The posting
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 3 years’ project and/or program management experience.
- A minimum of 3 years’ proven experience leading cross-functional teams, i.e.: sales/business development/operations management.
- Previous experience in a customer facing role.
- Previous experience working in a supply chain environment.
- Thoroughly understands the programmatic approach (including global) and possesses the ability to build program structure.
- Excellent understanding of financial processes with the ability to create pro forma, track project metrics, forecast future trends and manage change.
- Excellent understanding of the contract process with the ability to manage contract modifications, control the impact to a program, and take the lead for negotiations on contract scope, cost and schedule.
- Ability to work independently and aggressively track to project timelines.
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation).
- Strong MS office skills (Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc).
- Proficiency in working with project management software, i.e.: MS Project.
- Must have strong presentation and relationship building skills.
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
- Health and Wellbeing: Combined Health Insurance (Dental and Vision), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness Program
- Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Bereavement
- Additional Perks: Employee Assistance Program, Employee Discount Program, and more!
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!
THIS POSITION IS ONLY ACCEPTING APPLICANTS ALREADY LOCATED IN COSTA RICA
This position is only accepting applicants already located in Costa Rica
Project Manager
Why WWT?
World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.
Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distribution capabilities.
With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.
Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!
Brief Overview
The Project Manager is responsible for supporting the coordination of all aspects of assigned projects to meet and exceed customer expectations. Understands the programmatic approach (including global) and possesses the ability to build program structure. Incorporates lessons learned into continuous process improvement actions either within supply chain or elsewhere in the business. This position reports directly to the Regional Manager
Job Responsibilities:
- Documents and manages project scope, goals, timelines/milestones, budgets, and specific deliverables while keeping project teams highly engaged, motivated, and accountable
- Identifies and manages project risks, issues, action items, change requests and decisions including mitigation approaches and contingency plans
- Creates and manages project(s) status reports for deliverables and milestones for completeness
- Ensures that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Develops a detailed project plan to track progress
- Identifies and leads internal resources for predictive results
- Incorporates lessons learned into continuous process improvement actions either within supply chain or elsewhere in the business
- Builds high performing cross-functional teams.
- Manages World Wide Technology cross functional issues by ensuring all functions within the organization are performing to program expectations.
- Interacts with Program customers and vendors if needed.
- Conducts all business in a manner that is consistent with World Wide Technology Core Values
- Identifies, evaluates and manages project team leads.
- Compiles and presents relative data points to executive stakeholders and management
- Manages financials, metrics, service level agreements and key performance indicators.
