Project Manager, Innovation and Business Optimization

3 weeks ago

Houston Texas, Harris County, TX, United States Waste Management Full time

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

WM, a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

To enable our business to expand our lead in a market increasingly enhanced by technology, Waste Management is undertaking a substantial technology transformation. We are seeking talented Information Technology professionals to join the Waste Management team who are motivated to help us transform the way we design, build and use technology. With your skills and experience, we look for you to combine your technical expertise with industry best practices in an effort to align information technology solutions with Waste Management business strategy.

I. Job Summary

In this role you’ll contribute to project management efforts as a part of the WM’s Innovation and Business Optimization organization. You will conduct Project process planning, execution, through completion of small to medium sized business projects. You will work on custom software development projects, implementation of out of the box solutions, and enhancement to existing software. Drives communication of project status with senior levels of leadership to align business optimization initiatives.

II. Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily. Other ancillary duties may be assigned.

  • Drives project activities through SDLC effectively applying various methodologies and standards to ensure quality and success of on time, budget and delivery of projects.
  • Assembles project teams, assigns individual responsibilities, develops schedules, and determines and acquires resource allocation.
    Communicates business case to project team to assist with decision making and prioritization; keeps business case at fore-front to drive decisions.
  • Acts as liaison between stakeholders and Senior Leadership on project status, issues, and risks.
  • Creates, manages, and maintains project plans and ensures effective financial forecasting and tracking.
  • Interfaces with other technology and business organizations to reach agreement on scope, obtain resources and ensure proper preparedness.
  • Reviews and evaluates quality, timeliness and adherence to organizational policies and procedures.
  • Collaborates with the business on systems strategy, requirements, designing prototyping, testing, training, procedures, and implementing solutions.
  • Presents effectively to senior levels within the organization including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership.
  • Liaisons with business units to partner on project scope, risk mitigation and issue resolution.
  • Understands all aspects of the IT Governance and reporting.
  • Provides project planning, budgeting, contract management and procurement partnership.
III. Supervisory Responsibilities

May coach and mentor less experienced team members and act as team leader on systems projects.

IV. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration or similar area of study or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant work experience.

Experience: Four (4) years of relevant work experience (in addition to education requirement). Three (3) years of project management experience also required.

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

Preferred: SAFE, Agile or PMP Certification

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

Intermediate knowledge or skills in one or more of the following required:

Managing multiple projects, in various stages of the SDLC, at one time.

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology (specifically in Guide Five and Nine, Waterfall).

Agile Project Management methodologies.

Leading infrastructure-related projects such as network upgrades, hardware procurement, core Technology application deployments (such as email upgrades), and deployment and/or facility build-out.

Aiding in definition of systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines.

Presenting, communicating and articulating effectively to all levels of the organization (including technical and non-technical audiences, Senior Leadership, VPs and C-Level Executives).

Ability to interface with senior-level stakeholders in both Information Technology and the business units to partner on project scope, risk mitigation and issue resolution.

Understanding all aspects of the IT Governance and reporting.

Ability to create, own and present executive level presentations or communications.

May require intermediate skills in one or more of the following:

Written and verbal communication skills as well as listening skills.

Working as part of a project team.

Attention to detail.

Analytical and qualitative abilities.

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

  • Normal setting for this job is: office setting and/or landfill/outdoor.

Benefits
At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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