieve improvement goals within store operations focused on driving sales
• Support change management’s communications and development of training documentation to drive the change
• Generate added value through the principles of continuous improvement and integrate best practices in the distribution industry

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management (operations, logistics, supply chain), engineering or a related field (required)
• At least 5 years of experience having progressive responsibilities in the areas of store operations, distribution, logistics, or transportation, with a focus on Continuous Improvement
• Experience in the retail industry, within a large-scale national distributor, or a transportation/logistics service provider (an asset)
• Stakeholder management abilities: demonstrated ability to develop stakeholder relationships and build collaborative processes, as well as the ability to mobilize, coach, and drive accountability with peers and other functional leaders through influence
• Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; proactive nature and willingness to challenge existing processes and propose new solutions
• Data analytics skills: Ability to pull reporting data build business logic to quantify the impact and come up with the correct KPI’s to drive continuous improvement
• Project management skills: demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex transformation projects from inception to implementation; proven track record of successful system or logistics network implementations involving change management
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies
• Communication skills: demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely communicate with all levels of the organization and with every business unit to persuade and lead others in challenge

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Minimum Qualifications...

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Preferred Qualifications...

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Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada

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