Sr. Strategy & Project Manager - ePMO

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional project teams, ensuring that team members are aligned on project goals and timelines
• Engages with business sponsors, stakeholders, and subject matter experts across the enterprise to create/identify strategy, as well as manage technical, operational, and process requirements gathering/scoping exercises to produce business requirements/scope of deliverables supporting project success
• Leads workshops to produce strategic and/or tactical plans, requirement definition, and assisting clients in defining new services based on company business initiatives
• Contributes to and partners with the Purchasing department in the development of a Request for Information (RFI) or Request for Proposal (RFP)
• Develops enterprise project documentation necessary to successfully launch each project
• Provides leadership and mentorship to junior project managers and other team members, helping to develop their skills and capabilities
• Buils and maintains customer relationships, monitors customer perceptions of project deliverables, and provides customers with education and options when challenges arise during the project
• Owns the process of tracking and communicating appropriately all issues, risks, and action items
• Manages post-project activities including project assessment and documentation (e.g., lessons learned and customer satisfaction surveys)
• Identifies, tracks, manages, and reports progress against major project milestones and mitigates items impacting the successful delivery of project including impacts to timelines, budget, quality, etc.
• Owns and maintains customer relationships, monitoring customer perceptions of the deliverables, and providing customers with education and options when challenges arise during the project
• Helps business understand its needs, risks, assumptions and specifies requirements and risk response that will lead to the optimal solution and deliver intended results
• Works closely with and supports enterprise project managers and requirements analysts on all projects that are large scale, complex, and/or strategically important to Focus

Job Qualifications/Requirements

• Exemplifies Ephesians 5:1-2, “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children and walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us…”
• Pursues the Great Commission given by Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19-20, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
• Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ; maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Focus; adheres to the Standard of Moral Conduct and Statement of Faith; upholds Focus on the Family's ministry in prayer
• Engages in Christian ministry
• Demonstrates behaviors aligned with FOF core values
• Maintains a high degree of integrity and ethical behavior in all business activities and decisions; lives with integrity derived from biblical values and demonstrates standards of conduct that meet or exceed company or legal requirements
• Self-motivated; demonstrates the ability to get the job done
• Diplomatic; articulate; decisive; approachable; flexible; concern for long-term effectiveness
• Positive and encouraging attitude with ability to motivate/encourage peers
• Team player; trustworthy; reliable
• Confident; Coachable, able to redirect work priorities and assignments as requested
• Creative thinker, effective problem-solver
• Adaptable; able to adjust to changing priorities
• Constituent and Stakeholder-service oriented
• Embraces learning and continuous improvement, with an ability to quickly digest new information and gain expertise
• Treats other with dignity, respect, and graciousness; maintains a cool and calm demeanor under pressure
• Avoids groupthink: Courage to assertively present alternatives in a spirit of mutual respect; humility when their ideas aren’t accepted
• Approaches processes and tools with an eye for adding value and eliminating waste (Lean thinking)
• Exceptional analytical ability with logical thought processes
• Ability to connect business strategy to requirements and project scope
• Ability to simplify and codify complex and/or ambiguous ideas into concrete, digestible concepts, and requirements
• Ability to translate between tech-speak and business-ease while connecting technical concepts with business value
• Proactive; thinks ahead and actively strives to empower a team to anticipate upcoming efforts and challenges
• Strong leadership and facilitation skills, with an ability to communicate with groups of different sizes
• Proven ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and persuasively – verbally and written
• Ability to communicate with tact and sensitivity at all organizational levels
• Ability to present options to stakeholders and facilitate effective decision making in a group setting
• Active listening skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects at various stages
• Influence and gain support from people over whom they have no direct control
• Resolve conflicts, disagreements, and misunderstandings
• Sound judgement and decision-making ability
• Advanced organizational and time-management skills with strong attention to detail
• Ability to work with little supervision
• Multi-tasking ability

Salary Range

$92,560 to $108,108

Note

This is a summary and should not be construed as future promises to continue to provide benefits as outlined above. For complete and definitive language, refer to the governing plan documents.