Project Manager - National Rollout Experience

Position Summary

Project Manager will be responsible for leading and influencing their project team to ensure their projects are delivered well and meet their intended business objectives. In the role, you will be accountable for ensuring that projects are properly chartered, planned and executed within agreed to parameters for scope, cost, schedule and quality.

Key Accountabilities :

• Lead project teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, functions and monitors their performance
• Provides project administration (Issues log, change requests, decision log). Maintains records for project plans, document management, change and problem tracking. Maintains and reports project status of actions, issues, risks for meeting budget and time goals
• Partners with multi-departmental leadership and other stakeholders to locate opportunities and develop and prioritize projects according to relevant criteria
• Supervises activities of high sized multi-disciplinary team
• Defines and develops project management best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and goals
• Manages and executes project set-up activities

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Microsoft suite, including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio
• Advanced communication, negotiation, influencing and facilitation skills; ability to create ‘win-win’ outcomes and to obtain support of executive-level management and elicit cooperation and consensus across the business; demonstrated ability to collaborate as well as lead across a matrix organization to execute on strategies, influence change and deliver results
• Demonstrates appropriate flexibility in all situations and will be comfortable with ambiguity, while pivoting from macro to micro issues, from shaping the strategy agenda through to the day-to-day
• Highly motivated, an independent thinker and has a proven track record of setting and meeting aggressive goals and actions plans, both as an individual and with a team
• Experience developing and maintaining project schedules including working team and executive views
• Demonstrated expertise and proficiency in the application of project management methodologies
• Adheres to the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and sets a positive example for others
• Proven experience in delivering complex projects with multiple technical and business workstreams and involving multiple departments, vendors, external partners in the delivery of solutions requiring integration of multiple tools and technologies
• 7 to 10 years’ experience as a Project Manager working collaboratively as part of cross functional team
• Proven ability to establish and build healthy working relationships and partnerships with technology business leaders/sponsors, peers, clients and team will work transparently and cooperatively with cross-functional teams, effectively engaging all pertinent stakeholders, both internal and external
• Preference to candidates who have experience with
• Physical building security rollouts
• BA in relevant field
• Detailed planning and managing of national technology rollouts which impact end users
• Partnering with 3rd party software as a service/integration partner
• Demonstrates change leadership by successfully guiding the organization through change, while maintaining focus, intensity and team cohesion
• Strong analytical, financial and balanced decision-making skills

Nice To Have :

• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
• PMP – Project Management Professional certification