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GBS
Position Description
GBS Project Management Office (PMO) is seeking a highly motivated senior Project Manager with Agile and waterfall experience to lead, coordinate and execute projects within our PMO Portfolio. The candidate will support a wide variety of compelling high impact projects bringing cross-functional teams together to drive strategic deliverables.
The ideal candidate is passionate about business strategy, supporting product, solutions, operations, and IT initiatives that will grow our business and improve service to our clients and customers. They will partner with business leaders to establish program/product roadmaps and guide our stakeholders on PM best practices promoting effectiveness and transparency.
As a seasoned project manager, you will be accountable for the successful project management of assigned projects. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential to team building and gaining trust with team members. Additionally, the candidate must be diligent in creating project artifacts, and be comfortable with presenting status to senior management.
Additional responsibilities include support of change management/operational readiness activities, working with the business owner to perform impact assessments, and preparing readiness plans to ensure change adoption and success.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate multiple projects by providing unified oversight, ensuring transparency to key stakeholders, and driving successful results. Keep projects on task and aligned to the success criteria/business value established by the business stakeholders.
- Work with senior management and key stakeholders to understand the related business strategies, objectives, and priorities, and ensure alignment in supporting and enabling the business strategy.
- Ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts, and determine when to escalate risks and issues where appropriate within a project; makes suggestions and recommendations.
- Identify and manage project dependencies that may not be known or identifiable at the project level, and lead efforts to develop approaches for managing such issues.
- Partners closely with the business project lead and Technology Project Managers facilitating close coordination throughout the project lifecycle. Acts as a liaison with stakeholders across the company.
- Assess and manage risk within projects and make strategic recommendations for changes to current and future project plans and overall requirements to meet organizational needs.
- Knowledge sharing and mentoring of junior project managers.
- Communicate project information to all stakeholders to a level appropriate to their needs.
- Proven ability in establishing successful long term business relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Utilizes and champions PMO service model for standard approach to project management and governance and provides feedback on model effectiveness.
- Has full ownership of large projects, adept at measuring success while also looking for opportunities for improvement.
Essential Requirements and Experience
Functional Knowledge:
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a business-related field
- A minimum of 10 years experience in Project Management (Insurance/Finance industry preferred)
- Certifications in PMP (Project Management Professional) or Agile are preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in project software: SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office 365, Visio, and Teams
- Knowledge of Agile tools such as JIRA preferred
- Knowledge of Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) is a plus
- Ability to build reports and presentations with appropriate details for varying audiences
- Superior organization skills with attention to detail
- Ability to execute strategies and track and measure results
- Work effectively in a team environment, motivate and lead teams towards a common project goal
- Ability to clearly communicate expectations
- Proven negotiating and consensus building skills
- Ability to work effectively and achieve results across internal functional areas and external parties in ambiguous situations
• Proven record of achievement
Leadership Attributes:
- Ability to build strong working relationships and work effectively both independently, and as a collaborative team player
- Ability to understand the corporate and business area culture/dynamics and pro-actively/quickly adapt to them
- Demonstrated ability to work well across organizations and with cross-functional teams
- Strong negotiation, organization, and time management skills are required. Must be adept at managing multiple project assignments at any given time.
- Displays passion for their work and has ability to engage and energize others
- Inspires project team collaboration and cohesiveness amongst all team members while supplying motivation and feedback
• Professional demeanor
- Excellent independent thinker, with ability to exercise sound judgement
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and demonstrated ability to work with limited direction and autonomy
Communications:
- Diplomatically communicates, persuades, and influences others to build consensus across the teams.
- Strong, polished, interpersonal, communication (verbal and written) skills. Presents ideas to effectively interact with management and a diverse set of business and technical stakeholders.
- Ability to lead teams in a results-oriented and collaborative manner.
- Highly skilled in communicating clearly and concisely and at the right level of detail for the intended audience.
- Prepares communications regarding roadmaps, strategy, innovation, project direction, decisions, issues, risks, and status for management.
It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible. Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is 2 weeks from the Posting Date listed above.
Salary range: $115,000-$150,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Click here to learn more about our benefits. Starting salary is dependent upon several factors including previous work experience, specific industry experience, and/or skills required.
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