Project Manager

Elevate the organization's project management practices by establishing and upholding PMO governance structures and ensuring the delivery and efficient execution of value-creation initiatives, delivering substantial value to both the company and its stakeholders. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimize efficiency, effectiveness, and alignment with the company's strategic objectives.

• Lead and support the delivery of projects aimed at creating value, enhancing operational efficiency, and elevating customer satisfaction. This includes assessing the business case, monitoring project progress, and ensuring the realization of expected benefits.
• Develops, executes, coordinates and monitors overall project plans (in MS Project), tasks, and milestones.
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust PMO governance structures, policies, and best practices to ensure uniformity and consistency across all projects.
• Cultivate robust relationships with stakeholders at all organizational levels, ensuring effective communication and collaboration to drive project success.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge project success and continuously seek opportunities for improvement.
• Contribute to the establishment of a common set of project management practices, tools and templates for portfolio, program and project level management and ensures standards are being followed.
• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks while developing contingency plans to safeguard project timelines and deliverables.
• Facilitate change management activities associated with project implementations, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder adoption of new processes or technologies.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Interfaces with internal customers and external vendors.
• Participate in feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
• Develop resourcing strategies, allocates staff and delegates support as necessary.

• Bachelor’s degree in or equivalent work experience preferred.
• PMP certification
• Requires advanced MS Office 201****, MS Visio and Project Professional 201****** skills, and experience with MS Project Server and
• Proven track record of advocating project management discipline.

Special demands:

• Will require some weekend and off hour shifts to support project initiatives.

Skills:

• Requires strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills, including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations.
• Partner with other leaders to foster a workplace culture of transparency and effective execution.
• Functions independently with limited work direction.
• Ability to mentor others and assist peers.
• Great negotiator and influencer, adept at conflict resolution and creative problem solver.

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