IS Project Manager Mcdonald's
Chicago, IL

Job Description

McDonald's is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries and billions of customers served each year. As the global leader in the food service industry, we have a legacy of innovation and hard work that continues to drive us to build an even better McDonald's. Today, we are growing with velocity and are focused on modernizing experiences while delivering incredible value and quality in the food we serve.

Could you be our next Global Project Manager?

With 100+ markets, McDonald's Global is focused on creating a frictionless, personalized experience for the over 70 million customers served every single day. Our Global team, who is based out of Thornleigh, is at the forefront of technology to ensure our McDonald's business is moving at pace to match our ever changing customer needs. The projects being delivered encompass customer facing, restaurant and business support system technologies.

How comfortable are you with being uncomfortable?

This project management role will see you delivering innovation for restaurant based technology to a large number of markets, ensuring delivery to plan to enable market buy-in for new and untested concepts. Whilst not an easy brief, it is an opportunity for a driven individual to provide their wealth of experience to drive quality outcomes and a project manager who has demonstrated success in delivering technology solutions.

* Maintain initiative roadmap, schedule, and dependency relationships.
* Create frequent project communications.
* Conduct regular meetings with initiative project managers & cross-functional teams.
* Ensure Global Project Teams technical delivery matches market expectations
* Proactively manage risks and issues across project team
* Align with other project managers and team leads to ensure consistency of processes, critical issues, and reporting
* Project budget creation, tracking, and reporting
* Conference calls with various global stakeholders
* Scoping and prioritizing activities based on business and customer impact
* Translating strategy into detailed requirements
* Managing project tasks, including feature backlog management, sprint planning and user story management
* Developing strategy and creating buy-in for the project vision with multiple stakeholder groups
* Working closely with varied internal, external, local and Global teams to deliver with quick 'time-to-market