IT Project Manager

Join our team of more than 34,000 team members, supporting our members and communities in our Club Support Center, 235+ clubs and eight distribution centers. BJ's Wholesale Club offers a collaborative and inclusive environment where all team members can learn, grow and be their authentic selves. Together, we're committed to providing outstanding service and convenience to our members, helping them save on the products and services they need for their families and homes.

The Benefits of working at BJ's

• BJ's pays weekly

• Generous time off programs to support busy lifestyles*

o Vacation, Personal, Holiday, Sick, Bereavement Leave, Jury Duty

• Benefit plans for your changing needs*

o Three medical plans**, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), Health Savings Account (HSA), two dental plans, flexible spending

*eligibility requirements vary by position

**medical plans vary by location

DUTIES: Build and maintain detailed, meaningful project plans that establish actual and forecasted activities and timelines, proactively manage deviations, identify and manage project risks and issues, ensure the project team is properly defined and staffed, including oversight of activities being conducted by external partners. The IT Project Manager ("PM") acts as the liaison among the project's stakeholders from across the organization and ensures that timely communications are occurring throughout the project's lifecycle. The PM is responsible for ensuring that all projects comply with all BJ's Project Lifecycle Methodology requirements, established change management practices and policies, and any regulatory requirements.

The PM is responsible for managing day-to-day project activities, including but not limited to:

• Balancing and managing scope, time and resources for a multi-disciplined project teams to achieve desired results
• Managing project budgets and recommending subsequent budget changes where appropriate
• Tracking project milestones, deliverables, and dependencies
• Devising contingency and mitigation plans
• Managing and actively driving resolution of issues (escalate issues early, drive open issues to resolution and deliver on-time)
• Developing and maintaining demand and resource capacity models
• Analyzing results, troubleshooting problem areas, and making corresponding recommendations
• Providing impact analysis and alternatives to senior leadership
• Managing and actively driving resolution of complex project issues
• Ensuring projects remain aligned with the defined objectives as well as organizational, business and technology strategies
• Participating in and co-facilitating meetings with business partners to ensure continued alignment
• Preparing and delivering effective, timely and meaningful communications (written and verbal) throughout the project lifecycle
• Settings and continually managing project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Keeping pace with emerging project and portfolio management trends and best practices
• Leading vendor negotiations and developing corresponding statements of work
• Managing vendors who are engaged in our projects
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage multiple projects in parallel

TRAVEL: None

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Engineering or foreign equivalent or related field, plus 5 years of experience in a Business Analyst role 5 years experience in identifying and writing business requirements, requirements management, design, mapping, testing; experience working in all phases of software development methodology lifecycle; solution development and application architecture using JEE(J2EE); experience identifying and managing project dependencies and critical paths; experience with enterprise applications including SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle; MS Visio and Powerpoint, SOA based implementation, CAR, DAR; experience with SMES to define and document technical requirements; Experience may be gained concurrently.