Job Description :
Senior Project Manager
Location: Southfield, MI
Duration: 13 months
Description:
Requesting Department: Visiant
Top 3 Skills Required:
- Create project charters (defining business problem, scope, KPIs, and target outcomes) and detailed project plans
- Effectively manage on-time completion of project milestones, and adhere to relevant change control processes
- Manage concurrent projects involving cross-functional project teams with members from IT, business operations, process engineering, program management office, and product development
Responsibilities/Tasks:
- Lead executive level project reviews and successfully manage stakeholder expectations
- Establish a deep understanding of the project content and be able to clearly articulate the business value, required timeline and business/operational impact of delays
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the project content, project ownership and accountability for the success of the project
- Create business cases with cost-benefit analyses to develop financial value and ROI of projects
- Measure and communicate project status and key performance indicators (KPIs) to executive stakeholders (both written updates and in-person updates) on a weekly and monthly basis
- Create and execute contingency plans, as needed, to deliver outcomes and value when roadblocks arise
- Identify and communicate roadblocks or issues as they arise, and develop corrective action plans to get project or activity to “green” status
Employment Qualifications:
Bachelor''s degree in a related field and Project Management Professional certification is required (PMP, PgMP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP Minimum of seven (7) years of project management experience required.
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities (SKA) Required:
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel are required, with emphasis on manipulation (and analysis) of data
- Advanced skills in Microsoft PowerPoint are required, with emphasis executive presentations
- Solid understanding of Microsoft Project for effective project management.
- Data quality / data validation techniques to ensure information published or presented is accurate
- Excellent analytical and problem resolution skills are required
- Experience building business cases with financial value and cost data
- Effective communication skills, with experience presenting to vice-president and director levels
- Effective organization and time management skills are required
- Ability to appropriately manage resources, budgets, issues, and risks for the successful completion of projects.
- Must demonstrate leadership ability and team building skills to effectively lead teams of non-direct reports to deliver outcomes
- Ability to manage cross-functional projects without supervision.
- Build effective business relationships and partnerships across the organization to deliver outcomes
- Ability to establish rapport and maintain customer satisfaction without compromising priorities
- Ability to interact with others to build consensus and get decisions implemented
- Ability to establish workflows, manages multiple projects, and meet necessary deadlines
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
Education Requirements:
Bachelor''s degree required, Master''s degree preferred.