Business Project Manager

Lowe's Home Centers•Mooresville, NC

11d

About The Position

The Business Project Manager – Marketing supports the planning, coordination, and delivery of initiatives that transform how marketing and technology teams collaborate to drive efficiency, insight, and impact. This role helps advance marketing’s operational maturity by improving processes, implementing scalable solutions, and fostering alignment across marketing, data, and technology functions. The primary purpose of this role is to have single-threaded ownership of delivering business projects that are small to medium in size, moderately complex, and that typically involve multiple workstreams or functional groups. This includes responsibility for managing projects end-to-end through the planning, development, execution, and implementation stages while adhering to the ePMO framework.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree Business Administration, Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
4 years experience in program and project management
2 years leadership experience with direct report responsibility, comfortable managing teams with 5+ people.
Expert in project life cycle methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, etc.), stakeholder. management, conflict resolution, executive communication (written, verbal, etc.)
4 years experience developing project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) / User Stories used to create project schedules and estimates
Experience managing operational or project/program financial budgets

Nice To Haves

1 Year corporate experience, retail a plus
4 years experience in enterprise project planning and coordination and working on projects or programs requiring the integration of cross-functional solutions
2 years experience using formal business process improvement methodologies
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)-PMI or other project/program management certification; Agile/Scrum/SAFe

Responsibilities

Delivers multiple Business projects that are less complex or one to two small to medium size moderately complex from planning to minimum realization with full responsibility and accountability for the outcomes; includes organizing and tracking project details and communicating consistently with project stakeholders and personnel
Manages the delivery of medium-scale marketing technology initiatives that improve team efficiency, operational consistency, and campaign execution.
Develops, analyzes, and manages all touch points of the project plan including responsibility for scheduling, global resource forecasting, managing project financials, and providing input and justification for costs and budget impact
Monitors or owns the overall performance (timeline, budget, and resource utilization) of small to medium-sized projects against plan and works through the project team to implement adjustments when issues/risks are identified and require resolution
Identifies blockers and proactively drives solutions, escalating issues as needed to ensure teams have clarity and direction to keep work moving forward.
Coordinates cross-functional project workstreams across Marketing, Technology, and Data teams, ensuring clear communication, aligned priorities, and timely execution of deliverables.
Drives the work of assigned project team by requesting resources to support Technology project demands and communicating a clear vision of project goals and objectives to the team
Aligns team activities to ensure project milestones are achieved
Controls and mitigates project risks/issues by performing the qualitative and quantitative analysis of scenarios and trigger events, planning response, establishing contingency plans, anticipating dependencies affected by ongoing project changes, and recommending ways to mitigate future risks to management
Manages and ensures the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management
Reviews and/or prepares status reports on key project performance metrics (i.e., deliverables, financials, duration, benefits) and/or provides data input
Decomposes the work breakdown structure and translates it into detailed project plans, taking into consideration resource availability, dependencies, and the work effort required for individual project tasks
Participates in formal and informal training to continuously develop technical capabilities and project management skill set
Specific to the Business - Ensures approved business cases exist for executive sponsored programs.
Manages risks, issues, decisions and scope changes.
Applies deep functional knowledge (e.g., business objectives, operating model, cross-functional macro processes) across Marketing, IT, Data, and other business units to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse stakeholders such as internal customers, third-party vendors, and senior/executive management.