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R&D Project Manager - Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina

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About the job

The PPM team is looking for a R&D Project Manager. This position supports products in the Global Engineering, Foundation Division portfolio. Within the ecosystem of our PPM community, this role will be responsible for all aspects of project management for their assignments which include planning and estimation, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of specific projects while ensuring consistency with the division’s overall strategy, commitments, and goals.

As a R&D Project Manager, you will:

• Support R&D Engineering teams in completing deadline-driven, team-based projects. 
• Facilitate overall project objectives, goals and project requirements. 
• Work with teams and stakeholders to define project scope and goals.
• Plan, prioritize, implement and adjust delivery schedule, scope, resourcing, and quality, based on individual project requirements per consultation with project stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation such as project plans, schedules, issue lists, risk registers, and status reports.
• Coordinate, communicate, and facilitate activities between team members and stakeholders to keep projects on schedule and manage competing priorities.
• Coordinate risk mitigation activity and escalate as appropriate.
• Manage project scope and expectations. 
• Identify and constructively negotiate conflicts or areas of high risk.
• Leverage fundamental project management and Agile methodologies, processes, project tools, and best practices to accelerate project delivery.
• Identifies project dependencies and stakeholder influences, working jointly with other organizations who share responsibility for delivery of final product. 
• Acts as central point of contact and interfaces with interested parties across the Company, such as Legal, Marketing and Technical Support to ensure project success.
• Works with management to identify resource needs and coordinate technical resources for assigned projects, including both domestic and international resources.
• Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
• 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 
• 5 years of project management experience in software development
• Experience with R&D project management
• 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.
• Decision Making: Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information; choosing the best course of action by establishing clear decision criteria, generating and evaluating alternatives, and making timely decisions; taking action that is consistent with available facts and constraints and optimizes probable consequences.
• Influencing: Using effective involvement and persuasion strategies to gain acceptance of ideas and commitment to actions that support specific work outcomes.
• Excellent competence in project management fundamentals 
• 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 
• Experience with the Agile methodology strongly preferred 

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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