IT Program Manager - Lexington, United States - Tempur Sealy

Description

Tempur Sealy is committed to improving the sleep of more people, every night, all around the world. As a leading designer, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of bedding products worldwide, we know how crucial a good night of sleep is to overall health and wellness. Utilizing over a century of knowledge and industry-leading innovation, we deliver award-winning products that provide breakthrough sleep solutions to consumers in over 100 countries. Our highly recognized brands include Tempur-Pedic, Sealy and Stearns & Foster. We hire people who have a passion for helping others find their best night's sleep. No matter what stage of your career, you can build your future at Tempur Sealy

OUR COMPANY OFFERS GREAT BENEFITS, INCLUDING:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Competitive Medical, Dental & other wellness programs
• Disability and Life Company Paid
• Retirement Plan Options
• Generous Employee Purchase Discounts

Pay Range: $100,000 - $142,000

Job Summary: Tempur Sealy is currently seeking an exceptional candidate to be an integral member of the IT Program Management Office (PMO) at Tempur Sealy. This IT Program Manager candidate will work closely with IT and business leadership to oversee large, enterprise-wide programs that support key corporate business initiatives.

As a member of the PMO, this individual will manage team members through successful collaboration, coordination, and communication across all levels in the organization using TSI standard project management processes. This opportunity requires expert knowledge and experience in large scale technology programs and a proven ability to lead diverse implementation teams.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities, and Key Results Area:

Provide Expert Program Management including:

• Defining large scale project/program objectives and ensuring alignment with TSI enterprise business and IT strategies.
• Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing enterprise level projects and programs while adhering to TSI PMO standard project management methodologies including developing project charters, scope, resource, requirements, risk, issue, schedule, budget, procurement, communication, and quality management plans.
• Informing management on project and program objectives and progress; escalating issues for prompt remediation.
• Ensuring clear processes and procedures are defined and executed during the life of the project or program.
• Enabling crisp communication using standard tools and reporting rhythms including issues, risks, gaps, decisions, status, and critical upcoming events and formal stage gate reporting.
• Leading cross-functional project teams including business and IT resources across multiple functional areas in a matrixed organization.
• Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project/program.
• Facilitating and coordinating test plans, training plans and organizational change management initiatives.
• Overseeing external vendor relationships where necessary.
• Facilitating reengineering business processes, modifications to organizational roles and responsibilities, and replacing legacy technologies as appropriate.
• Managing business and technology resources responsible for the implementation including data quality efforts for master data.
• Serving as stakeholder advocate and ensuring balanced decisions are made throughout the project that consider return on investment, risk mitigation, data integrity, employee satisfaction, and sustainability.

Other primary duties and responsibilities include the following; however, Management reserves the right to assign or reassign other appropriate duties to this job at any time. This document excludes the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties.

Ideal Candidate Possesses These Attributes:

Qualifications:

• Proven experience managing and overseeing large-scale, enterprise-wide programs and projects
• Ability to closely manage enterprise level program and project schedules, budgets, scope, and resources
• Adept in industry standard project management methodologies; adheres firmly to standard processes
• Previous successful ERP implementation experience or support of an ERP implementation desired; Microsoft Dynamics 365 preferred
• Superb communication and collaboration skills including the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms and the ability to foster collaboration among team members and business stakeholders
• Strong leadership, presentation skills, and ability to effectively and efficiently lead meetings for all levels of stakeholders
• Adept at situational leadership
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to describe the big picture and details alike
• Demonstrated ability to plan ahead and forecast activities, days, weeks, and months in advance.
• Self-starter with the ability to take initiative/pro-actively solve problems
• Expert in process definition and process improvement initiatives
• Understanding of current industry trends and general business knowledge
• General proficiency in reading and interpreting technical documentation
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university

Functional:

• Superior organization, management, and self-management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively and efficiently communicate with remote teams
• Excellent relationship building and people skills
• Proven negotiation and influencing skills
• Process-oriented; able to establish and execute well-defined processes with clear owners and handoffs and able to communicate and consistently engage these processes within the business and the project team
• Problem solver able to approach solutions with an enterprise view
• Pro-active, independent, task-oriented self-starter, ready to own tasks and present solutions
• Adept in impact analysis, trade-offs, critical thinking and decision making
• Demonstrated leader as well as team player able to work effectively with people with different view or ideas
• Leverages functional/technical expertise to get results
• Demonstrated ability to think cross functionally and influence change within a multi-departmental environment
• Displays a sense of urgency, focuses on priority tasks first
• Ability to facilitate effective brainstorming
• Shows a strong sense of purpose
• Persistent, task driven, goal oriented

Training/Certifications:

• PMP Certification preferred
• Proficiency in, but not limited to, Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word), Microsoft Project
• Experience with Teams, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Visio

Tempur Sealy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type based upon race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.