Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY
Join the Advance Auto Part’s CRM team and start reimagining the future of online shopping in automotive retail. Disrupt the way consumers buy from and engage with auto-parts retailers and join a sophisticated marketing team to take on the industry’s biggest players in this $100B industry.
The Manager is responsible for assembling project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project. In order to effectively coordinate the activities of the team, the Manager must be familiar with system scope and project objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member. The Manager operates under general management supervision. The ideal candidate is not only passionate about product management but also focuses on business needs and customer experience. The day-to-day work is interesting, challenging and fast-paced!
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES includes the following. Other duties may be assigned.

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  Work with business stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and other IT teams to define the vision, roadmaps, strategy for Store Systems based on customer and stakeholder needs, company goals and strategy, market trends and technology advancement
• Work closely with a nimble team of software engineers and enterprise architects to ensure the solutions meets our business needs using Agile methodologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Identify appropriate resource needs; work with appropriate management to get resource commitments; make recommendations in sourcing strategy
• Ensure contractual documentation is in place, utilizing appropriate procurement processes
• Create and manage delivery schedule; track progress in completing project tasks. Ensure project schedules are as efficient as possible, utilizing critical path analysis where appropriate; and ensure project resources accurately charge time to appropriate tasks.
• Manage scope - utilize appropriate tools and processes to manage/track requirements and conflicts; ensure appropriate change management processes/tools are used
• Manage cost; provide level of effort and estimates, ensure financial forecast is created and maintained through the project
• Track and manage risk and issues; appropriately escalate to management and project stakeholders
• Prepare and present status reports on a regular basis to management and project stakeholders
• Coordinate with Security Architecture and Engineering functions regarding the selection and implementation of applicable controls.
• Plan for and work flexibly to deadlines
• Maintain a leadership expertise on current technology, trends, and best practices.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Communication Skills

• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative business approaches, work with architects to come to an agreed approach, and lead development efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with or lead cross-functional project teams with minimal supervision.
• Ability to act independently requiring minimal oversight, being highly productive, driving and promoting meaningful innovation in an agile environment
• Ability to drive consensus within a team and influence outcomes in significant technical decision-making.
• Ability to understand high level technical designs and communicate approaches to business partners.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills to work with different business groups as well as IT partners (enterprise architects, vendors, etc.)
• Be able to work with teams with varying levels of technical backgrounds and experiences.
• Experience presenting to and influencing across an organization.

Time Management

• Ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritize multiple streams of activity. Adapt well to changes.
• Ability to meet commitments, handle changing priorities and to use good judgment when working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a high-level of accuracy and efficiency.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, ability to build and maintain relationships on an enterprise scale, to influence without direct authority

Analytical Skills

• Demonstrated critical thinking and negotiation skills.
• Extreme attention to detail and organization in all aspects of the project development.
• Open-minded, willing to consider multiple options, sources, perspectives, and possible solutions. Careful assessment of the importance, relevance, and validity of all options.
• Inquisitive. Ask probing questions and research as a basis for making design decisions and judging quality; understand the true reason behind the request rather than just accepting an initial thought or proposed solution.
• Ability to negotiate and prioritize requests from multiple stakeholders to maximize the impact and value for engineering efforts
• Ability to make decisions quickly and independently; use of data driven processes for decision making.
• Proactive and willing to contribute ideas. Not afraid to ask questions.

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of a development background in application development and/or technical project management, especially in retail industry and web technology area (strongly preferred).
• Strong familiarity with user experience, web technology and Java/J2EE application stacks.
• Strong familiarity with Cloud, Micro Services, Containers, CI/CD, and React/Angular
• Strong experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment; Certified Scrum Master Certification is preferred.
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence and Microsoft Office products.
• Basic understanding of Organizational Change Management principals and ability to make recommendations for appropriate adoption of IT solutions.
• Understanding of basic project accounting principles.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline; or 5-7 years of practical experience managing simultaneous projects driving successful delivery according to scope, schedule and budget; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Total of 10+ years in Application Development or Infrastructure Engineering managing developers with at least 5 years in a supervisory role or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Experience in building and leading teams (developers, business analysts, quality assurance testers, project manager).
• Sound knowledge of the principles of product management.
• Strong analytical & strategic planning skills; ability to set clear objectives and priorities to drive execution.
• Experience in large scale applications – either public facing web applications or applications with large numbers of concurrent users.
• Experience with either on-line or in-store retail selling applications
• Experience with on premises as well as AWS cloud development

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish delivery goals and KPIs to measure against them.
• Setting quarterly and annual goals for performance and deadlines in ways that comply with department goals and vision.
• Organize workflow and ensuring that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks.
• Monitor employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching.
• Manage overall team and individuals’ skillsets, performance and throughput through training plans, career development, and performance management.
• Ability to use collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Other duties or tasks as assigned by management

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) – Nice to have
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (SCPO) – Nice to have

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
TRAVEL Occasional travel may be required