Senior IT Project Manager | Customer Data Platform (CDP)
About The Position
The Senior IT Project Manager leads planning and execution for projects and financial or budgeting activities, with responsibility for delivery of The Home Depot’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) program, including identity, audience building, and activation to advertising and personalization platforms. The role coordinates across stakeholders and third-party partners and is accountable for project outcomes within agreed timelines and budgets. It maintains status reporting and proactively manages risks and issues. Financial responsibilities include monitoring budgets, tracking labor and capital spend, and supporting variance analysis. The position leads project planning and execution across multiple initiatives, portfolios, or cross-functional technology efforts. It blends Agile, Waterfall, and other delivery approaches as appropriate; supports quarterly planning and prioritization; manages dependencies, compliance requirements, risks, issues, and decisions; and communicates project information to technical and business stakeholders, including senior leadership. The role also runs weekly program and engineering meetings, challenges timelines with Engineering, Legal, and vendor partners, and reports status reflecting current blockers. The Senior IT Project Manager leads fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders, including labor, capital spend, non-labor forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis. The position may participate in vendor selection and onboarding and may support purchase orders and invoicing for third-party vendors. It typically reports to the Manager of Delivery Management and has no direct reports. Overnight travel is typically less than 10% of the time.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of work experience.
- At least 5 years working in a marketing, advertising, or retail media program management role.
- Experience managing cross-functional software development initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job, or knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completion of such a program.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to communicate complex or technical ideas and processes clearly to diverse audiences; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Experience with project plans and development, and ability to apply Agile, Waterfall, or other delivery methodologies.
- Ability to communicate with technical and business audiences at different organizational levels.
Nice To Haves
- Experience delivering a Customer Data Platform such as GrowthLoop, Amperity, Segment, or Tealium, or a comparable data and MarTech platform.
- Working knowledge of audience segmentation, identity resolution, data pipelines, and activation to ad platforms.
- Experience working with Legal and privacy teams on data use requirements.
- Ability to ask engineers follow-up questions and explain their answers to business partners.
- Working knowledge of project management software such as Smartsheet, Monday.com, or Confluence.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of one or more projects within agreed timelines and budgets, including CDP work involving identity, audience building, and activation to advertising and personalization platforms.
- Lead project scoping, planning, coordination, and definition of deliverables, work breakdown structures, and milestones across multiple projects or initiatives.
- Create, monitor, track, and adjust project plans based on critical milestones.
- Support and execute quarterly planning and prioritization.
- Identify and align dependencies and compliance requirements, and proactively manage project risks and issues through mitigation plans.
- Own program risk, issue, and decision logs; run weekly program and engineering meetings with agendas and notes.
- Develop and execute change-management and project communication plans for technology teams and stakeholders.
- Communicate project information and status to audiences across business and technical teams, portfolios, and senior leadership.
- Challenge timelines with Engineering, Legal, and vendor partners, and report status that reflects open blockers.
- Apply lessons learned to future initiatives and identify barriers to successful outcomes, partnering with leadership to address them.
- Lead fiscal management and reporting, including labor, capital spend, non-labor forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis.
- Participate in vendor selection and onboarding in accordance with company policy, and support purchase orders and invoicing for third-party vendors when involved.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
