Sr. Project Manager

About this role

Sr. Project Manager

PURPOSE:

Responsible to oversee and guide project teams through project initiation to project close, ensuring the teams follow organizational best practices. The Project Manager will serve as the overall project owner, guiding and motivating project teams, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own overall schedule, budget, and deliverables for assigned project(s)
• Use waterfall and/or agile methodologies and practices to plan, manage and deliver technology solutions, as defined by the project scope/SOW.
• Schedule and facilitate project events and ceremonies.
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Plan and organize project deliverables, goals and milestones.
• Liaison with stakeholders such as clients, end users, vendors and project personnel regarding defining and documenting project requirements and processes.
• Monitor and report project progress, issues and risk to internal and external executive sponsors and stakeholders.
• Assist in owning and executing change management processes.
• Guide project teams through go-live and warranty phases.
• Provide ongoing and post-project evaluations/retrospectives.
• Ensure knowledge transfer or project to appropriate support teams.
• Partner with various IT management teams to ensure appropriate prioritization and resource allocation of projects.
• Own prioritization processes for assigned projects against overall enterprise backlog to ensure teams are focused on highest value work.
• Train, mentor and support other project managers and project teams to follow PMO best practices.

MINIMUM SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required, degree in Information Technology, Communications or related field preferred.
• 4+ years of experience managing IT projects using Waterfall, Agile and/or hybrid methodologies.
• Proven expertise in Agil...