Job Responsibilities:

• Lead projects/teams including creation and management of project plans in alignment with overall program goals.
• Monitor and manage the coordination of activities within a team, implement policies and execute plans.
• Proactively anticipate and understand concerns/issues delays in the project and develop risk assessment and contingency plans.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment between multiple teams.
• Ensure all projects and tasks are executed within predefined timelines and budgets in compliance with all applicable standards & regulations.
• Mentor and guide team members and ensure they have all the resources required, to complete their assigned tasks.
• Engage in hiring, performance management, and other people processes.

Manager - Transport Services

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in business administration, computer science, data science, information science, or related field.

Minimum Experience:

• 5+ years of IT experience including experience managing at least 1-2 people preferred.
• Extensive experience leading projects/processes end to end including resource and vendor management, and communication and collaboration with internal cross-functional teams and external partners preferred.
• Proven performance in earlier role/comparable role.

Senior Manager - Transport Services

Minimum Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, data science, information science or related field required.
• Master's degree preferred.

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum requirement: Eight (8) progressive years of IT experience with experience managing small/mid-size teams.
• Experience leading complex projects/delivery in terms of resources, vendors and budgets.
• Experience managing teams in a supervisory/ leadership capacity.
• Proven performance in earlier role/comparable role.

Special Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Able to draw insights from different sets of data and quickly understand why issues are happening.
• Solves problems quickly by identifying the right causes.
• Encourages others to see the opportunities ahead amidst changing circumstances even when the details have not been finalized.
• Can present/facilitate independently in senior-level meetings. Presents information as a structured story and anticipates questions well.
• Addresses difficult questions and challenges effectively.
• Able to effectively influence others using facts and logic.
• Keeps teams energized and focused on high-quality results.
• Thinks long-term in building and executing metrics-driven plans and stretch goals for St. Jude.
• Builds structures and processes with clear lines of authority and accountability so teams know what they are empowered and accountable to do.
• Proactively engages with customers to seek feedback and suggestions to deliver high quality service within own area.
• Executes new approaches to improve customer systems and processes.
• Independently seeks out and addresses complex customer needs.
• Thinks holistically and plans for interdependencies and impact of work and processes with other teams within and outside of IT.
• Always focused on quality, costs, sustainability from a complete ownership mindset and approach.
• Demonstrates a strong collaborative style with emotional empathy and is able to work/ negotiate through challenging situations.
• Able to deliver results through others by setting stretch goals and holding them accountable.
• Coaches team members with concrete feedback and improvement ideas, including addressing employee relations concerns.
• Explores opportunities for development of direct reports that makes their work enriching, empowers them, and stretches their growth in lateral areas.
• Develops breadth of expertise across multiple technical areas within IT.
• Directs delivery by technically diverse teams to support business outcomes.
• Is able to adapt delivery to address specific functional/business requirements.
• Engages with vendor teams based on understanding of vendor management processes and scope.
• Drives execution of deliverables by vendor teams with an understanding of vendor contracts and escalates suitably.

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