The Senior Project Manager will work heavily with business leaders and cross functional teams across the enterprise including finance, marketing, sales, IT, resource planning, and HR to assist in the creation of a PMO.
Duties and Responsibilities:
PMO Experience:
Partner with C-Level leadership to align best practices and processes across the organization
Supports a culture of continuous learnings
Identifies PMO processes
Explanation of roles and responsibilities as project managers and expected outcomes
Periodic coaching
Coordination of necessary training
Project Plan Development and Management:
Develop and manage project plans to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives.
Oversee the project timeline, scope, and milestones to ensure successful completion on time, within budget and following quality standards. Identify, anticipate, and mitigate risks to the project goals, timeline, and budget.
Develop strategies to address potential issues before they impact the project's success.
Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Building:
Build and maintain relationships with senior business leaders, including C-level management to serve as an agent of positive change.
Facilitate meetings with leaders, project teams, and stakeholders to negotiate decisions affecting the project scope, timeline, and budget.
Schedule functional and technical resources, both internal and external.
Project Documentation and Reporting:
Document project progress, decisions, risks, tasks, and costs.
Communicate the project plan, goals, status, and issues through various means, including a widely shared project dashboard.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree
Specialized Knowledge: Significant knowledge of complex project management principles associated with the implementation and enhancements of CRM and ERP products would be a big plus.
Analytical: Ability to solve problems and analyze complex data to make informed decisions to formulate appropriate action plans.
Project/Process Management: Ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team of diverse individuals to complete broad goals and objectives.
Experience in various project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
Written Communications: Must be able to clearly articulate a problem, goal or objective with the intent to garner broad support. Must be able to document the current status of a project including goals, outstanding and completed tasks, issues and budget considerations.
Oral Communications: Must be able to clearly present to both small and large audiences to report activities of a project, present an issue that needs a resolution, or a concept/theory being presented.