Job Description :
Job Title: Sr. Project Manager
Duration: 4 months
Location: Lansing, MI
Skill required : Emergent Holdings (EH) Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO/PPM Pro) , Oracle Fusion ERP
RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is a contract position on the Emergent Holdings (EH) Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO) team.
This senior project manager position will lead and manage projects advancing the design, maturity and fitness-for-use of project, product and customer cost and revenue data capture, analysis and reporting.
This is an opportunity for an enterprise PM to align and coordinate various IT projects and operations process improvement efforts already in-flight.
Those individual efforts comprise IT solution design, build, test, education, change management and deployment enabling on-going process improvements and operational innovations.
(1)Product, pricing, and profitability solution overview (Project ""3P""):
Consolidate and align legacy work methods, data systems, and responsibilities into an enterprise standard solution establishing customer, product and pricing master data management, data mapping and interfaces (Planview PPM Pro, Salesforce, Oracle cloud finance/procurement/HR), data collection, analytics, and reporting.
Key output of the solution is increased detail, tagging and integrity of pricing and revenue data by project, by product, and by customer.
(2) Project timekeeping and labor costing standardization:
The timekeeping and labor costing standardization enables achievement of ""Project 3P"" objectives.
Consolidate and align legacy work methods, data systems, and responsibilities into an enterprise standard project timekeeping and project labor costing solution. Coordinate and enable improvements to project timesheet templates, submittal, approval, and change control. Improve project timekeeping data mapping and interfaces Planview PPM Pro, Oracle cloud finance/procurement/HR, Jira), data tagging, analytics and reporting.
Key output of the solution is an enterprise-wide project timekeeping model with improved ease of use, improved data accuracy and integrity, reduced manual effort in project timesheet administration, approvals and change control, reduced manual effort in project costing / financial processes, and improved tagging of project hours to named products and customers.
Key responsibilities:
Responsible for day-to-day coordination and facilitation of the project (schedule, work plan, RAID, communications and change mgmt. plan
Lead work plan development and execution in concert with project work group leads.
Document and finalize business processes and supporting data structures and flows for the solutions previously described.
Document and finalize impacted team roles / responsibilities and interactions
Ensure work plans, reports and accountabilities are in place to safeguard current and emerging timekeeping, sales, billing, financial planning and reporting process outcomes thru the legacy system-to-new-solution transition
Reporting to the Director, Portfolio and Project Delivery, this role will support the Project Management Office team
This individual will support SWAT initiatives as defined, lead projects, and generate performance metrics and reporting.
This position will work with all business units to analyze, redefine and monitor workflow to ensure maximum effectiveness to gain efficiencies in support of our goals.
This role will facilitate teams, lead process improvement sessions, create or oversee creation of process and project documentation, visualizations and dashboards using any one of a number of tools including Planview Pro PPM, NetSuite ERP, Salesforce, Access/Excel, Oracle cloud ERP and others as needed.
Other duties can include data analysis, requirements definition, solution design consulting, report design, application development, framework modeling, and testing.
QUALIFICATIONS:
JOB DESCRIPTION UPDATES:
Oracle Fusion ERP Experience
PPM Pro Experience
More business centric rather than heavy IT
Past exposure and comfort in creating process maps and handling a large-scale ERP "go live"
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Top Requirements:
Ten years’ experience with demonstrated technical experience that provides the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities.
Minimum of seven (7) years related technical experience, including four (4) years of project management experience is also required
Effective facilitating groups to define how the software / solution will be used, what processes need to be developed, what roles and responsibilities will be assigned to make those processes and those data flows
More Qualifications:
Excellent written and oral communicator, proficient at navigating SME, leadership and executive levels of the organization.
Strong work ethic and team work skills are required.
Strong MS Office skills, specifically, Visio, Excel, ppt, PowerBI and SharePoint.
Self-started mentality with the ability to work independently on deliverables when necessary.
Ability to proactively anticipate needs, identify and recommend alternative solutions or options.
Willingness to learn new tools and skills quickly.
Natural curiosity and strong desire to solve problems quickly.
Ability to quickly come up-to-speed in a new environment and/or industry.
Detail oriented, documentation and data driven"
Experience in Lean / Process Improvement / Business Process Engineering / Consulting preferred
Experience within Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations highly preferred
Experience with customer relations management (CRM), sales management (Salesforce), quotation management (CPQ) and billing solutions (Fusion subscription management) highly preferred
Experience with account management, service management and business analysis.
PREFERRED:
Experience with account management, service management and business analyst is preferred.
Experience in Lean / Process Improvement / Business Process Engineering / Consulting preferred
EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree required; master’s highly preferred
Combinations of relevant education, certifications, and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required
PMP certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged