Sr R&D Project Manager- Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina
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About the job
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.
As a Sr R&D Project Manager, you will:
- 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.
Required qualifications
- 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.
Additional competencies, knowledge and skills
- 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.
World-class benefits
Highlights include...
- 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.
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Additional Information:
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