IT Program Manager

Carter’s, Inc. is the largest branded marketer in North America of apparel exclusively for babies and young children. The Company owns the Carter’s and OshKosh B’gosh brands, two of the most recognized brands in the marketplace. These brands are sold in leading department stores, national chains, and specialty retailers domestically and internationally. They are also sold through more than 1,000 Company-operated stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico and online at www.carters.com, www.oshkosh.com, www.cartersoshkosh.ca, and www.carters.com.mx. The Company’s Child of Mine brand is available at Walmart, its Just One You brand is available at Target, and its Simple Joys brand is available on Amazon. The Company also owns Skip Hop, a global lifestyle brand for families with young children. Carter’s is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Additional information may be found at www.carters.com.

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Looking for your next leadership opportunity in IT? Carter's is hiring an IT Program Manager!

In this role, you will lead Carter’s IT strategic programs that enable business opportunities. Ideally, you will provide overall program leadership, guidance, and manages requirements and scope of the program. Leverage the expertise of the project managers and specialists from each functional team to ensure successful delivery of the solution, given the project constraints around committed timing and budget. 

• Define and lead strategy, implementation, operational planning/excellence, establishment, execution, and evaluation of multifaceted and cross-functional programs

• Develop and manage program operating costs, requests budget allocation and reallocations to ensure our programs are within budget

• Incorporate industry best practices, conduct internal and external benchmarking and establish standards, key measures, and metrics

• Push for Integration and alignment with other processes and solutions

• Lead organizational change management, defines roles and responsibilities, communications, compliance, solutions adoption, and training

• Support executive decision-making, reports program and implementation status, identify skill gaps and initiate activities to close the gaps

• Relay your strong understanding of the wider objectives of the program

• Organize project teams comprising internal and external technical and functional experts based on budget, scope, and timeline

We’d Love to hear from you if:

• Effective communication with high-level management.

• Understanding of required technical and business requirements.

• Effective "consultative" and influential approach, combined with an action-oriented passion for speed.

• Successfully managed a large IT program.

• Lead and evaluate project managers and other staff

• Experience and willingness to work with a global team to leverage that comes with global diversity.

• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead to change.

• 7-10 or more years of demonstrated IT-related project/program management experience

Assorted duties and responsibilities:

• Develops program budgets and forecasts, and serves as finance liaison to functional managers.

• Ensure that all financial guidelines, rates, schedules, and formats are adhered to.

• Strong technical orientation.  Able to extract data and look at it through multiple viewpoints, for analysis.

• Perform ad-hoc analysis and provide recommendations for process improvements within the work area to management resulting in a reduction of expenditures.

OUR Team Members:

• Lead Courageously: Have a strong sense of personal values that align with our Company values

• Collaborates Broadly: Build cooperation, trust, and thrive in a consensus driven environment

• Customer Focus: Proactively seek opportunities to leverage data and fact-based insights to serve customers and/or internal clients

• Drive Growth: Set aggressive goals and implement plans precisely

• Cultivates Innovation:  Respectfully challenge the "we’ve always done it this way" mentality and explore new ways to achieve desired outcomes

Make a career at Carter’s:

• Career Development: Success starts from within, and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carter’s University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more, we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.

NOTE:  This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.

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Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.