Senior Project Manager
Role Description
– Routinely performs as project manager for strategic clients on large complex projects & multi solution projects exceeding 12 months in duration or having significant budget impact for the business unit P&L.
– Provide task assignments, work direction and guidance to the project team to achieve quality results.
– Develop and compose business cases to support the acquisition or development of critical project components or strategic initiatives
– Develop lists of activities and tasks, define their interdependencies, manage resource demands, engage and assign resources to tasks.
– Consolidate all project deliverables including business, technical & infrastructure deliverables, the validation process for the review and approval of deliverable and quality criteria for deliverables assessment.
– Define project scope subject to management approval, establish the process for altering the scope and respond to requests for changes to the scope.
– Consolidate time estimates, develop project schedule, track task progress to completion and address scheduling problems as they arise. Develop, maintain, publish and distribute comprehensive project schedule plans (top-down during initiation and bottom-up at design-end).
– Estimate project costs, prepare budget recommendations and monitor and report project performance to budget constraints.
– Identify, mitigate and recommend alternatives on handling risks and issues that threaten the successful completion of the project within deadline
– Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the execution of the project.
– Monitor and report project progress to objectives in timeframes, scope, quality, costs, risks and customer relationship/ receive information on project tasks execution progress status, changes and issues. Identify potential sources for solutions and contact appropriate parties to initiate corrective actions or follow-up plans (i.e. rolling wave planning).
– Participates in estimation process.
– Specify, obtain through resource demand management and allocate resources to meet project requirements. Participates to the coordination of procurement planning, source selection, contract administration and contract closeout (when appropriate).
Position Requirements
Strong knowledge of project management methodology and tools including software. • Excellent knowledge of business unit products and operations.
Excellent knowledge of legislation and regulations impacting business unit industry.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
Excellent leadership skills.
Fluent English speaker
Agile Methodologies
Required qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Master’s degree in Business Administration preferred
PMI Accredited – Project Management Professional qualification
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years PM related experience
Monitor, control and track the quality of the project deliverables
Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders
Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs project evaluations and assessment of results
Soft skills and Competencies
Ability to communicate effectively; interpret policy, procedures and data; maintain emotional control under stress
Ability to estimate, prioritize and organize tasks effectively
Ability to make decisions assessing all relevant factors
Constant demonstration of proactive attitude
Identify problems and proactively suggest problem resolution
Follow, learn and put to use new skills and knowledge brought about by rapidly changing information and/or technology
Emphasize on results and is goal oriented
Ability to elaborate on and handle project requirements appropriately
Responsive to the demands of employees and supervisors; open to feedback
Adhere to the business ethics and the established internal rules
Reliable