This Sr. Project Manager role lives within the customer engagement arm of the Granicus’ Digital Services Implementation Team and is a key member of the Implementation Services (IS) team. This team helps customers (government agencies) create valued online services, and partners with customer to enhance the way that government organizations support their communities through strategic experience management.
As a Sr. Project Manager, you will be key partner in the successful rollout of projects across our customer base. This role is perfect for an individual with a passion for helping customers reach their strategic objectives. Your role starts at project kick-off by providing the client with a project plan, oversight of discovery, and requirements gathering, and ensuring the client receives the appropriate training for their implementation – where customers are both enabled and encouraged to utilize the system to its fullest potential.
What your impact will look like:
- Manage large customer projects during the implementation lifecycle.
- Serve as the primary point of contact on large programs of work for high-touch clients, providing insights on system performance, best practices and updates on state of account (status of enhancement requests, support tickets, etc.).
- Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
- Serve as an advisor to the customer as they improve their online processes – keeping each personas experience top-of-mind at every turn.
- Track progress against milestones, budgetary guidelines, or other performance indicators, and prepares reports to senior management.
- Create and maintain project plans, project status reports, and other relevant project documentation.
- Identify potential implementation risks and mitigation – as early as possible.
- Evaluate and assess customer business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
- Enable customers to utilize the AMANDA Product by creating project plans aligned to their implementation goals.
- With client relationship skills, have the ability to mitigate risk, deescalate tense situations, and bring solutions to the table that are a win-win for both client and Granicus.
- Participate in sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings and provide feedback to the team.
- Collaborate and work closely with internal partners. You will be fostering relationships with coworkers across the company to support their efforts while delivering products.
- Other duties as assigned.
You'll love this job if you have:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in program/project management, preferably in a customer-facing role.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a proven track record of building and maintaining strong relationships with clients.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
- Strong analytical skills and experience with data analysis and trend analysis to identify opportunities and areas of improvement.
- Knowledge of project management tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Ability to manage conflict and influence decision-making at all levels of the organization.
- Strong organizational and planning skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-faceted projects.
- Proven experience in proactively gathering information about product performance, customer feedback, and market trends to identify areas of improvement and opportunities for growth.
- Solid understanding of Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
- Proactive and data driven.
- Demonstrate and ensure timely and thorough communication of strategy, deliverable status, and results.
- Have a proven ability to flex between the technical and business sides of your brain – engineers and cross-functional team members alike love to work with you.
- Can work with multiple cross-functional teams to build and evaluate business cases to support product investment decisions.
- Have excellent communications skills – listening, verbal, and written.
- Help drive your team’s success and are a self-starter.
Preferred skills:
- Are bilingual (English and French) –preferred.
- Have served as a program manager for high-touch clients.
- Possess a Project Management Professional Certification or Equivalent.
- Have experience working with remote teams.
- Have experience with city/county level planning, and possess an understanding of land-use regulations, zoning laws, and enforcement strategies.
- Have previous experience with the AMANDA product.
Security requirements
- Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
- Must be willing and able to obtain/maintain a Secret-level security clearance through the Government of Canada. Details regarding the requirements for a Secret-level security clearance can be found on this website:https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/msc-csm/chap4-eng.html#s42