Senior Project Manager

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities.

Culture

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview

As a Senior Project Manager NYC – Government Solutions, you will play a key role in providing world class support to our external client and internal teams by managing the end-to-end implementation of the NYCDOT technical programs, and ensuring they are delivered in a timely manner. No challenge will be too big, and no issue will go unsolved! You are responsible for tracking the status of all programs / projects as assigned by working with different stakeholders, managing customer expectations, providing status reports to management, active risk and issue management, and drive risks/issues/actions to closure. You will create and manage project plans, communicate schedules with different stakeholders and ensure successful delivery of all projects and expected client outcomes. You will work in a highly collaborative environment with a team that is geographically distributed. You will adhere to agile software development processes accepted by the organization. The candidate should have excellent analytical and interpersonal abilities and always look to streamline processes and bring in efficiencies. Performs other duties as required.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for project management of the NYCDOT client implementation program.
• Partner with a cross-functional project team to deliver program on time, on budget and according to contractual requirements.
• Lead workshops with external and internal stakeholders to align on client expectations and business requirements, and develop project plans to drive the implementation of the expected client outcomes.
• Develop, distribute, and manage consolidated project plans, status reports, dashboards and communicate with external and internal stakeholders.
• Actively manage risks, issues, actions, and dependencies and communicate to maintain alignment.
• Partner with the Account Management team to manage customer expectations through concise and timely communication.
• Compile, track, and report on project financials throughout the client implementation program lifecycle.
• Work collaboratively with all Verra Mobility staff, customers and suppliers in a fast-paced environment.
• Effectively manage time and shifting priorities for self and delivery team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience in large client project implementations (min. $10 million).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems Degree required.
• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) required.
• Automated traffic enforcement industry, camera-based intelligent transport systems industry, or similar industry experience desired.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to communicate, build relationships and collaborate with a diverse range and level of external and internal stakeholders.
• Experience in managing projects and schedules using Microsoft Project. Outcome oriented and capable of meeting deadlines. Strong project control and organizational skills and qualities.
• Must understand the agile development methodology, applicable roles, and processes. Experienced in Agile Scrum Software Development practices and tools.
• Strong problem-resolution, and analytical skills.
• Experience in coaching, leading and influencing others.
• Adaptable, flexible, and willing to embrace constant change.
• Experienced with MS Office products like Excel, PowerPoint to generate reports and dashboards.

Verra Mobility Values

An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:

• Own It.We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
• Do What’s Right.We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
• Lead with Grace. We express humility and compassion, and we are authentic and candid. Our employees demonstrate self-awareness, care for others, instill trust, and communicate effectively.
• Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.

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Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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