New Grad (MBA) - Business Transformation & Automation - Project Manager
University Summary:
VMware recognizes that today’s students are tomorrow’s trailblazers and we value the opportunity to benefit from your fresh perspective. If you thrive in an open, innovative, technology-driven culture, VMware could be the place for you! You will be exposed to a wide range of software platform technologies that are utilized by customers all over the world.
Business Summary:
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable our more than 350,000 enterprise and SMB customers to thrive in the Cloud Era. A pioneer in the use of virtualization and automation technologies, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace.
Our team of 30,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide is committed to building a community where great people want to work long term by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, teamwork, active learning and giving back. If you are ready to accelerate and innovate, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today.
Job Role and Responsibilities:
This role would be expected to perform the following responsibilities-
- Planning & Strategy
- Oversee all aspects of project by providing senior guidance in the construction of project teams, charters, project plans, contingencies, success metrics and ROI measurements
- Work cross-functionally to establish and manage appropriate team structure for successful delivery across impacted organizations.
- Drive the formulation of scope/capabilities most impactful to business with a clear roadmap of incremental features to be implemented over a defined time period.
- Project Execution
- Well-grounded in agile practices, having clear understanding of the roles applicable in executing an agile program, iterative implementations and the phases it goes through.
- Comfortable with the use of tools employed for agile programs like JIRA/Rally, Confluence, Slack etc. for program management.
- Strong understanding of Epics and user story management, tracking and reporting.
- Drive definition of business solution concepts in partnership with IT and business constituents
- Align program with other VMware initiatives and manage cross project dependencies
- Recommend and manage the alignment and prioritization of initiatives based on business strategy and simplification to meet key objectives
- Drive cross functional implementation of policies and procedures
- Stakeholder/Cross-Functional Team Management
- Establish a clear RACI around project roles and responsibilities.
- Manage cross-functional global teams (IT, business, 3rd party vendors, etc.) in a matrix management framework
- Ensure successful working relationships among project teams
- Create an environment of success to enable confident project execution by project team
- Represent and speak to Senior business leaders and stakeholders to ensure we are delivering strategic value across the overall program.
- Change Management & Communications
- Facilitate change management and communication planning activities through project lifecycle
- Drive regular forums to update business communities and steering committee on progress, status and issues
- Risk/Issue Management
- Foresee, manage, and raise appropriate visibility to risks and issues.
- Drive resolution of any conflicts and escalate as needed to avoid roadblocks
- Governance
- Help in establishing standards for program management (monitoring and governance) including processes, appropriate project controls, methodologies, metrics, reporting, and tools to ensure the development and use of program/project management
Required Skills:
This role will primarily be responsible for leading the definition, management and delivery of the SaaS Operational projects working with R&D, Business Operations, IT and Key Business Units across the value chain to support VMware’s growing business needs.
This role will lead key initiatives around the following areas, with demonstrated expertise required in at least three of the following processes as it pertains to the SaaS business lifecycle:
- Key Processes: Understanding of SaaS business processes, lifecycles of various enterprise entities, implementation of these within business application systems:
- Idea to Offering
- Demand to Quote
- Order to Fulfillment
- Invoice to cash
- Issue to resolution
- Record to report
- Procure to pay
- Hire to retire
This role should have experience having engaged extensively with at least 3 of the following business functions:
- Key Functions: R&D, Marketing, Field Sales, Channel Sales, Technical Services, Customer Support, Order Management, Billing Operations, Product Offer Management, Pricing Operations, Finance, AR, Revenue recognition.
This role would need to have a strong understanding of Agile project management practices with certification required, having been in positions of managing agile programs. In addition, this key player must be able to drive the overall strategy, planning and execution of key initiatives.
Preferred Skills:
- Education/Training
- BS/BA degree in Business; MBA or Masters
- Process Excellence training
- Experience
- PMO Experience of leading transformation to a SaaS Operating Model from a Perpetual Model is preferred
- Having worked in a software product company, with a strong understanding of cloud services business models for native cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
- 10+ years project related work experience
- 7+ years’ experience leading major Programs/Projects in a complex, global corporate setting
- 7+ years’ experience in a global organization
- Project Management and SDLC lifecycle experience, waterfall and agile methodologies
This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsored by VMware.
This role is available to MBA-level New Graduates only. 'New Graduate' applies to those possessing a degree level requirement with a graduation date between May 2020 and May 2021.