Senior Project Program Manager

Senior Project Manager – Enterprise Project / Program Management

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for helping to support and implement a Program by working with multiple stakeholders across various divisions, teams, and subsidiaries. Specific tasks on each project will include developingproject plans and schedules, managing tasks and teams, identifying and resolving project managementissues, communicating status, including spend, and authoring functional requirements. The Senior Manager will be proactive in managing issues, risks and follow change management.

It is essential thatthe Senior Project Manager understands the scope and effect of all new or upgraded processes, solicits inputfrom all constituents, and involves all appropriate teams. Project Management works closely with everykey stakeholder of the program and with every part of the organization.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to think out of the box and generate creative solutions
• Innate capability to create order out of chaos
• 10 years + project management experience required
• Ability to work and interact with a globally distributed team
• Desire to work in fast-paced, multi-task, fluid environment capable of reacting instantly to changes in a competitive business environment
• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree
• PMP Certification
• Experience with delivery projects with Agile methodology including Scrum Master and or RTE roles in past
• Experience in managing complex programs with multi-year budgets $3-10M+
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business people and software engineers
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Experience in project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Jira Align required
• Successful track record working with business and technology teams to define, develop, test and launch new products and new programs (must be able to present specific examples where your role required the ability work between technical and management teams)
• Ability to plan, organize and proctor efficient meetings through preparation, stakeholder buy in, and guide a group towards agreed upon objectives

Responsibilities

• Provide real time updates of relevant project information in the project information database
• Identifies and gathers assets required for development of each project
• Primarily responsible for larger projects, or groups of smaller projects as part of a larger program
• Helps define process improvements and feedback for large, multi-part projects that need creative project management strategies required for timely execution
• Provide necessary feedback to project stakeholders (e.g., specification feedback, issue escalation to managers or scope changes/clarifications to project resources)
• Responsible for scope control with stakeholders, task execution with the development team and relevant upward communication to managers
• Manage handoffs at each stage in the project life cycle according to guidelines specified in the department’s development policies