Senior Project Manager

Job Description

We are looking for a Sr. Project Manager for our Aerospace and Defense client located on site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The Digital Technologies (DT) Project Manager (PM) will join their Project Manager Office (PMO). This Sr. Project Manager will provide multi-mode value delivery, including traditional project management, Agile product delivery, and operational/project financial analysis services. This role is a traditional PM but expected to lean into Agile delivery increasingly in the future. This role will focus on large and complex projects in their portfolio.

The projects are primarily on application development, enhancements, and modernization. Many are SaaS software implementations & customizations. We also execute infrastructure projects and business process improvements with a digital slant.

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead & drive large-scale, complex DT projects, showing up with a proactive, entrepreneurial, demonstrating a strong sense of urgency and ownership, as if you were investing your own money in the project’s results.
• Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor.
• Foster trust and build collaborative relationships with digital and functional executive sponsors, ensuring a deep understanding of their strategic interests & viewpoints.
• Ability to seamlessly navigate the political landscape amongst senior leaders in the function and DT.
• Oversee all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies.
• Drive the project’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed.
• Continuously demonstrate progress, provide status reports/briefings. Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the project.
• Efficiently shepherd your projects through our phase-gated project governance framework. Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate.

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Typically a university degree and 10 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 7 years’ experience OR in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience is required
• 5 years of experience with project management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives.
• 3 years of proven experience managing large scale projects involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, Data Repository, or Engineering systems.
• 3 years of a demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise projects, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule.
• 3 years of experience building and managing schedules in MS Project.
• Ability to be on-site in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a government and/or large, complex corporate/industrial environment.
• Expert in creating visually appealing, executive-level PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience developing & managing financial business cases & cost/benefit analyses for DT projects.
• Experience with integrating multiple project methodologies including waterfall & Agile frameworks like SAFe.
• Project Management certification (PMP, etc.), Scrum Certification and SAFe or similar agile certifications.