Senior Agile Project Manager

New Balance Athletics - Brighton, MI

Full-time - Senior

Brighton, MI

Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers

About the position

The Senior Agile Project Manager at New Balance plays a crucial role in guiding, managing, and delivering projects that contribute to the overall growth of the business. This position requires a blend of project management skills and agile execution to implement best-fit methodologies while supporting the global strategy and long-term goals of New Balance. The role involves collaboration with vendors and various program roles to ensure successful delivery of critical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall project management to identified projects/workstreams, promoting an agile mindset and culture.
• Serve as Scrum Master and coach to facilitate best-in-class agile practices.
• Schedule and facilitate necessary meetings and track related action items.
• Pursue iterative process improvements and foster collaborative conversations.
• Promote consistent estimating practices for predictability and planning.
• Work with outside vendors and internal teams to manage project activities and provide governance.
• Proactively identify and manage project risks, dependencies, and issues, escalating as necessary.
• Provide RAG state and status updates to business and IT stakeholders.
• Track project budget and invoice expenditures as needed.
• Contribute to the NB IT PM/Agile center of excellence.

Requirements

• B.S. degree with 7+ years of experience in a relevant technical field.
• 3+ years of experience as an Agile Project Manager in IT or a similar field.
• Understanding of agile culture, principles, and scrum/kanban methodology; Scrum Master certification preferred.
• Hands-on experience with the software development life cycle.
• Exposure to relevant domain areas such as product, merchandising, retail, marketing, manufacturing, or supply chain preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and work independently.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in product, merchandising, retail, marketing, manufacturing, or supply chain domains.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance options.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and 401K.
• Tuition reimbursement and online learning opportunities.
• $100 monthly student loan support.
• Yearly $1,000 lifestyle reimbursement.
• 4 weeks of vacation and 12 holidays.
• Generous parental leave.