Senior Project Manager

Job Details:

The IT Team at Tyson Foods is building the technology of the future. We're transforming an 85-year-old company into the most modern food company in the world. We're developing technologies that are used in our offices, they're used in our plants, in our farms, they're used everywhere. We're building technologies that are changing the way this company works. Everything from machine learning to artificial intelligence to utilizing cutting edge tech like drones, that will help drive our business forward. At Tyson Foods we're driving world class technology to revolutionize a world class company.

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https://www.tysonfoods.com/technology-careers

The role of the Sr. Project Manager is to establish, implement, develop and control best practices for project management throughout the organization. This includes defining and documenting all policies and processes of project lifecycles in order to deliver these projects according to plan and within budget.

Essential Duties Responsibilities:

• Define how the scope goals and deliverables of projects should support business goals in collaboration with senior management

• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project lifecycle

• Effectively communicate and manage project expectations to project managers, owners, sponsors, team members and other stakeholders in a clear and concise fashion

• Provide tools to determine project timelines and milestones deliverables.

• Determine frequency and content of status reports from project managers analyze results and troubleshoot problem areas mitigate project risks

• Effectively manage project teams time and allocate resources to ensure deliverables are completed

• Where required negotiate with department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company

• Assess and approve disapprove need for additional staff or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary, during project s lifecycle

• Indirectly guide and manage project managers of all projects within the PMO portfolio

• Develop best practices techniques and tools for project planning execution project management ongoing milestone deliverable tracking communication and key performance metrics

• Communicate project management standards and techniques to the appropriate training staff

• Review budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary

• Track and monitor all project milestones and deliverables

• Identify and manage all project dependencies and critical path

• Accept and assess status report change requests and requirements documentation to ensure smooth project progression

• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify key successful and unsuccessful project elements

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise new project team leads team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for assigned work

• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within and between various project teams

Requirements:

Education: Bachelor's degree in the field of computer science, business administration or related field. Masters degree in one these fields preferred. Equivalent experience may be acceptable. PMP Certification required.

Experience:

• 8+ years direct work experience in a project management capacity including all aspects of process development and execution

• IT Program management experience required

• Strong familiarity with project management software such as Microsoft Project JIRA and Excel

• Experience in developing and deploying project best practices policies

Computer Skills: Advanced PC skills using Microsoft Office products and MS Project for schedule and resource capacity planning.

Communication Skills: Must exhibit strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to tailor messaging to the different levels of the organization.

Special Skills:

• Demonstrated success delivering numerous projects on time, meeting requirements and with high team satisfaction, including some complex projects and projects involving a number of project staff and users; experience implementing cloud-based IT solutions; demonstrated expertise utilizing multiple project methodologies, such as Agile.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.

• Ability to facilitate relations between business groups and technology departments.

• Solid leadership skills with ability to lead conversations and decisions with technical resources.

• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.

• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to read communication styles of project team leads, team members, and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines. Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.

• Ability to defuse tension among and between project teams, should it arise.

• Advanced interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

• Adept at conducting research into administrative and technical project-related issues.

• Must have a working knowledge of traditional and cloud infrastructure technologies.

Supervisory: None

Travel: Minimal travel (10%) depending upon project assignment

Location: Springdale, Arkansas (onsite)

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

No

Work Shift:

1ST SHIFT (United States of America)

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Tyson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, national origin, color, religion, age, genetics, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

We provide our team members and their families with paid time off; 401(k) plans; affordable health, life, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; and more.

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