Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Requirements

• Strong planning acumen and self starter that clearly prioritizes against delivery goals
• Communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need to be effective, presents effectively to executives and cross-functional leaders
• Analytic & strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and translating those insights into action and mitigation plans
• Solid decision making skills despite ambiguous data and situations. Considers upstream and downstream operational impacts as decision inputs. Balances long-term vs. short-term objectives
• 5+ years working knowledge of and experience with project/program management
• Experience working with software development or software migration projects a plus
• Experience leading a team or directly supervising them
• Detail-oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results with very strong communication skills
• Bachelors degree or equivalent program/project management experience
• PMP Certification is a plus

Responsibilities

• Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and milestone project plans across multiple product lines
• Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions
• Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, schedule, and budget constraints
• Tracks open issues and effectively negotiate to impact decisions and trade-offs and to guide issues within internal and external groups to resolution
• Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables
• Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management
• Identifies project or product dependencies and tracks and reports on their progress if required for go live
• Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade-offs among alternatives, and uses objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations
• Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and line of sight
• Ensures that the appropriate documents exist and are broadly communicated to drive shared vision among the program teams
• Creates clearly understandable & actionable success criteria, objectives, and requirements and communicates them to the team
• Conducts and effectively facilitates project team meetings to update status, and identify and resolve issues
• Achieves quality results through strong team interaction, effective cross-team collaboration and taking ownership of the success of the initiative

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP Certification is a plus