Project Manager

Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for managing one or more moderately sized projects generally within a department or across several departments within a division of the company. Project activities include, but are not limited to, establishing clear and achievable objectives and planning and directing people to reach objectives while balancing competing demands for quality, scope, time, and cost, and adapting to different concerns and expectations of stakeholders. Projects will be managed for various departments, without extensive knowledge of the subject matter. This position will collaborate with internal and external business partners to achieve goals and objectives. They are responsible for leading key strategic initiatives of various types, including the execution of application development, product development, operational efficiency improvements, and other efforts.

Responsibilities include :

• Designs, communicates, and implements an operational plan for completing the assigned project(s); monitors progress and performance against the project plan; takes action to resolve operational problems and minimize delays
• Prepares designs and work specifications; develops project schedules, budgets and forecasts; and selecting materials, equipment, project staff, and external contractors
• Manages operational excellence initiatives and development of high quality deliverables within committed time and budget, including proactive problem solving related to any identified risks
• Ensures integrity of original business case, including communication and management of key stakeholders
• Delivers results for project initiatives within established timeframes and quality measures.
• Utilizes communication and reporting mechanisms to manage issues, risks, and timely delivery of initiative results
• Ensures business needs and objectives are effectively captured in functional and non-functional business requirements for a system and / or process / workflow
• Proactively identifies barriers and resolves issues, determining contingency plans (executing as needed), while mitigating risk. Escalates issues to appropriate audiences for awareness and / or additional support
• Manages project budgets to ensure accurate and timely expense reporting, and to anticipate and proactively address budget variances
• Organizes and directs the activities of the project team. Prioritizes tasks to meet deliverables and commitments on time. Ensures that project member's time and experience is well utilized. Recommends alternatives / options to minimize any schedule delay.
• Liaises with other operational areas in the organization to secure specialized resources and contributions for the project
• Utilizes basic project management skills and the corporate standard system development methodology (or other industry methodology) to manage assigned projects
• Champions organization's operational excellence and project management methodologies and tools
• Contributes to continuous improvement of the PMO and supporting procedures to strengthen project execution and risk management
• Manages change control process to ensure conscious scope, schedule, and cost decision-making, and to ensure timely maintenance and communication of changes to business requirements, technical specifications, test plans, project plans, budgets, resource plans, and other project artifacts
• Promotes the benefits of change and act as a catalyst for change within the organization, as well as adapts to change imposed by others

Required knowledge, skills, abilities, and / or related experience include :

Preferred knowledge, skills, abilities and / or related experience include :

Ability to travel : None