Futures start here. Where first steps, new friendships, and confident learners are born. At KinderCare Learning Companies, the first and only early childhood education provider recognized with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, we offer a variety of early education and child care options for families. We pave the way for their lifelong learning journey ahead. And we want you to join us in shaping a future we can all be proud to share—in neighborhoods, at work, and in schools nationwide.
At KinderCare Learning Companies, you'll use your skills and expertise to support the work (and fun) that happens in our sites and centers every day. From marketers and strategists to financial analysts and data engineers, and so much more, we're all passionate about crafting a world where children, families, and organizations can thrive.
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Growth Delivery is the project management function at KinderCare that focuses on the cross functional delivery of new and acquired KinderCare and KinderCare for Employer centers and Crème schools to our fleet. We focus on ensuring positive experiences to families, teachers and staff as we expand KinderCare's footprint through Delivery of Growth Delivery's products:
- New center openings (and New Center Conversions)
- Acquisitions
- Client partnership centers (New Centers and Transition centers)
- Special projects
As a key member of the Growth Delivery team, the Principal Project Manager (PPM) works to define delivery frameworks, processes and governance to ensure products contribute positive business value and meet agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality business results.
The PPM leads projects within the KinderCare Project Management Framework (Agile/Scrum, Iterative, and Waterfall) from initiation through project close while providing methodology guidance and expertise on project execution.
The PPM inspires the team with a positive and collaborative leadership style and engages with executives, collaborators, and partners throughout all levels of the company to deliver assigned projects at the highest level of excellence.
When you join our team as Principal Project Manager, you will:
- Act as a nexus between partners to ensure a clear definition of products, bringing cross functional groups along
- Lead and develop governance across function to develop Growth Delivery products to ensure clear definition, goals and metrics
- Define governance and work across workstreams and programs to ensure processes deliver against product definitions
- Define intake processes and create easy to use common tools
- Lead ongoing delivery of products through workstreams
- Create reporting and dashboards to summarize workflows across projects and report on progress to senior leadership
- Lead project team members in achieving desired outcomes of deliverables
- Manage project dependencies, milestones, and critical path
- Manage and report project performance, task delegation and stakeholder management
- Control and track changes to scope, schedule, quality/experience, issues, and risk
- Elevate risks and issues to leadership level as needed
- Provide weekly status reports in order to ensure successful delivery
- Mentor and guide partners and project teams, fostering a collaborative team environment that encourages innovation and high performance.
Qualifications:
- Ability to influence and effectively create solutions using cross functional expertise to define products and tools
- Highly collaborative working style and ability to listen, understand, influence, and prioritize competing needs
- Excellent planning, organizational and analytical skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Outstanding communication skills, written and verbal
- Excellent judgment, ability to think critically and strong decision-making skills, including risk evaluation, outcomes assessment and solutions determination in a timely manner
- Adaptable and able to work amid ambiguity and proactively anticipate and solve problems
Our benefits meet you where you are. We're here to help our employees navigate the integration of work and life:
- Know your whole family is supported with discounted child care benefits.
- Breathe easy with medical, dental, and vision benefits for your family (and pets, too!).
- Feel supported in your mental health and personal growth with employee assistance programs.
- Feel great and thrive with access to health and wellness programs, unlimited paid time off and discounts for work necessities, such as cell phones.
- ... and much more.
We operate research-backed, accredited, and customizable programs in more than 2,000 sites and centers across 40 states and the District of Columbia. As we expand, we're matching the needs of more and more families, dynamic work environments, and diverse communities from coast to coast. Because we believe every family deserves access to high-quality child care, no matter who they are or where they live. Every day, you'll help bring this mission to life by building community and delivering exceptional experiences. And if you're anything like us, you'll come for the work, and stay for the people.
KinderCare Learning Companies is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.
Primary Location : Dallas, Texas, United States
Job : Corporate