Sr Project Manager

Job Description

Experienced PM possessing leadership, communication, and management skills, enabling them to manage a single project and/or engagement efficiently and effectively to ensure all customer objectives are met. Responsible for building strong relationships with delivery team, customer, and client's management and technical staff.

Responsibilities

• Quickly understands and assimilates deliverables outlined in customer statements of work (SOW).
• Captures and documents all key tasks, milestones, customer expectations, requirements, data gathering and reporting needs.
• Directs and coordinates a project/engagement and related activities across cross-functional personnel to complete on schedule and within budget.
• Establishes quantifiable key metrics used to create and deliver customer scorecard.
• Actively communicates project/engagement status and priorities with sponsors, driving planning and tracking of tasks, scheduling, reporting, and delivery across various project/engagement phases.
• Works with mgmt./ staff to outline work plans, assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
• Demonstrates expertise in planning, executing, and delivering projects/engagements.
• Experience mentoring team members.
• Actively manages work efforts of multiple, functional resources through a project/engagement plan.
• Initiates and maintains reporting relationships with stakeholders (team members, peers, managers, customers, vendors, and other affected departments) to coordinate efforts across multiple business units, ensuring continuous efficient management of projects/engagements; gathers input and feedback.
• Establishes Risk Management Program (Methodology, Process, Procedures and Tools), Risk Register for tracking and reporting to management and oversight of Risk Manager daily activities.
• Create and manage project plans across all work streams. Assure quality delivery of services throughout the life of the project/engagement (i.e. all phases of design, deployment, technology refresh, and Day 2 operational support).
• Maximize efficiency, consistency, and reduce risk through the development of standardized tools, templates, and processes.
• Establish an overall program management structure. Align key project functions and establish a program management model. Identify roles and responsibilities and establish clear areas of accountability.
• Provide program oversight and stakeholder management.
• Provide analytical and quantitative support to assist with key decisions.
• Develop a program level schedule, incorporating individual project schedules into an executive view.
• Develop the program wide risk management and contingency plan.
• Program Management Communications. Maintenance and distribution of project status reports, project plans and project roll-up summary reporting.
• Project Schedules - Maintenance and updating of centralized project deployment schedules. Development of the Migration Plan and Schedule, including tasks and milestones.
• Documentation Control - Maintenance and version-control of official project-based documents as well as owner of document repository.
• Follow-up and Closure - Coordination and management of implementation completion activities, including project acceptance, post-implementation evaluation and project reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Able to pass and keep background check requirements.
• 10+ years’ experience as a Program Manager leading project.
• PMP certification or equivalent.