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- Responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more business units.
- Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle.
- This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.
- The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis.
- Verify that the project produces the required deliverable of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.
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- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business;
- Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones;
- Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously;
- Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives;
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities;
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence;
- Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project;
- Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes;
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings;
- Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews;
- Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs;
- Support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices;
- Act as an internal quality control check for the project and Manage ongoing quality control and participate in quality issue resolution;
- Support formal/informal schedules to manage the engagement contract
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- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any related field from an accredited institution.
- Experience in Requirement Management tools such as: Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational,
- 5+ years of project management experience, including tracking and planning projects
- 3+ years of experience with full product lifecycle with understanding of development lifecycle and various technology methodologies that support that lifecycle
- Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
- Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
