Sr R&D Project Manager

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About the job

The R&D Technology, Infrastructure, and Architecture (TIA) team seeks a Senior R&D Project Manager to support our technology enablement teams. Our highly collaborative team enables SAS engineers, architects, administrators, and users throughout R&D to be at their best, maximize their results, innovate, and continuously improve their ability to execute efficiently.

As a Senior R&D Project Manager, you will:

• Support the R&D TIA teams in the completion of deadline-driven, team-based projects. Responsible for facilitating overall project objectives, goals, and project requirements. Working with the team and stakeholders to define project scope and goals.

• Collaborate with TIA leadership to plan, prioritize, implement, and adjust the delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality based on individual project requirements.

• Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage conflict. Coordinates risk mitigation activity and escalates as appropriate. Manages project scope and expectations. Identifies and constructively negotiates conflicts or areas of high risk.

• Maintain project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports.

• Leverage methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery.

• dentify project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivering the final product. Acts as a central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Global Information Security (GIS), and Cloud Information Services (CIS), to ensure project success.

Required qualifications:

• Eight years of experience in a technical project management role.

• Bachelors degree in a quantitative field.

• Excellent competence in technical project management

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Excellent negotiation and organizational abilities

• Excellent decision-making ability

• Excellent risk management skills

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong strategic thinking skills

• Strong leadership skills

• May serve as a coach to their peers and project teams across a variety of methodologies and processes

• Experience with the Agile methodology and ability to direct/coach teams in the use of Agile methodology are strongly preferred.

World-class benefits

Highlights include... • Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans. • Medical plan options include…• PPO with low annual deductible and copays. • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center). • Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that's free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge! • An industry-leading 401k plan. • Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1. • Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days. • Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it's not about fitting into our culture - it's about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it's essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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