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Senior Project Manager Applications
Role Summary:
Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering multiple strategic efforts across various departments. This role will be a part of the Project and Portfolio Management organization and reports to the Director - Project and Portfolio Management.
Key responsibilities include:
- Understands process and challenges in Web Development Projects and/or implementing and
integrating best in class COTS solutions.
- Expert in traditional project management techniques with good understanding of Agile frameworks.
- Using hands-on and a proactive approach to ensure that value is delivered - with full responsibility for all aspects of a project including managing milestones, identifying and tracking issues and risks, and driving the team to meet project goals.
- Creating visibility into the project activities and milestones while balancing the desire to follow an agile and iterative software development process.
- Partnering with other digital delivery groups to align ongoing efforts.
- Contributing to the team by participating in solution definition and removing roadblocks
- Attaining full knowledge of the functional area and helps the project teams to focus on achieving desired business outcomes.
- Surfacing challenges that require cross team coordination or leadership intervention prior to them impacting scope, cost or the timeline.
- Establishing a good cadence for communicating outside the team including conducting effective meetings for the given audience by managing the agenda, running the meeting and communicating/tracking follow-ups.
- Establishing strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders.
- Helping the team in identifying development opportunities and challenging the team to actively work on improving their performance
- Managing budgets, forecasts and vendor teams; Coordinates vendor selection and contracting.
- Ensuring alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy and roadmap.
- Ensures project or framework specific governance is implemented
- Experience with SAP/ERP Integration is plus
- Experience with Salesforce Integration is a plus
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
80% Project delivery Management
10% Coaching and managing other PLs/PMs
10% Perform other duties as assigned including organizational improvement activities
Technical knowledge/skills
- Advanced knowledge of IT standards, policies and procedures
- Advanced knowledge of Traditional and Agile frameworks
- Advanced knowledge of Tools for Managing and Reporting team progress
- Proficient working with technology platforms
LEVEL BASED COMPETENCIES
Level Based Competencies are to be designated based on job level and content.
- Strong Decision Making, Collaboration, conflict management, facilitation and delegation skills
- Excellent experience in dealing with C-level executives
- Can coach other project managers and business team members in applying right methodology
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities with competing deadlines
- Ability to drive deliverables through completion and hold team members accountable for their work
- Ability to identify potential risks and provide proactive mitigations
Job / General knowledge/skills
- Positive can-do attitude, solutions-oriented and willingness to extend beyond day-to-day project manager responsibilities
- Strong ability in Problem Solving, Forward Thinking, Influencing Stakeholders
- Strong Adaptability and Sense of ownership
- Strong ability to Build Relationships and Credibility with Management
- Strong Ability to Influence and Drive Cross Functional Decisions and Initiatives
Leadership/Supervision
- Minimal to no Supervision and Oversight required
- Adherence to Performance review and Goal setting process
- Strong ability to provide feedback and apply feedback received to improve performance.
Education/Experience
- Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or relevant experience
- 10 years of managing initiatives in digital environment preferably in manufacturing area
- Must have experience in applying traditional and agile frameworks that are best suited to the needs of the project to deliver value.
- Must have strong experience in managing large, complex projects
- Training and certifications in traditional project management and/or agile methodologies is preferred