Project Analyst II

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and TK Maxx. With variety comes plenty of happy surprises - our environment is ever-changing, and that’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?

Project Analyst II – Merchandise Portfolio

What you’ll discover

• Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities
• Global IT Organization which collaborates across U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia
• Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment

What you’ll do

The Merchandise Portfolio Team thrives on strong relationships with our business partners and working to address their needs which supports TJX strategic initiatives and growth. In addition, the Portfolio team supports 5-7 other varying sized ARTs in solution delivery (using the SAFe development methodology) within Merchandising. On this tightly knit solution delivery team you will be constantly challenged to stretch your skillsets, challenge status quo and drive decisions. Our goal is to align the IT delivery with business strategy. We seek a motivated, talented, experienced Project Analyst who can work in an environment which will challenge you to think creatively and exhibit an agile mindset.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Supporting the Portfolio team by facilitating the team PI events
  • Coordinating the quarterly Merchandise combined PI Kick Off events
  • Defining the scope, scheduling and running the Merchandise Portfolio PI events
  • Driving continuous improvement of this process
  • Ensuring the team are on track with objectives through regular team check ins.
• Owning governance and driving delivery within Lean Portfolio Management:
  • Liaising with the Portfolio team to create the LPM backlog of work
  • Drive the prioritization of that backlog and plan the work into PIs
  • Assign owners of initiatives and drive accountability
  • Work across Merchandise to drive standardization and continuous improvement of processes.
• Support Financial Governance within the Merchandise tower
  • Coordinates budget planning submissions across all the ARTs
  • Owner of Portfolio budget submissions
  • Owner of Merchandise financial models eg. capacity model, travel tracker
  • Central point of contact for our IT Finance partners.
• Strategic Vendor Management support
  • Help define and drive continuous improvement on vendor governance.
  • Liaise with our vendors to gain better visibility of the accounts performance. Includes but not limited to; open requisitions statuses, attrition, headcount, locations, metrics.
  • Coordinate TJX/Vendor Townhalls.
  • Support management of cross ART 3rd party Statement of Works.
  • Workforce Planning is essential to making sure we have the right people and structure in place to support delivery; you will play a key role in supporting this initiative.
  • Partner with the Portfolio Principal RTE and Merchandise leadership to define the workforce strategy in order to deliver the Merchandise roadmap.
  • Provide regular visibility of the workforce make up and movements.
  • Adhoc analysis and support of the ARTs as required.

Qualifications / Skillsets (All preferred but not essential)

• 4-8 years of IT experience.
• Agile methodology experience (SAFe preferred).
• Experience with, or understanding of Lean Portfolio Management including portfolio responsibilities.
• Familiarity with the retail industry, products, & best practices.
• Evidence of building strong collaborative relationships with business customers, product managers, architecture and solution delivery partners.
• Ability to think strategically.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.

In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

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