Senior Project Manager – Transformation
| Company | Fortune Brands |
|---|---|
| Location | Highland Park, IL, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field is required.
- Minimum of 5 years of program/project management experience inclusive in leading large, cross-functional transformations required.
- Must be able to travel up to 10%
Responsibilities
- Serve as the single accountable party for assisting in the definition, planning, and delivery of strategic transformation initiatives and ensuring the results meet the identified goals and objectives.
- Support communication efforts by enabling the design, development, delivery, and management of key transformation communications. Keep stakeholders informed.
- Leverage the structured methodology for leading change management activities; create a strategy to support adoption of transformation changes company wide.
- Assess change impacts by conducting impact analyses, assessing change readiness, and identifying key stakeholders.
- Ensure commitments are achieved within agreed schedule, cost, and resources.
- Validate financial forecasts and provide on-going reconciliation of resources and other related expenditures.
- Track initiative milestones while developing, maintaining and reporting on the overall transformation delivery plan.
- Perform regular risk and issue assessments for the transformation initiatives and develop, communicate and execute recovery plans.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
- Prosci Certified Change Practitioner.
- Experience in working in Agile organizations preferred.
- Post-acquisition integration experience preferred.
- Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of senior leadership, sponsors, and key stakeholders; mobilize and motivate teams; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; remove barriers; deliver tough messages with grace; execute with limited information and ambiguity.
- Experience with and knowledge of change management principles, Prosci methodology and tools.
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
- Must possess acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Must possess exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal; ability to communicate and present at all levels with clarity and precision.
- Strong analytical, project and program management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements.