Title: Senior Project Manager
Industry: Entertainment
Location: Orlando, FL
Compensation: $80-84/hr
Duration: 8 months, possibility for extension.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the US
Qualified candidates please send Resumes directly to Jenna Hinkle at (url removed).
Description:
The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing one or multiple workstreams within a large project intending to upgrade the wireless technology (switches and access points) in more than 100 domestic office campuses. This technology position works closely with various Enterprise Technology teams (Wireless, Transport, Network operations) as well as Business segments. The Senior Project Manager is reporting into the PMO organization and will report directly to a Sr. Program Manager responsible of the overall effort. This project is leveraging a Waterfall Project Delivery framework.
Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with project stakeholders
Provides oversight to ensure critical day-to-day program/project deliverables progress forward to deliver specified requirements, objectives, and value
Identifies gaps in the project teams accountability and ownership of deliverables
Foster a team environment of self-organization, retrospect to learn and adapt with the goal of delivering the highest value to our guests and cast
Vendor Team Management to Support and align with 3rd party vendor to ensure deliverables are complete in a timely manner
Evaluates and harmonize vendors timelines/schedules and cross-project dependencies to ensure alignment with overall project/program objectives
Escalates to remediate risks/blockers impeding vendors forward progression, as necessary
Analyzes, measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions, participate in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues, and maintains budget tracking and monitors budget expenditures
Status Reporting
Prepares program/project status reports to demonstrate project overall health, key performance indicator (KPI), risk, issues, accomplishments, next steps, and escalation requests
Identifies and facilitates resolution of issues and risks on projects to meet commitments
Maintains data visualization elements to provide a graphic demonstration of project analytics and metrics
Leads with a win/win attitude with competing priorities and adapts to diverse personalities.
Operates as an independent and dynamic project leader.
Demonstrates influencing without direct authority
Facilitates project team meetings effectively, ensuring the desired outcomes are achieved
Distributes timely and effective project meeting updates and call to action updates across project teams
Demonstrates effective communication skills to facilitate project-related conversations with technology senior leaders/managers/directors and service owners alike, and driving tasks and project dependencies to completion across multiple supporting team
Escalates the need for guidance and support to direct manager effectively
Basic Qualifications:
Proficient in leveraging the Waterfall Project Delivery framework o Proficient in using modern work management and collaboration tools (Smartsheet, JIRA, MS Project on the Web, Confluence, SharePoint/Teams, Slack)
Ensures project document repositories are maintained and updated
10 years of applicable project management experience in a technology environment, preferably for a large company in matrixed environment.
Ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects and successfully completes in a timely manner
Familiar with project management tools such as Smartsheet Proficiency with a wide range of productivity tools, including collaboration software (e.g., Slack, MS Teams), standard MS Office tools (e.g., Outlook Online
Preferred Qualifications:
2 years Project Management experience in Network Infrastructure Familiarity with Cisco DNAC implementation is a plus.