Senior Project Manager

About the role

This individual contributor position facilitates the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors, vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual, complex and highly visible projects, ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables, new and improved processes, and services.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors, vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual, complex and highly visible projects, ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables, new and improved processes, and services.
• Manage projects of high complexity and high visibility, operating in a tightly regulated industry environment.
• Ensure the execution of all key steps in project delivery: business, technical and functional requirements elicitation, dependency mapping, milestone projections, task-level program steps, identification and regular publishing of metrics which define project success.
• Monitor work to ensure that projects remain in line with projected costs and timelines by ensuring the adoption of well-established, industry best practice frameworks and methodologies.
• Comply with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Project Management, Computer Science, or related field required. Completion of an approved educational program or four years of related experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Experience: 4 years of experience in planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. The 4 years must include a minimum of three years of experience in senior-level planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes.

Qualifications

• High degree of competency with PMBOK methodologies and frameworks such as project management, software development life cycle and ITIL.
• Six Sigma and Organizational development best practices a plus.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in the field of computer science, including hardware and software products, computer systems, systems analysis, programming, development/maintenance process, and data management for large complex systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to create and deliver presentations to organization management including Senior Management are required.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage project teams independently with minimal oversight from management.
• Ability to demonstrate presentation and facilitation skills working with key stakeholders and management including executive management required.
• Experience in interpreting and explaining specialized or complex material into information consumable by the public required.
• Demonstrated ability to critically analyze business information and process flows, gather relevant requirements and generate business, functional and technical specifications needed for successful delivery.
• Analytical & Creativity: Experience identifying, defining, quantifying and solving complex or highly technical project-related issues on a regular basis. Experience using creativity/innovative approaches to resolve issues despite minimum lead times and with minimum requirement definition for changes or projects of major proportions. Experience correlating requirements and information from multiple sources, anticipating both current and future processing and management information needs, analyzing their potential impacts, and creating new technical solutions for these needs.

Skills

• PMBOK methodologies and frameworks such as project management, software development life cycle and ITIL.
• Six Sigma and Organizational development best practices a plus.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in the field of computer science, including hardware and software products, computer systems, systems analysis, programming, development/maintenance process, and data management for large complex systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to create and deliver presentations to organization management including Senior Management are required.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage project teams independently with minimal oversight from management.
• Ability to demonstrate presentation and facilitation skills working with key stakeholders and management including executive management required.
• Experience in interpreting and explaining specialized or complex material into information consumable by the public required.
• Demonstrated ability to critically analyze business information and process flows, gather relevant requirements and generate business, functional and technical specifications needed for successful delivery.
• Analytical & Creativity: Experience identifying, defining, quantifying and solving complex or highly technical project-related issues on a regular basis. Experience using creativity/innovative approaches to resolve issues despite minimum lead times and with minimum requirement definition for changes or projects of major proportions. Experience correlating requirements and information from multiple sources, anticipating both current and future processing and management information needs, analyzing their potential impacts, and creating new technical solutions for these needs.

Benefits

We take great strides to ensure our employees have the resources to live well, be healthy, continue learning, develop skills, grow professionally and serve our local communities.

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