What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Project Manager- HR position at Panasonic North America?
Overview
Every moment of every day, people all over the world turn to Panasonic to make their lives simpler, more enjoyable, more productive and more secure. Since our founding almost a century ago, we’ve been committed to improving peoples’ lives and making the world a better place-one customer, one business, one innovative leap at a time. Come join our journey!
Responsibilities
Meet the Recruiter: Amber Smallwood
What You'll Get To Do
The Senior Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional initiatives from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget. This role oversees project plans, resources, budgets, and deliverables while monitoring team performance, resolving issues, and maintaining quality standards. Acting as a strategic partner to business leaders, the Senior Project Manager translates organizational goals into actionable plans, drives execution through expert coordination and risk management. The Senior Project Manager will lead junior team members and champion project management best practices across the organization.
Business Relationship Management
What You'll Bring
Education & Experience
Panasonic prioritizes total wellbeing. We offer a wide variety of benefits and programs to support your physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health.
At Panasonic, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer.
The wage range of $130,000 - $140,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. Actual compensation varies depending on the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives. *The minimum hourly wage for this role will be the greater of the posted range, or minimum wage for the location where the employee will be working, subject to local minimum wage requirements.
We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S.
Thank you for your interest in Panasonic.
REQ-152849
Every moment of every day, people all over the world turn to Panasonic to make their lives simpler, more enjoyable, more productive and more secure. Since our founding almost a century ago, we’ve been committed to improving peoples’ lives and making the world a better place-one customer, one business, one innovative leap at a time. Come join our journey!
Responsibilities
Meet the Recruiter: Amber Smallwood
What You'll Get To Do
The Senior Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional initiatives from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget. This role oversees project plans, resources, budgets, and deliverables while monitoring team performance, resolving issues, and maintaining quality standards. Acting as a strategic partner to business leaders, the Senior Project Manager translates organizational goals into actionable plans, drives execution through expert coordination and risk management. The Senior Project Manager will lead junior team members and champion project management best practices across the organization.
Business Relationship Management
- Build and foster partnerships with customers/stakeholders/sponsors to align project goals with strategic priorities
- Coordinate resource needs and availability between vendors, sponsors, and project team members
- Communicate transparently and frequently on issues and status of project with project team(s), sponsors, and customer executives
- Monitor project impact and gather feedback across the project team to improve future collaboration and outcomes
- Represent and articulate PMO’s capability and competency to the customers/stakeholders/sponsors
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple high-impact projects simultaneously
- Translate business needs into actionable project plans
- Develop detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations
- Align project objectives with company goals, and make sure project team is clear on objectives and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders
- Implement and promote project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) and tools (ServiceNow)
- Partner with Change Management to support communication, training, and stakeholder adoption activities.
- Ensure that all governance, compliance, security, and change control needs are met.
- Provide weekly reports to management highlighting project progress, and risks and issues, escalating as needed
- Monitor project scope and escalate indications of scope creep to customers/stakeholders/sponsors
- Measure and track project success criteria, including business outcomes, ROI, and benefits realization.
- Assist PMO Manager with preparation of monthly report-out of all projects in-flight and upcoming across all functional teams to executive leadership
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process gaps and recommending solutions
- Provide quality assurance, weekly, over prompt time entry submissions and approval across all PMO Projects and resources
- Provide quality assurance, weekly, over Demand and Project creation in ServiceNow, maintaining overall data hygiene therein
- Manages 2 direct reports - Project Specialists within the HR PMO
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects with competing priorities
- Manage projects and resources allocated to specific project assignments
- Monitor financial budgets / cost plans per project assignment and report out budget vs. actuals
- Create resource plans and track resource allocations throughout lifecycle of project, making updates as necessary
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate technical to non-technical audiences
- Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures
What You'll Bring
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or related field, required
- Minimum of 5 years of project management experience
- Experience in a broad scope of enterprise technologies (Workday, ServiceNow)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent experience, required
- Agile Certification (PMI-ACP) or equivalent experience, required
- Experience with ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management, preferred
Panasonic prioritizes total wellbeing. We offer a wide variety of benefits and programs to support your physical, emotional, financial, social, and environmental health.
- Competitive compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Paid Parental Care Leave
- Employee Referral Program
- Educational Assistance
- Flexible Work Program
- Volunteer time Off
- Casual Dress Code
- Total Well Being Program
At Panasonic, we are committed to a workplace that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. Fairness and Honesty have been part of our core values for more than 100 years and we are proud of our diverse culture as an equal opportunity employer.
The wage range of $130,000 - $140,000 is just one component of Panasonic’s total package. Actual compensation varies depending on the individual’s knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses and incentives. *The minimum hourly wage for this role will be the greater of the posted range, or minimum wage for the location where the employee will be working, subject to local minimum wage requirements.
We understand that your career search may look different than others and embrace the professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience. If you are actively looking or starting to explore new opportunities, send us your application!
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristic protected by law. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S.
Thank you for your interest in Panasonic.
REQ-152849
Salary : $130,000 - $140,000