Project Manager 5

Title: Project Manager 5

Location: Beaverton, OR

• Duration: 1 Year Contract

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

What You Will Do

The nature of the work is focused on defining tools and processes to support overall organizational excellence in program/project management and process definition.

• Manages projects with a duration of typically 12 months or less, budget 1 mnl, multiple business functions, with a regional scope.
• Project Scope Management: Works with project sponsors and customers to define; business benefits, business requirements, and project scope. Manages change control against scope and it's impacts to time, cost, and quality
• Project Time Management: Defines project schedule, manages task assignments, tracks work against schedule
• Project Cost Management: Facilitates level of effort estimating and develops asset acquisition requirements; tracks and reports on actuals against forecast
• Project Quality Mgmt: Provides guidance and direction on project methodology and best practices to Nike's standard project methodology; Defines and manages project success/delivery criteria and monitors and reports on the realization of project success against criteria set 
• Project Risk Management - Defines risk management plan, analyzes risk for criticality, probability, and impact; Develops risk mitigation strategies, assigns owner and actions

What You Will Bring

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 10 years directly relevant experience.
• Experience working with large enterprises, previous Nike experience a plus but not required
• Will be working with Nike Stakeholders across all orgs, must have strong communication skills
• Need a strong PM that can gather requirements, present status updates, and manage a project with vendors end-to-end