R&D Project Manager

SAS • Cary, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The PPM team is looking for a R&D Project Manager. This position supports products in the Global Engineering, Foundation Division portfolio. Within the ecosystem of our PPM community, this role will be responsible for all aspects of project management for their assignments which include planning and estimation, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of specific projects while ensuring consistency with the division’s overall strategy, commitments, and goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or a related discipline
• 5 years of project management experience in software development
• Experience with R&D project management
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the Agile methodology strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Support R&D Engineering teams in completing deadline-driven, team-based projects.
• Facilitate overall project objectives, goals and project requirements.
• Work with teams and stakeholders to define project scope and goals.
• Plan, prioritize, implement and adjust delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual project requirements per consultation with project stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports.
• Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage competing priorities.
• Coordinate risk mitigation activity and escalate as appropriate.
• Manage project scope and expectations.
• Identify and constructively negotiate conflicts or areas of high risk.
• Leverage fundamental project management and Agile methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery.
• Identifies project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivery of final product.
• Acts as central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Marketing and Technical Support to ensure project success.
• Works with management to identify resource needs and coordinate technical resources for assigned projects, including both domestic and international resources.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level