Sr R&D Project Manager

SAS • Cary HQ, NC

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior R&D Project Manager manages the development and implementation process of the company’s R&D programs involving departmental or corporate-wide cross-functional teams from inception through delivery. This person will coordinate program-level goals and alignment across multiple supporting project teams to efficiently and effectively implement an integrated solution. The Senior R&D Project Manager plans and directs business and technical corporate activities ensuring functioning and/or completion of the programs on schedule which meet or exceed project stakeholder expectations, including agreed-to scope and quality. This person may function as a project manager for one or more R&D projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field, preferably in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• A minimum of eight years of technical experience in project management.
• Has experience with project and program management tooling and workflows, particularly Jira and Confluence and Microsoft tools (e.g., Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Communication: Conveying information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listening actively to others.
• Driving Execution: Translating strategic priorities into operational reality; aligning communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
• Influencing: Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes.
• Excellent competence in program management for assigned functional area
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent negotiation and organizational abilities
• Excellent decision-making ability
• Excellent risk management skills
• Strong strategic thinking skills
• Strong leadership skills
• May serve as a coach to their peers and program teams across a variety of methodologies and processes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives and makes recommendations.
• Communicates strategic intentions to all supporting project teams and ensures alignment of the project teams to the program-level goals.
• Identifies and monitors key measures related to stakeholder satisfaction and objectives attainment.
• Completes deadline-driven, team-based programs.
• Responsible for facilitating overall program business objectives, goals and technical requirements.
• Works with team and stakeholders to define program scope and goals.
• Plans, prioritizes, implements and adjusts delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual program requirements per consultation with program stakeholders.
• Negotiates resource needs and coordinates resources across business and technical groups for assigned programs including both domestic and international resources.
• Maintains program documentation such as program plans, schedules and status reports.
• Coordinates, communicates, and facilitates activities between team members and stakeholders to keep program on schedule and manages conflict.
• Coordinates risk mitigation activity and escalates as appropriate.
• Manages program scope and expectations.
• Identifies and constructively negotiates conflict or areas of high risk.
• Helps establish and maintain program operational rhythms, including intake processes, execution standards, and reporting cadences
• Monitor program health through metrics, dashboards, and reviews, proactively identifying operational gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Leverages methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate program delivery.
• Acts as central point of contact for all business and technical issues and interfaces with interested parties across the Company to ensure program success.
• Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS.
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees