What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Advisor-Program Manager position at FedEx Freight?
This position will be domiciled at a FedEx Freight location in Memphis, Tennessee. You will be required to work at a FedEx Freight location several times per week.
Position Overview
Supports efforts to provide technical expertise and support for planning, developing, organizing, and coordinating small and medium programs/projects. Research evaluates and recommends new technologies, methodologies, processes, and products to achieve innovative improvements. Collects, analyzes, and produces financial and performance indicators and forecasts.
Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities
Qualifications
Experience working with enterprise level contracts
Experience leading technical projects including software and hardware initiatives in a datacenter context
PMP or equivalent certification
EST FedEx Freight, Inc
FedEx Freight is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. If you have a disability and you need assistance in order to apply for a position with FedEx Freight, please e-mail at ADAAssistance@fedexfreight.com. FedEx Freight will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Position Overview
Supports efforts to provide technical expertise and support for planning, developing, organizing, and coordinating small and medium programs/projects. Research evaluates and recommends new technologies, methodologies, processes, and products to achieve innovative improvements. Collects, analyzes, and produces financial and performance indicators and forecasts.
Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities
- Ability to manage competing demands while maintaining out of the box thinking.
- Knowledge in agile product development life cycle (PDLC) and/or software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies with some experience leading projects.
- Product launch from "0 to 1” optimizing it for "1 to many" in your portfolio.
- Focus on scale with the flexibility to adapt in a constantly evolving environment.
- Experienced in partnering with and bringing multiple departments into alignment.
- Able to communicate complex data in a simple format to share decisions, process updates and tradeoffs to large audiences (i.e. in-person meetings, asynchronous meetings, email, and/or shared live docs).
- Process-driven with a bias toward action. Bonus points for experience within high-growth tech startup.
- Solution based thinking with the ability to break down complex concepts into understandable, smaller and sequential deliverables
- Influencing skills to guide stakeholders to understand vision, resources, priorities, and definition of completion/release.
- Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field.
- Seven (7) years’ experience in project/program management, product development, systems design/development or business/financial planning and analysis.,
- Ability to tailor communications of complex concepts to all levels in an understandable manner
- Experience in the use of project management/planning software
- Experience in planning major projects including development of project proposals, business cases, schedules and financial justification.
- Demonstrated analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
- Must be able to communicate with customers effectively and present ideas and solutions in a user language.
- Some travel required
Experience working with enterprise level contracts
Experience leading technical projects including software and hardware initiatives in a datacenter context
PMP or equivalent certification
EST FedEx Freight, Inc
FedEx Freight is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. If you have a disability and you need assistance in order to apply for a position with FedEx Freight, please e-mail at ADAAssistance@fedexfreight.com. FedEx Freight will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.