What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Optimus - People. Solutions. Delivered.?
A key Optimus client is currently seeking Project Manager to join our team located here in Houston! This is a long-term project role located onsite and in the office 3 days a week in downtown Houston. Must be local to Houston. Please send your resume to Kimberly.rush@optimus-us.com our your Optimus recruiter.
We are looking for a Transformation PM - Architecture & migration leadership to help with their Lease Purchase System (LPS) which is a core, legacy trading system used primarily in Crude and Products to manage lease-based purchases and related financial processing.
This is the system of record for managing our client’s lease purchases, handling commercial, contractual, and financial aspects of leased supply
LPS supports high-value, high-volume commercial activity, including:
- Deal and contract entry for lease-based purchases
- Contract generation and maintenance
- Pricing and run-ticket processing
- Division-of-interest (DOI) master data management
- Payments and reporting, including 1099 tax reporting
- SOX-critical controls around contract and payment data
- Integrates with Endur, MCC, and other downstream systems
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Agree and deliver programs, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit, within the standards and controls framework.
- Proactively analyze variances against plan and trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments.
- Identify where a project may be at risk and take appropriate action.
- Engage internal and external stakeholders e.g. users/customers/suppliers to benefit from the delivered products, services and changes.
- Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behavior changes and maximize benefits.
- Align expectations and ensure that stakeholders decisions are a timely and effective.
- Mobilize and lead teams with a mixture of staff and suppliers across organizational boundaries and the natural team.
- Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes.
- Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments.
- Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints.
- Assess program risks and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and benefit, managing the business cases of your projects and workstreams.
- Ensure all deliverables are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual.
- Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered.
Mandatory skills:
- Program and project delivery up to $10m budget & Teams up to 50.
- Agile & waterfall methodology.
- Domain knowledge e.g. Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR. Cloud, mobile, SAS, and digital.
- Leadership, communication and resilience.
- Stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.