Project Manager, Senior
Project Manager, Senior, is responsible for scoping, planning, and delivering a project. Oversee all aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, and monitor and summarize the progress of the project. Prepare reports for Senior management regarding the status of the project. The successful candidate will work directly with clients to ensure deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget.
Responsibilities include :
- Monitor and control projects along the full project / product lifecycle in line with Agile Project Management methodology in particular.
- Drive project life cycle from initiation to production and lessons learned for each of the projects. Ensure excellent coordination / communication between all stakeholders.
- Ensure excellent cross-functional and cross-site coordination as necessary for specific projects.
- Ensure that project priorities remain aligned with the business priorities as defined by the project goals and objectives.
- Ensure project deliverables are delivered to the quality and schedule committed as per the project management plan.
- Ensure accurate tracking of time spent through the application of activity reporting for all project team members.
- Monitor and manage the project budget including labor, materials, travel, indirect expenses, etc.
- Ensure accurate and effective communication and reporting of key project parameters to all project stakeholders.
- High IT affinity in general, i.e. ability to quickly gain top-level understanding and interact with various subject matter experts.
- In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies, including PMP, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or equivalent certification.
- Strong interpersonal skills, tenacity, and ability to drive results in a complex, multicultural environment and at different hierarchical levels.
- Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost-effectiveness.
- Creating a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.
- Exhibiting a high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.
- Be able to track metrics and suggest mitigation strategies.
- Look out for business value adds while managing the project.
Qualifications include :
Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills to earn the support of business leaders, technology leaders, colleagues, and vendor representatives.Proficiency with MS Office suite, including MS Project and / or Agile project management tools, team player, self-motivated, and ability to work independently and pro-actively.Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost-effectiveness.Creating a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.Exhibiting a high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.Mentoring technical leads and developers.Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.Creative and able to think outside the box while defining sound and practical solutions.Desire to take the initiative, moving projects / ideas forward with clarity.Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.Education & Experience :
Bachelors in Technology / Management, a plus.PMP Certification, a plusExperience in the tolling industry.Supervisory Responsibilities :
N / A
Work Environment :
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and reach with hands and arms, hear, and talk. The employee will be working and navigating on a computer. The employee occasionally is required to stand, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, and walk. The employee may occasionally be required to lift and / or move up to 20 pounds. The work environment is usually moderate to loud.