Project Manager I - Strategy Execution

Stop & Shop • Quincy, MA

22d • Hybrid

About The Position

Here at Stop & Shop, we've been serving our customers and neighborhoods for more than a century. A lot has changed in that time, but one thing hasn't: Stop & Shop is a place where everyone can thrive and feel like they're part of family. Our more than 50,000 associates enjoy competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and discounts to support professional and personal journeys and flexibility that fits their lives. We invite you to pull up a seat and discover the ways you can make an impact. There's always room at our table! The Manager of Strategy Execution leads large-scale, complex, and high-risk strategic projects and programs. Combining strategic insight with strong project management capabilities, this role ensures the successful delivery of initiatives within defined scope, timeline, and budget. The manager is accountable for delivering measurable business value and meeting the expectations of executive stakeholders. This role serves as a strategic partner to brand leadership, helping to shape project approaches while offering transparency, guidance, feedback, and accountability to ensure alignment with strategic objectives. The Manager I supports the Stop & Shop organization and its leadership by driving multiple high-impact projects aimed at enhancing brand performance and improving ways of working.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field or equivalent professional work experience/certification
• 3-5 years' experience leading project work and/or teams
• Experience leading and enabling capabilities/features/functionality within project management software
• Demonstrated experience driving business vision and strategy and helping create strategic roadmaps
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and building influence across internal teams, without formal authority
• Strong communication skills both verbal and writing, bridge builder
• Ability to understand new concepts quickly and work in a fast-paced dynamic work environment
• Excellent planning, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, time management, presentation, verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Engages with the strategy team, Project Managers, Business Leads, Subject Matter Experts, Executive Sponsors and project teams to establish baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, budget and resources
• Works with the business leads and executive sponsors to ensure alignment of project / program scope and overarching Stop & Shop and ADUSA strategy.
• Participates in development of the strategic project governance, obtains stakeholder approval, and manages scope changes over the duration of the projects
• Participates in the development of the project governance, working with the business to develop, obtain stakeholder approval, and ensure information remains current and teams are held accountable thus enforcing the Stop & Shop and ADUSA governance discipline
• Develops and maintains project plans for each project / program within PPM tool for Stop & Shop strategic managed initiatives, adhering to the standard format and at the proper level of detail to adequately track and report on progress
• Develops and maintains risk/assumptions/issues/dependencies for each initiative to appropriately track project/programs actions, issues, and risks to resolution / mitigation
• Develops consolidated, standard, and accurate initiative status reporting, as per the defined schedule, that provides transparency to the project / program progress and any issues or risks that could have a negative impact
• Identifies and engages in opportunities to further project management skill set and shares knowledge across the broader team
• Provides clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Effectively identifies and manages day-to-day priorities to support the demands of the business
• Facilitates meetings in a professional and efficient manner, demonstrating best practices for meeting management and applying Stop & Shop behaviors
• Provides project teams with meeting agendas, recaps, key decisions, and next steps
• Acts as objective party, challenging, when necessary, to provide transparency to project stakeholders
• Has the foresight to understand impacts of change and decisions beyond the immediate results
• Facilitates dialogue between business stakeholders in order to resolve conflict
• Identifies and escalates critical issues and risks to project sponsors or business leads in a timely manner in order to facilitate a mitigation plan
• Manage and maintain all project documents within the project's SharePoint
• Liaises with Organizational Effectiveness teams to develop and implement change management strategies and plans that maximize employee adoption and usage and minimize resistance
• Supports special projects to facilitate the success and technical maturity of the Stop & Shop strategy execution team
• Works closely with broader Stop & Shop and ADUSA Strategy Team, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to engage

Benefits

• Culture committed to celebrating diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Comprehensive benefits
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth
• Associate discounts
• Team of associates dedicated to serving our local customers and supporting our communities
• Flexible, hybrid work environment with three days a week at our Quincy Corporate office and the remaining days working remotely

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees