Delivery Manager - Merchandise

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks Eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. 

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Delivery Managers serve as the Chief Scrum Master across all delivery teams within a product. They are responsible for the overall solution delivery and support of large-scale programs with complex integrations. Delivery Managers are responsible for managing the communication across program stakeholders, defining mitigation strategies to remediate risks & issues, and assisting teams to ensure that the value being delivered aligns to the product vision defined by product managers.

The Delivery Manager will be responsible and accountable for organizing and directing large-scale, technical programs with multiple internal and external stakeholders. This role is responsible for planning and governance and for overseeing the successful implementation of the program using a hybrid Waterfall/Agile approach that combines a structured project planning approach and a flexible, iterative approach to software development.  

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

 

ROLE

●      Allocates resources and provides teams with necessary support to address impediments.

●      Manages delivery team metrics to evaluate progress against delivery milestones (i.e. releases).

●      Aggregates individual product team status into portfolio-level risks, assumptions, and interdependencies.

●      Reports on overall delivery status to program leadership and various stakeholders.

●      Establishes and organizes application development plans that align with the goals and strategies.

●      Revises standards in response to change.

●      Understands Resource Management and the value of the resource management; and may practice one or more behaviors associated with the skill.

●      Investigates, manages, and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

●      Works with stakeholders to manage scope, create a roadmap, program timeline, project plans, and delivery milestones.

●      Works with Product Managers and Product Owners to document impacted business processes.

●      Drives tactical day-to-day delivery process, including removing impediments that negatively impact productivity or block the