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Job Description
- This is an exciting opening for a motivated business professional with a strong experience in Project Management and related disciplines to co-lead our dynamic consulting team. This role typically includes day to day exposure to a diverse range of clients and industries in a progressive, challenging and supportive environment.
- As a Sr. Project Manager you are expected to highly manage a diverse portfolio of clients and play a leadership role in the development of the PMO unit. This is a key role with world-class expectations to make a real impact during an exciting expansion phase of the business.
- This is an opportunity to join a leading risk management consultancy firm, providing top notch end-to-end Project Management solutions to a diverse client base, in a demanding market dynamics.
Job description
The following are the expected activities of a Sr. Project Manager
Project /Practice Management
- Creates and executes project plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities.
- Manages day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
- Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
- Effectively applies our methodology and enforces project standards.
- Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
- Minimizes our exposure and risk on project.
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
Project Accounting
- Tracks and reports team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
- Manages project budget.
- Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures timely and accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for project.
- Follows up with clients, when necessary, regarding unpaid invoices.
- Analyzes project profitability, and utilization.
Financial Management
- Understands basic revenue models, P/L, and cost-to-completion projections and makes decisions accordingly.
- Understands our pricing model and billing procedures.
- Accurately forecasts profitability, and utilization.
- Assures project legal documents are completed and signed.
Business Development
- Identifies business development and "add-on" sales opportunities as they relate to a specific project.
- Leads proposal efforts including completing project scoping and LOE assessments.
- Effectively conveys our message in both written and verbal business development discussions.
Communication
- Facilitates team and client meetings effectively.
- Holds regular status meetings with project team.
- Keeps project team well informed of changes within the organization and general corporate news.
- Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors.
- Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.
- Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion.
- Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
Technical Understanding
- Possesses general understanding in the areas of enterprise risk management, business continuity management, and crisis management.
- Possesses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
- Understands Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.
- Possesses a thorough understanding of our capabilities.
- Maintains awareness of new and emerging technologies and the potential application on client engagements.
Leadership
- Challenges others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model and mentor.
- Manages the development of team by ensuring, when possible, that project tasks are in line with each Innovator's career interests.
- Inspires coworkers to attain goals and pursue excel
Job Requirements
The successful candidate is expected to have:
- Extensive project management experience
- Experience working in a PMO with a formal established framework
- Excellent Microsoft Project skills
- Exemplary communication skills, written and oral
- Experienced in operating in a matrix-management structure
- Good financial analysis skills, including budget preparation and tracking
- Demonstrable presentation and influencing skills
- Current Project Management Certificate is a must
- Prince2 is a great Plus
- Microsoft Project Server skills
- Experience of working across time zones and cultures
- Effective use of Visio and SharePoint
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong technical skills
- Attention to detail
- Strong team skills
- History of on-time, quality delivery
- Knowledge of cost analysis
- Ability to lead teams and strong leadership skills
- Experience running large global projects
- Knowledge of foreign languages
- Strong management resource allocation skills
- Vendor management skills
- Cultural tolerance
- Unrestricted ability to travel
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