About the Role
Join our world-class technology team and be a key partner in shaping our digital future. This role will expand our strategic technical direction and implement solutions that enable business strategies, transforming the timber industry with innovative technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage moderate to complex IT programs and projects from initiation to completion.
- Take ownership and accountability for project delivery, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all project-related activities.
- Develop a program plan outlining scope, timelines, resource requirements, and interdependencies.
- Develop comprehensive project and program plans, including timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and risk management strategies.
- Coordinate project activities, track progress, and manage project risks and issues.
- Implement effective project management methodologies and best practices (agile, waterfall, hybrid).
- Oversee the execution of project tasks, ensuring adherence to the project plan and timelines.
- Monitor progress, track milestones, and resolve any issues or roadblocks.
- Assemble and lead a project/program team, assigning roles and responsibilities.
- Provide direction, guidance, support, and motivation to ensure effective teamwork and collaboration.
- Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including executives, sponsors, project managers, external partners, and team members.
- Manage expectations, solve problems, escalate issues, and drive decisions.
- Create and help execute comprehensive change management strategies and communication plans.
- Establish program/project governance structures, processes, and frameworks.
- Define roles and responsibilities for program governance committees and project teams.
- Allocate and manage resources across projects within the program.
- Optimize resource utilization, address conflicts, and monitor resource availability.
- Collaborate with Resource Managers to secure resources for your project.
- Establish project budgets, track project spending, and reforecast spending regularly.
- Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues across the program.
- Develop mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and escalation procedures.
- Maintain RAID log.
- Implement processes to monitor and control project progress, milestones, scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables.
- Regularly assess project and program performance, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and provide status reports.
- Manage changes within the program, including changes in scope, requirements, or timelines.
- Evaluate change requests, assess their impact on the program, document change decisions, and communicate changes effectively.
- Define and implement quality standards, processes, and metrics.
- Conduct project / program audits and reviews to identify areas for improvement.
- Manage relationships with external vendors and contractors, including contract negotiation, performance monitoring, and issue resolution.
- Identify areas for improvement based on lessons learned from completed projects.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging innovation, process enhancements, and lessons learned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of progressive, relevant experience in an IT Program Manager role.
- Deep experience managing moderately complex IT projects and programs from beginning to end, meeting budget, scope, schedule, and benefits targets.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
- Expert in all aspects of project management including accountability for business case development, end-to-end financial and cost analysis, risk management, and organizational change management.
- Proficient ability to manage programs involving multiple projects including resource management, generating program-level metrics, program portfolio governance and prioritization.
- In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), as well as relevant industry standards, best practices.
- Experience with industry standard project management tools (MS project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps) is required.
- Proven ability to plan and execute the work in agile sprints while providing full transparency into the progress to complete the agreed upon project scope in alignment with project level milestones and deliverables is required.
Skills
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Hybrid
- MS Project
- Smartsheet
- Azure DevOps
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $131,082 - $196,766
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Pre-tax Health Savings Account option with company contribution
- Voluntary Long-Term Care
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Personal volunteerism support
- Diversity network sponsorship
- Mentoring programs
- Training and development opportunities
- 401k plan with company match
- 3-weeks of paid vacation in the first year
- Paid parental leave
- Eleven paid holidays per year
About the Company
- Weyerhaeuser is the world’s premier timber, land, and forest products company.
- Sustainability is the founding concept of our business.
- Our values drive every decision to ensure we continue to lead the forestry industry in sustainability practices.
- We planted our first seedling by hand in 1938.
- Our success is dependent on the success of our people.
- For over 100 years, our Weyerhaeuser team has been making a difference in the world.
- We ensure every acre is managed with diligence, patience, and pride.
Equal Opportunity
- Weyerhaeuser is an equal opportunity employer.
- Inclusion is one of our five core values.
- We strive to maintain a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging, opportunity and shared purpose.
- We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and supporting an equitable and inclusive environment that inspires people of all backgrounds to join, stay and thrive with our team.
