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22-00043 |
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Newyork, New York
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Job Title: Sr Project Manager
Location: Newyork, NY
Duration: 6+ months
Soft Skills
- Excellent understanding of global cultures and adapt communication style to fit
- Excellent leadership and facilitation skills
- Excellent customer service with ability to manage customer expectations
- Excellent communicator with strong verbal and written skills at all levels of the organization
- Ability to easily adapt to different communication and working styles
- Active listener
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Self-starter and quick learner; ability to perform without any supervision
- Proven ability to set priorities across a complex program with multiple projects and drive for results
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior IT and business leaders
- Proven ability to set priorities across a portfolio of programs / projects and drive alignment with owners
- Good attention to details
- Work effectively with peers, internal and external clients, third party suppliers, and senior management (Sr Director, VP & Sr VP levels) across geographies in accomplishing portfolio objectives
- Exercise judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to develop corporate methods, techniques
- Evaluate complex situations accurately and identifies viable solutions that create successful outcomes for the customers
- In depth knowledge of how to navigate through matrixed organizations to engage teams and get work done
- Can establish and maintain effective relationships with business and IT customers to gain their trust and respect
- Excellent influencing skills to gain alignment and manage portfolio of programs / projects
- Ability to think strategically and set the agenda for the portfolio
- Flexibility to schedule and oversee work as per client window availability
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Experience
- In depth understanding of project terminology and methodology
- 2-5 years of Portfolio management, 10-15 years of experience managing programs
- Good Experience in Infra & network Project management.
- Ability to lead multi-function program team through influencing skills
- In depth Risk / Issue / Change Management knowledge
- Developing executive level PowerPoint presentations
- Ability to understand interdependencies and can connect the dots on how one program impacts another
- Evaluate complex situations accurately and identifies viable solutions that create successful outcomes for the customer. Hosting meetings, taking meeting notes, and documenting action items
- Ability to organize complex and/or ambiguous information for sponsors
- Organizing program goals / objectives into portfolio with specific priorities / sequencing
- Work closely with the Program Executive Sponsor, Steering Committees and Portfolio Managers to facilitate decisions necessary for delivery and to overcome barriers
- Resolve political, resource, budgeting, change, and legal issues affecting the portfolio.
- Serves as a mentor/advisor/decision-maker to program managers for the portfolio for issues related to corporate politics, external politics, client relations, governmental regulation, project quality, project risk, and safety.
- Oversee development of proposals and requests for proposals associated with the portfolio
- Experience with project management tools like MPP, Clarity
- Ensure tracking of deliverables for multiple initiatives within the program
- Perform kick offs & project overview sessions, lead workshops, requirements and alignment sessions with Sector, Plant, vendor, IT, Engineering and Business as required
- Assist/ Lead POCs, Pilot implementations & document the learnings
- Responsible for preparation of runbooks and testcases
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Interactions
- Global program with multiple Medium to Large Complex projects being managed will typically have:
- Individual team members from numerous cross functional teams and business sectors
- Multiple Service providers needed to deliver components of solution design
- Joint executive program sponsors which requires consensus and stakeholder expectation management
- Involve multiple technology area/towers within solution design (e.g., ERP with multiple ancillary systems, geographically broad infrastructure upgrade)
- Global business customers impacted by program delivery involving multiple sector geographies
- Oversee global program team activities by influencing cross functional team members without direct line of authority (daily)
- Effective communication with executive sponsor(s), Sr Director/VP, in customer organization (weekly)
- IT Services Suppliers coordination to deliver needed IT Services required for project delivery
- Effective communication with executive sponsor(s), Sr Director/VP/SVP, in customer organization (weekly)
- Conduct portfolio review sessions with Sr Dir / VP (monthly)
- Partner with Food and Beverage Portfolio Managers to ensure consistent messaging with IT Leadership (weekly)
- Works with EPMO Portfolio Manager to align on key project artifacts and gains alignment on project governance
- Manage multiple reporting systems/requirements from Program, Business
Works with PQA to ensure project quality requirements are met
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