Senior Analyst – Project Management

Senior Analyst – Project Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience including project management work
• Solid knowledge of project management principles and concepts
• Proficient with project management tools
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, critical thinking, presentation, influencing, and relationship management skills
• Effective team building skills
• Solid business operations knowledge including understanding the function’s value chain and market conditions strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads workstreams within a larger sized project and/or leads smaller sized to moderately complex projects.
• Owns or contributes to defining the business case with input from stakeholders. Identifies and gains agreement on project objectives, scope, timing, and resources.
• Plans activities/tasks that will deliver the desired results and oversees day-to-day work and monitoring of progress towards goals.
• Conducts project meetings and prepares regular reports to communicate the status of projects to stakeholders within and beyond the project team.
• Escalates and works to resolve issues that serve as roadblocks and/or place project objectives at risk. Identifies and provides visibility into trade-offs between options, while identifying recommended approach.
• In addition to project management, may also perform some of the work defined in the project roles and responsibilities.
• Performs project close-out steps to include identifying lessons learned/best practices to inform the success of future projects.
• Applies continuous improvement methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle.
• Provides guidance to less experienced staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management certification preferred