Senior Project Manager Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
- Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals
- Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one or more initiatives simultaneously
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, testing, and deployment management activities
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
- Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships that facilitate project success
- Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
- Procure and manage adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources
- Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
- Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
- Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration, or litigation, as needed
- Support formal/informal schedules to manage the engagement contract
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and program team
- Effectively communicate with superiors, team members, clients, and other stakeholders
- Continue professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices
Senior Project Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects
- 3+ years of experience with full product lifecycle with understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle
- Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint, with experience presenting to stakeholders and / or Senior Leadership
- Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross- functional environment
- Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities
- Experience negotiating vendor contracts
- Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
- Experience in successfully leading projects and programs on-time, on-schedule. and within budget parameters
- Experience leading, motivating, and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
- Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives, sponsors, team members, stakeholders, and peersManage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
- Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals
- Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one or more initiatives simultaneously
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, testing, and deployment management activities
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence
- Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships that facilitate project success
- Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
- Procure and manage adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources
- Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks, and issues
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations, and business needs
- Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution
- Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration, or litigation, as needed
- Support formal/informal schedules to manage the engagement contract
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and program team
- Effectively communicate with superiors, team members, clients, and other stakeholders
- Local university graduate with civil engineering
