AVPD Program Management

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The AVPD, Program Management identifies, develops, prioritizes and supports strategic business opportunities to drive operational efficiencies and effectiveness across the organization, with direct impact on the bottom line. Additionally, you will leverage complex relationship management and a deep knowledge and understanding of our culture. You will also be responsible for communicating and influencing at all levels of the organization, requiring executive presence and institutional knowledge, grounded in experience with the TJX business model.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

• Leads, influences and delivers collaborative work with all business functions within the division, in pursuit of process improvement, operational efficiencies and business driving strategies, while preserving our business model and culture.
• Develops comprehensive project plans with all required parties; provides oversight and direction during all phases of the project, including implementation and sustaining change.
• Builds and maintains effective partnerships at all levels (including high level executives) to deliver scalable, optimized capabilities and solutions.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the business model, and financial and operational activities across all US divisions;
• Understands the nuance in both competitive landscape and internal priorities
• Interprets impact of initiatives on the broader business.
• Manages multiple complex, simultaneous, interrelated and cross-functional initiatives from design to final delivery. Monitors, identifies and seeks resolution of issues.
• Provides consistent communication and updates on projects as appropriate
• Creates and delivers consistent messaging to stakeholders, senior leadership and executives regarding potential impacts of projects.
• Identifies and helps secure commitment from internal and external stakeholders.
• Works effectively both at a strategic and tactical level.
• Ability to establish self as a credible business partner with broad range of business functions, and to effectively navigate the complex intersections.
• Demonstrates resourcefulness and creativity in solution finding, conflict management skill, tenacity and resilience.
• Develops and facilitates creation of comprehensive plans with all required parties to deliver agreed strategic programs, including refined milestones, detailed tasks, dates and owners.
• Facilitates all phases, including support and influence on implementation and sustaining change through change leadership and change management practices.
• Maintains, owns, evaluates and revises workplan, risks & issue log, status updates, etc. throughout each project. Initiates and leads status meetings to track progress against the workplan/milestones and identify and escalate any key risks.
• Special projects as assigned or directed.

Job Knowledge:

Minimum formal education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Minimum job skills required to perform this job:

• Ability to quickly establish self as a strategic business partner with a broad range of business functions and stakeholders
• Well-developed understanding of business model, financial and operational activities within Marmaxx
• Strong communication, presentation, planning and organizing skill
• Experience with / certification in project management methodology and tools
• Conflict management skill; demonstrated tenacity and resilience
• Ability to work effectively both at a strategic and tactical level
• Ability to lead, motivate and influence in a highly matrixed organization

Minimum experience required to perform this job:

• 10 years project management experience

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