Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Robert Half is partnering with a global eCommerce enterprise in search of a highly skilled Program Manager to join their team in Seattle.

This role requires an individual with a strong background in data analysis, risk management, and business operations optimization.

The Program Manager will be responsible for overseeing cross-functional projects, managing risks and opportunities, and driving operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate will have experience influencing key stakeholders, delivering complex projects, and optimizing business processes.

Location : Seattle, WA (remote but all candidates must be local to Seattle)

Duration : 2-month initial contract w / potential for extension

Hours : 40 hours / week

Pay Rate : $80-90 / hour

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage a high volume of requests and engagements in a fast-paced environment, ensuring seamless operations.
• Track existing metrics and develop new ones to validate schedule and team performance, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Create and implement performance improvement plans in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide detailed performance reports in weekly and monthly forums for senior leadership and partner teams.
• Set measurable targets that support the overall objectives of the organization.
• Translate internal team requirements into actionable risks and opportunities, ensuring project success.

Top 3 Focus Areas :

• Data Analysis and Reporting : Demonstrated expertise in processing data, analyzing insights, and presenting key metrics to senior leadership for informed decision-making.
• Risk and Issue Management : Proficiency in developing, managing, and optimizing a comprehensive program-level risk, issue, and opportunity management framework.
• Business Operations Optimization : Experience in creating and streamlining operational processes to drive efficiency, centralization, and stakeholder adoption across the organization.

Required Skills and Experience :

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Proven ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating outcomes to senior leadership.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present to senior leaders and collaborate with both business and technical teams.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on delivering solutions to complex challenges.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Preferred Qualifications :

• 5+ years of experience recommending and implementing solutions to achieve deliverables.
• Strong experience in developing structural solutions to ambiguous problems.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• MBA or Master’s degree in management, business administration, engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years working directly with engineering teams.
• Experience working on aerospace products or projects is a plus.
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