IT Program Manager

Job Title: IT Program Manager

Pay Range: $111,399 to $167,098

Savers Benefits

Geographic & job eligibility rules may apply 

Healthcare Plans  

• Comprehensive coverage (medical/dental/vision) at a reasonable cost 
• Specialized health programs – Improve wellness (quit smoking, counseling, diabetes management, chronic joint pain)  

Paid Time Off

• Sick Pay

• Vacation Pay - Approximately 2 weeks

• 6 paid holidays plus 1 to 2 additional floating holidays

 Team member discounts 

• Up to 50% off store merchandise  

Flexible spending accounts  

• Use pre-tax dollars for eligible health and day care expenses  

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)  

• A whole suite of free tools and resources to manage life’s challenges and maintain a healthy work-life balance 

Retirement Plan

• A 401k plan with generous company matching contributions to assist you in saving for a secure financial future.

Life insurance

• Company provided peace of mind and the option to purchase a supplemental plan 

 Additional Benefits 

• Annual Bonus
• Performance Merit Increases  
• Disability Insurance  
• Parental Leave    

Who we are:

As one of the largest for-profit thrift operators in the United States, Canada and Australia for value priced pre-owned clothing, accessories and household goods, our mission is to champion reuse and inspire a future where secondhand is second nature. We supply our stores with gently-used, one-of-a-kind items that have been donated by the community to local nonprofit organizations. We purchase these items directly from our nonprofit partners, redirecting billions of pounds of used items away from landfills and on to our store racks and shelves for reuse, and providing our partners with valuable funding for their community-based programs and services. You’ll often hear us say that we are “Thrift Proud.” It’s the millions of loyal customers who visit our 300+ stores and our more than 22,000 team members that make it possible. Learn more about the Savers® family of thrift stores, our impact, and the #ThriftProud movement at savers.com.

Our brands are Savers (in the U.S.), 2nd Ave (in the U.S.), Value Village (in the U.S. and Canada), Unique (in the U.S.), Village des Valeurs (in Quebec) and Savers Australia.

What you can expect:

• The opportunity to celebrate uniqueness. We are made up of people from many different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, all with something special to contribute.
• To work in a purpose-driven company, with a business model that people love for our impact on both the planet and local communities.
• An investment in the career path interests of our people. With our aggressive store expansion plans, we recognize the importance of the continued growth and development of our team members.

What you get:

Comprehensive onboarding and training from day one. In-house expertise! Our training department / Savers University develops and delivers robust training to every team member across our organization — from new hires to senior executives. We develop around 90% of our training internally, and partner with a variety of renowned providers to supplement our offerings.

What you’ll be working on:

The IT Program Manager is a critical member of the Solution Delivery team. You will be responsible for delivering high impact projects and solutions for technology and the business. Your responsibilities will range from aligning strategy and vision, to driving business and system requirements, to managing the overall project across multiple, often cross functional, teams.

As a Program Manager you will bring considerable technical, functional, and product expertise to deliver effective solutions within key lines of business, with specific focus or experience around managing enterprise solutions for IT across infrastructure, applications, endpoint, cloud technologies and engineering. We are looking for a candidate also with experience in corporate system (back office, IT, POS, CRM, ERP etc.) solutions, or equivalent. The PM will ensure strategic alignment from business and IT and drive full program lifecycle that include technology refreshes, new systems hardware and software rollouts.

We are looking for passionate experienced advocates with strong business acumen and technical skills, to drive and deploy new solutions helping to accelerate our digital transformation. The role will utilize exceptional customer/partner empathy, strong program and project management skills, along with effective communication and collaboration, to successfully launch business critical solutions.

What you have:

•  Oversee groups of projects that are linked through a common organizational goal.
  • Manage programs and portfolios with multiple workstreams.
  • Integrate projects and project managers working on related workstreams.
  • Provide leadership, support and mentoring to project managers, technical teams and business systems analysts.
  • Drives decisions based on both appropriate technical solutions and business priorities.
• Partner with technical, business and customer stakeholders to
  • Identify and recommend solutions to address business needs.
  • Define product objectives and requirements.
  • Prioritize requirements and define scope to meet business needs in a timely manner.
  • Coordinate resources across multiple workstreams.
• Work with or serve as a product owner in Agile/SCRUM development processes, groom the backlog, and lead sprint planning.
  • Manage each release through the release process.
• Develop, maintain, and distribute (as appropriate) standard project management deliverables for the successful launch of a new product and serves, including implementation plan, project budget and variances, issues & action items log, meeting minutes, risk assessment and contingencies.
  • Engage in regular, effective communication with leadership, stakeholders, and internal team members.
  • Accountable for on-time product delivery, product quality, cost, and operations.
• Lead vendor selection process (including RFPs and Pricing) and manage against deliverables (including SOWs, change management, approval of deliverables)
  • Create and maintain scorecards to track vendor and partner performance.
• Partner with internal and external teams to deliver on time and with the quality required.
• Ensure all business systems, IT systems and partner platforms are in place and that the business solution and technical design accurately represents the requirements.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Gain a clear understanding of the business needs and goals.
• Clearly articulate the program scope.
• Communicate the big picture or vision to everyone consistently.
• Be proactive in resolving challenges while maintaining the ability to work with others.
• Ability to negotiate and manage without authority.
• Ability to set realistic goals and timelines, advocating for simplicity and common sense.
• Delegate as necessary.
• Experience delivering enterprise scale infrastructure, server, cloud and engineering solutions.
• Adaptable to a wide range of complex systems, technologies and architectures.
   

Minimum Required Education, Training and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of progressive IT experience
• 10+ years Program/Project management
• Advanced knowledge around project management platforms (ie. MS Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Asana)
• Project Management Professional Certification preferred
• Scrum Master Certification preferred

FLSA: Exempt

Travel: 10% or less

Work Type/Location: Remote, USA

Savers is an E-Verify employer