Project Manager – International Solutions

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwideBEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Creates and maintains project plans and schedules, and ensures the project requirements are defined and meet the project’s objectives.

• Directs large scale, technical projects, and collaborates with employees, leadership, clients, and other internal and external stakeholders.

• Develops, executes, and composes clear and effective communications, training, and post delivery support plans.

• Defines, tracks, and communicates project milestones.

• Creates and manages resource plans by providing strategic and tactical resource forecasting, providing predictive analysis of resource demands, and requests appropriate resources for project needs.

• Executes formal project change requests.

• Manages projects using different types of methodologies, based on project need.

• Tracks, manages, mitigates, and documents risks and issues.

• Identifies and tracks project and non-project support issues, ensures follow-through, evaluates and identifies areas for improvement on the project and program lifecycle, and develops analysis and reporting to target and monitor improvement trends.

• Manages clear and specific contractual terms for required project work with vendors.

• Uses subject matter expertise to articulate high level technical status and provide status reports to the appropriate audience.

• Works with Management and other Project Managers to identify critical paths, coordinate deliverables and interdependencies, develop processes to maintain dependency tracking, and ensures project dependencies are identified and managed.

• Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options and implements solutions.

• Leads stakeholder/team meetings and demonstrates confidence, control, and public speaking proficiency.

• Maintains effective partnerships with teams, vendors, managers, leaders, and stakeholders.

• Analyzes key data points to determine a project’s disposition and health, and establish governance.

• Manages and monitors practices, processes, and procedures consistent with Costco's information security policy and IT standards.

• Identifies opportunities for streamlining, and increasing effectiveness through continuous process improvement.

• Works with functional managers to staff projects by acquiring the necessary personnel from the various functional areas.

• Works with the project team to define and document project scope.

• Works with team leads to create a project plan and critical path with appropriate level of detail and manage tasks to support project governance requirements.

• Plans, leads and delivers highly technical, complex IT solutions across multiple business, IT and country teams.

• Develops project budgets, manages changes and tracks actual costs and variance to approved budget.

• Manages issues, risks and changes to project scope, schedule and budget.

• Communicates project status to IS and business management.

• Finalizes project through identification and summarization of lessons learned and creation of the project closedown report.

• Mentors team members in project management artifacts, processes, tools and techniques.

• Ensures all project artifacts and deliverables are documented, approved, and stored for re-usability, support, and audit purposes in designated project tools.

REQUIRED

• Minimum of five years’ experience applying project management methodologies.

• Experience in leading portfolio and/or project management efforts using industry standard methods.

• Demonstrated leadership in simultaneously managing multiple large, complex, cross-functional projects on time, on budget, with requirements met.

• Proven ability to develop business relationships and work successfully with people at all levels of management.

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written, including presentation skills to executive level business stakeholders.

• Proven ability to manage program/project level budgeting and provide financial tracking over multiple countries and several million dollars.

• Demonstrated ability to motivate project teams in the completion of projects.

• Extremely responsive with a strong sense of urgency.

• Available for evening, weekend, and holiday work.

• Must be available for travel up to 25% of the time.

Recommended

• Familiarity with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is desired.

• Experience with Rational Team Concert (RTC) desired.

• Experience with Google Docs and Google Sites desired.

• Experience with Agile desired.

• Demonstrated experience to plan, lead and deliver highly technical, complex IT solutions across multiple business, IT and country teams.

• Navigate successfully in a highly matrixed organization.

• Demonstrate technical and / or data related acumen, as a Project Manager.

• Project experience in one or more of the following areas: large scale SAP rollouts, Oracle, International country experience.

• Demonstrate core project management skills including communication plans, statuses, scope, charter, and risk management documents and negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

• LEAN, Six Sigma or PM/PMP certifications encouraged.

• Multi-lingual ( Mandarin/Cantonese a plus).

Required Documents

• Cover Letter

• Resume

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Pay Range:

Level 2 - $110,000 - $155,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $165,000

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.