Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager
Job Location : Waltham MA 02451
Onsite Requirements :
- client facing experience
- Overseeing product-based solutions.
- 10+ years' experience managing multiple, large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects/programs; accountable to executive stakeholders.
Job Description :
Responsibilities :
- Drives BI team programs and projects required to ensure programs achieve their strategic objectives within scope, schedule, and budget and deliver business value.
- Ensures that all required program artifacts (charter, change requests, etc.) are executed and stored correctly; ensures that all project teams and project managers comply with methodologies established; conducts periodic program audits to ensure compliance.
- Ensures that program and project managers utilize industry-standard project, program, and change management best practices.
- Ensures that the project and program managers are helping their teams to identify all project risks and create plans to manage (accept, avoid, mitigate, transfer). Coaches on risk management strategies as needed.
- Responsible for forecasting and controlling the program budget (revenue and costs) to ensure the entire portfolio realizes the expected financial & business benefits (e.g., revenue, cost savings, etc.).
- Ensures that requirements gathering sessions with key stakeholders and project teams occur as needed. Ensures that requirements between inter-related and/or non-related projects within the program are clearly articulated and approved to ensure the successful execution of the portfolio.
- Understands Business Unit requirements and ensures that program time logging requirements are met.
- Leads efforts in determining the optimal resourcing mix required to best achieve program operational and financial goals.
Requirements :
- 10+ years' experience managing multiple, large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects/programs; accountable to executive stakeholders. These projects may include software product development, product/service implementation, or marketing that utilizes cutting-edge technology.
Responsibilities :
- 6-9 years of management experience; experience managing diverse project portfolios preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage geographically dispersed project teams.
Required Skills :
- Customer Focus :
Excellent customer focus-dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers, acts with customers in mind, and establishes and maintains effective working relationships with customers. - Proven knowledge of Project/Program Management principles/methodologies (e.g., waterfall and Agile) and the ability to coach and mentor less experienced program/project managers.
- Proven process management skills-skilled at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done, knows how to organize people and activities, knows how to separate, and combine tasks into an efficient workflow. Can recommend enhancements and present findings to executive stakeholders.
- Proven planning skills-can work with cross-functional project teams to accurately scope out length and difficulty of milestones, break work down into tasks, develop schedules for multiple, interconnected and non-related projects and teams, anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks, measure performance against goals across the program, and evaluate results.
Communication :
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present findings to executive stakeholders
**3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
- This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future**
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