Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Information Technology Department has an opening for a Project Manager. This position is located in Phoenix, Arizona.

Position Purpose
This Project Manager role will support Albertsons cloud engineering and integration services areas, and will manage all key project deliverables including, planning, scheduling, financial tracking, resource coordination and project status. This position will be responsible for driving workstreams in support of Albertsons Azure migration strategy and future cloud engineering initiatives.

This person should embody the Albertsons Employee Promise while ensuring our company's belief in Making Every Day a Better Day is a top priority.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Build strong working relationships with business stakeholder and ensure project support and commitment
* Define project scope, deliverables and roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders, business partners and project team members.
* Lead and manage engagements and internal business partners to complete customer requests in accordance with established budget, work plan and scope.
* Own and identify issues critical to our operational success.
* Develop and present conclusions and recommendations to internal senior management.
* Participate and lead regular status and internal management meetings.
* Participate in the development of cost benefit analysis, associated budgets and tracking of actual costs spent vs budget and regularly reporting on project status to management.
* Assign and monitor work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on time and within budget.
* Identify, analyze, prioritize, and manage project risks. Develop contingency plans to mitigate risks.
* Manage stakeholder communications and approvals.
* Manage project related documentation like proposals, progress reports, requirements, and presentations.
* Plan and execute deployments, support handover of project and necessary trainings.

Qualifications:

* 4-year degree (Information Systems, Business Administration, or relational functional field) and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience.
* 4 years of project management experience, with an emphasis on information systems and technical project Management.
* Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
* Strong background of working with or within Project Management Office (PMO)
* Ability to do project planning, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning, and risk assessment.
* Strong experience in Microsoft project or any other project management tools, financial management, scheduling, risk management capabilities.
* Experience in working with offshore / onshore model.
* Ability to understand project planning and develop project timelines.
* Ability to understand client expectations and recognize and escalate issues that may affect delivery.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to collaborate across various groups, build relationships and manage effectively in a matrix organization.
* Strong customer service aptitude and ability to follow through to resolve customer issues.
* Knowledge of process evaluation and selection of products, tools, services, and infrastructure components in line with an organization's business needs.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting careersatsafeway.com

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons-Safeway. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons-Safeway policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- all applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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