Project Manager II

Project Manager II

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Project Management, or related field required.
• Minimum 5 years of high complexity project management experience in Business, IT or Retail/Commercial project management required.
• Project Management experience in IT, Insurance, Automotive, Commercial, and Retail Fit-Out strongly preferred.
• Agile Project Management Certification(s) and/or Scrum Certification(s) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and foster strong partnerships across business lines to efficiently work towards project goals.
• Serve as project leader and primary point of contact for low-medium complexity initiatives, following best practices based on standardized PMI Project Management Processes & Methodologies to help ensure project success.
• Effectively communicate project updates, including roadblocks and potential solutions, to key project stakeholders.
• Lead by example and coach others to follow best practices for executing Waterfall/Predictive, Agile and Hybrid projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across business lines to review, evaluate, and determine business cases for new project requests considering scope, timeline, budget, RACI matrices, SWOT analyses, and other factors.
• Facilitate receipt of required stakeholder approvals to initiate new projects.
• Create highly detailed project management plans including scope, timeline, budget, procurement, communication, and other factors to ensure alignment of project expectations with the business’s request.
• Responsible for ensuring project goals are accomplished in a timely and accurate manner according to the expectations set with the Project Owner during the project planning phase.
• Ensure open line of communication with key project stakeholders to keep them informed of project updates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Engage with, provide guidance to, and delegate work assignments to other project stakeholders to maintain team morale and keep the project on track to meet timeline, budget, and communication expectations.
• Conduct regular stakeholder meetings to formally present and review project progress towards key objectives including project scope, budget, communication, and others.
• Responsible for obtaining formal sign-off from Project Sponsor and Project Owner indicating satisfaction with the final project product and delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree a plus.
• Project Management experience in IT, Insurance, Automotive, Commercial, and Retail Fit-Out strongly preferred.