Sr. Project Manager/ Project Manager - TechDigital

Summary:

This position is 12+ months in delivering a technical solution for various projects and is responsible for meeting with business/technical partners directly, facilitate/lead requirements/WBS gathering sessions (white boarding, brainstorming), plans, coordinates, monitor and drives risks, issues and timelines, managing the full lifecycle including resource allocation, progress 7tracking and monitoring change control.
The successful candidate will be able to quickly understand and resolve issues, mitigate risks and dependencies and the ability to drive projects to completion.

Details:

Analyzes business and user needs, documentation of requirements per company standards, and translation into proper system requirement specifications.

Participate in solution option evaluations with IT teams and business partners.

Responsible for initial planning and estimation of projects and requests.

Interfaces with PMO on developing a comprehensive project plan and leading business partners in their areas such as training, testing, operational changes/plans, user acceptance testing and deployment to the field (global locations).

Drives the project team to deliver timeline, critical milestones and overall deliverables of the project.

Essential Skills and Competencies:

Strong project delivery skills

Excellent interpersonal skills, including oral and written communication skills

Relevant experience as a Technical Project Manager

Excellent organizational skills

Exceptional documentation skills written and diagrams

Ability to adapt and excel in a fast paced, dynamic work environment

Ability to manage changing priorities and make sound business decisions.

Ability to own and drive issues to resolution, sense of urgency with strong follow-up skills

Minimum 4+ years' experience in MS Word, MS Excel(Advanced), MS Visio, and MS Project

Position requires strong collaboration skills and the ability to interact and collaborate with other IT teams

Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with stakeholders.

Develop full-scale project plans, schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

Manage schedule, dependencies, and resource utilization across work plans.

Monitor and manage expectations, conduct milestone reviews, manage process performance, conduct continuous improvement and causal analysis activities.

Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project - oversee the implementation of corrective actions and review current mitigation and resolution activities.

Conduct project close-outs and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Preferred Skills:

Experience working with Agile/DevOps development methodologies

Experience with Automation platforms and tools

Familiarity working within multiple domains (Technology, Information, Process, Applications, etc.) and platforms (mainframe, client-server, web-based, etc.)