Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

Vancouver BC - Onsite

We operate following agile framework and leverage multiple product teams across our various functions. We encourage our teams to norm and figure out the best way to deliver critical business initiatives. We institute a culture of fun and lightheartedness to enjoy work each day. We are inclusive and know that we are stronger as a team than as an individual.

Experience and Skillset :

• Initiates, plans, controls, and implements medium to large cross-divisional, multi-year programs and projects utilizing lululemon’s project management practices
• Ensures overall deliverables are completed, including project charter, plan, schedule, requirements, design, development, testing, implementation, policies and procedures, standards, contracts, risks, and issues resolutions
• Plans projects in detail, develops and manages project budgets, organizes project teams and works with resource managers to coordinate and align resource needs
• Identifies, evaluates, and proactively manages cross-project interdependencies
• Manages progress of efforts and communicates status to sponsors, stakeholders on a regular basis and to senior leadership as needed
• Participates in strategic roadmap planning and may facilitate and provide materials for portfolio review meetings
• Excellent communication skills, able to flex style and work with all levels within the organization from individual contributors to Executives
• Proactively identify opportunities and contribute to continuous business process improvement efforts to help streamline and standardize workflow, communication, and resource efficiencies utilizing relative process improvement techniques and methodologies.
• Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
• May conduct technical walkthroughs with software engineers to ensure technical feasibility and standards across departments.
• Collaborates with operations support and other teams to ensure robust production operations

Qualifications :

5-10 years Project Management experience with expertise on with payments, pricing or fraud prevention solutions and vendors

3+ years’ experience in Retail Systems, development, and delivery (highly valued)

Experience creating and executing implementation strategies for complex systems

Use judgement to identify new opportunities to improve payment, fraud and pricing processes

Strong relationship management skills and understanding of organizational change management

Understanding of various delivery frameworks and practices (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, Lean, etc.) and appropriate application of them

Ability to apply highly complex principles, theories and concepts of the technical discipline and provide solutions to a wide range of complex tasks, projects, and problem

Ability to determine estimates of effort and impacts for a variety of solutions and influence technical discussions and decisions

Strong organizational skills with the ability to track and prioritize numerous tasks and to coordinate activities with a high sense of urgency

Excellent presentation, verbal, written, interpersonal and listening skills

Strong interpersonal and leadership skills including collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation

Strong collaboration skills to achieve business goals collectively across broad teams

Strong vendor management skills

Challenges the status quo, champions change and influences others to change

Must-haves :

Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results

Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same

Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure

Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships

Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka does not take themselves too seriously