Project Manager - Distributed Workforce

As Global Technology continues to increase its capabilities to further our digital transformation agenda, it has become increasingly important that we focus on establishing a strong talent pool by both growing our existing talent and exploring new ways to acquire talent. To do so, Global Technology has embarked on a thoughtful transformation to help grow its talent base across all domains and has established a program office to run this offense. As one of our DWO Project Managers, you will be an integral part of the program and oversee critical workstreams. You’ll work with another project manager, workstream leads, analysts and program leadership to deliver results.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering against the program roadmap and objectives. Core responsibilities include:

• Manage critical, complex workstreams impacting the organization as a whole
  
• Rigorous scheduling at the task level, with overall accountability at the program level
  
• Managing workstream budgets – including initial estimation, tracking of actuals, and understanding the deviations
  
• Develop and execute resource plans, status reporting, and define and execute risk management plans
  
• Proactively approach and communicate status to program leadership and stakeholders effectively, with an emphasis on maintaining alignment with core project sponsors
  
• Manage changes against project schedule, scope and cost, as well as lead the assessment of impact on the other workstreams of the program
  
• Successfully manage project dependencies and constraints
  
• Build partnerships across organizational, departmental, and geographical boundaries
  

• Strong end-to-end project management skills, shepherding an entire program from kick off to completion
  
• Ability to connect project/status to business needs, tracking quantifiable results
  
• Comfortable speaking with multiple stakeholders at varying levels, ability to synthesize detail project tasks to report up high level accomplishments and risks
  
• Proactive desire to own and drive projects forward through measurable process, planning and team engagement
  
• Solution-oriented
  
• Team leadership and ability to inspire and motivate
  
• Positive team player who seeks the collective success of the team
  
• Exceptional collaboration, listening, written and verbal communication skills
  
• Comfortable working in a very fast-paced, results-oriented environment
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, or a related field
  
• 5 years professional experience with at least 2 years in technical project management
  
• 2 years additional relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree 
  
• Proven experience developing and managing work back schedules, scope, budgets, resource plans, issues, risks and change requests
  
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies; Scrum Master or PMP certification is a plus
  
• Experience working with many cross functional teams
  
• Experience with business process improvement methods (e.g., Lean) is preferred
  
• Experience working on global projects is a plus