Senior IT Project Manager
Job Description
McDonald's Corporation continues to grow and expand!
We are one of most recognized brands in the world. In 2018, we have been rated as a top 10 place to work in Chicago. As a modern, dynamic “Tech” company, we are continually changing the Retail Food Service industry. Working in our IT sector of the corporation will provide you with meaningful work, rewarding career opportunities, and one of the best comprehensive benefits packages in the industry.
McDonald’s is taking our business beyond the walls of restaurants - revolutionizing how we interface with our customers. We are providing customers with enticing mobile, web, engagement, and kiosk solutions on the scale of industry leading retailers. Technology is essential to our digital strategy and a top priority for McDonald’s. The Global Technology Development team is looking for a skilled Senior IT Project Manager to play a meaningful role in bringing our technology vision to life.
In this high impact role, you will be responsible for the project management of full-stack development including mobile, web, engagement, and kiosk solutions from requirements through development, ultimately ensuring that the McDonald’s vision comes to life. Our solutions require a level of technology integration and multi-functional collaboration exceeding our most complex initiatives to date. The role is ideal for an ambitious technology professional who has an aptitude for leading teams in a complex dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate high performing teams made up of technical project managers, product managers, and vendor project managers, ensuring key priorities are moved forward with speed and on schedule.
- Project manage scope definition, road maps, integrated project schedules, roles and responsibilities, program status, governance, alignment, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and communications.
- Work closely with McDonald’s product owners to understand priorities and implement the McDonald’s strategy.
- Understand or rapidly develop understanding of the technology and how it works together to create one solution.
- Interface and collaborate with end-to-end program managers and market deployment teams to deliver comprehensive localized solutions.
- Sets and holds teams accountable to project deliverables, quality, and performance standards.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Business, Finance or Engineering is required.
- 10+ years’ experience in an IT organization
- 5+ years project management experience leading complex cross-functional IT initiatives; PMP and/or Agile certification is a plus
- 3+ years project management experience leading mobile, web, engagement, and/or kiosk solutions
- Exceptionally influential with a demonstrated ability to establish rapport, orchestrate and motivate teams, lead without formal (line) authority
- Adapts to changes in priorities with ease, comfortable working “in the gray” while defining the way forward.
- Desire and ability to build strong, cohesive relationships at all levels of the organization- up, down, and across.
- Proven technical acumen.
- Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise way, ensuring the organization makes rapid and informed decisions.
- Hardworking facilitator who consistently leads conflict and issue resolution.
- Ambitious leader who actively works to remove barriers to achieving results.
- Experience working with global teams preferred.
- Extensive experience working within Demand Management and Capacity Planning
Exceptionally influential with a demonstrated ability to establish rapport, orchestrate and motivate teams, lead without formal (line) authority
Adapts to changes in priorities with ease, comfortable working “in the gray” while defining the way forward.
Desire and ability to build strong, cohesive relationships at all levels of the organization- up, down, and across.
Proven technical acumen.
Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise way, ensuring the organization makes rapid and informed decisions.
Hardworking facilitator who consistently leads conflict and issue resolution.
Ambitious leader who actively works to remove barriers to achieving results.
Experience working with global teams preferred.
Extensive experience working within Demand Management and Capacity Planning