Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job summary 1

A Senior Project Manager will contribute to the company's success by planning, executing, and managing medium to large projects using sound judgment, strong interpersonal skills, and effective tools and techniques. Projects typically require both a business and technology focus, and may deliver new or enhanced capabilities to multiple functional areas; or, may support a larger cross-functional program being managed by a program manager.

Duties & Responsibilities 1

• Elicit, accurately characterize, and document project goals, scope, stakeholders, risks, issues, success measures, effort, and resource estimates
• Ensure that all required sub-projects and activities are identified, planned, and managed
• • Create, maintain, and deliver communication plans, status updates, charters, schedules, and budgets
  • Proactively manage projects to deliver them in-scope, on time, and on budget while enforcing checkpoints and managing change-control
  • Maintain an objective, fact-based perspective and encourage teams to display transparency on the status and to proactively recommend opportunities to improve

Requirements & Skills 1

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience with 5+ Years project management
• Knowledge of project management tools, techniques, and processes including JIRA
• Knowledge of software application development and SDLC including Waterfall and Agile
• • Knowledge of information technology including networking, hardware, and infrastructure
  • Strong interpersonal, collaboration, negotiation, escalation, and influencing skills
  • Strong business and organizational acumen, leadership abilities, good judgment, appropriateness, and courage

Job summary 2

The Senior Project Manager will report to the Assistant Director of Information Technology (IT) in the Program Management Office (PMO). This manager is responsible for delivering vital enterprise software applications/infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have experience as a senior project manager for a software development team executing the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The Senior Project Manager may oversee, direct, assign duties, and evaluate the work of their team members and project staff. The manager performs advanced levels of project management work, works under limited supervision, and has considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. This individual will work with a wide range of team members, including senior leadership throughout the agency, and serve as a representative of IT.

Duties & Responsibilities 2

• Process Consistency: Directs, develops, evaluates, and establishes processes used by application project teams to ensure the teams are adhering to procedures consistently and confirms scope and schedule changes are documented, approved, and understood by stakeholders and project team members. Oversees and develops project budgets, schedules, works plans, resource requirements with resource managers, cost estimates, and projections. Documents and monitors exceptions to standard IT policies, processes, and best practices.
• Deliverable Quality: Oversees, monitors, and manages the quality of multiple highly complex applications and works to identify continuous improvement measures/root causes and corrective actions. Verifies project deliverables are acceptable, fulfill terms of the team agreements, and are within time and budget. May oversee the deliverables of contract work.
• • Customer Satisfaction: Communicates routinely to management, customers, project team members, and other stakeholders, actively soliciting and addressing customer and project team feedback.
  • Leadership: Responsible for problem management, issue resolution, and risk identification and mitigation, while empowering and motivating the team to have a sense of ownership over the application. Establish and manage a cross-functional team.
  • Vision: Articulates a clear view (current and future) of the application to the executive management team, customers, and project team. Evaluate enterprise-level projects on defining and meeting strategic goals and objectives for projects; coordinate the initiation and planning of diverse projects to meet application and technology roadmap commitments. Balance and articulate the effort of the functionality with the value for the IT applications.

Requirements & Skills 2

• Experience as a Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability, and effective delivery of digital solutions
• Experience in managing delivery of customer-facing digital solutions preferred
• Strong grasp of current web technologies as well as related business issues
• PMI or PMP certification or similar
• Experience in multiple software development lifecycles, including waterfall and agile
• Solid technical understanding and ability to define and refine requirements through a project lifecycle
• • Excellent project management skills including prioritization, scheduling, and documentation
  • Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external groups
  • High energy and enthusiasm and ability to succeed in a dynamic work environment

Job summary 3

The primary responsibilities of the Senior Project Manager are to manage project scope, timelines, budget, and the effective and high-quality delivery of key digital solutions. They lead and motivate cross-functional project teams, making timely decisions to ensure project success within set parameters. They ensure expectations are communicated and met across internal teams and business stakeholders.

Duties & Responsibilities 3

• Responsible for management and delivery of digital projects to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery of our consumer-facing experiences
• Manages multiple projects and tasks simultaneously and effectively
• Proactively works with business analysts, product managers, design, user experience, development, and QA to understand project requirements and estimate effort to deliver
• Oversees project from initial funding approval through delivery, including overall continuing project maintenance if needed
• Ensures ongoing resource needs are captured and utilization rates are maintained across their cross-functional team(s)
• Seeks out the vendor or internal solutions and manages overall project issue resolutions
• Responsible for coordination of final delivery of digital applications or functionality, including user acceptance testing and final sign-off
• Responsible for management and communication of budget status and tasks among team members and business stakeholders
• • Provides ongoing project update reports to internal teams and partners
  • Communicates project status to global business stakeholders regularly
  • Oversees asset and documentation management for projects

Requirements & Skills 3

• High school diploma and Project Management certification.
• Requires mobility.
• Requires the use of office equipment such as multi-line telephone systems, fax machines, telexes, copy machines, computers, and calculators.
• Requires reaching up to 24 inches. Requires the ability to distinguish letters, numbers, and symbols. Requires hand/eye coordination.
• • Requires the ability to work long hours and endure stressful conditions.
  • Ability to be extremely flexible.
  • Regular predictable attendance required.

Job summary 4

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing assigned programs in support of business objectives to ensure the account’s satisfaction with service. This responsibility encompasses a variety of activities that require consistent directing, planning, scheduling, and tracking of tasks.

Duties & Responsibilities 4

• Manage project from requirements, through quality products, and timely delivery
• Document and receive sign-off on requirements
• Maintain and update project plan shared internally and with client
• Maintain meeting notes and share them with the client
• Issue PARs and CARs as necessary
• Follow procedures in place
• Client billing and initial follow-up on collections
• Contract knowledge - should be in a folder on the desk
• Process documentation for backup to run the project smoothly while out
• Understand project and budget
• Conduct business reviews to include CPIs
• Change management
• Manage and track issues and close the loop with the client
• • Internal escalation management
  • Understand back-end and IT process
  • Manage new implementations

Requirements & Skills 4

• Combination of 10 years of education and IT services experience.
• • Experience in specific technology areas including networking, storage, infrastructure lifecycle services, and enterprise systems.
  • Project Management Professional (PMI) certification is required within 6 months of placement in the Senior Project Manager role. Active PMI membership is preferred.
  • Proficient in Microsoft tools including, but not limited to, Microsoft Office, MS Project, MS Project Server, and SharePoint.

Job summary 5

As Senior Project Manager, you will enter a high-energy and tech-savvy world. We are looking for someone who is a team player, an excellent communicator and has client engagement experience. If you’re a strong leader who is self-starting, a great problem-solver, and motivated, then you could be a perfect fit!

Duties & Responsibilities 5

• Multi-task – You will develop and implement project schedules to meet deadlines, all while ensuring your project maintains profitability. Plus you will engage in ongoing client meetings to ensure client satisfaction.
• • Take Ownership – You will manage, direct and oversee all aspects of your projects.
  • Be a Leader – You will motivate your team to find successful solutions.
  • Be Challenged – Your job is never done as a Senior Project Manager. You will be presenting the Company to prospective clients, managing your current clients, and assisting the sales team with business development activities; all in a single day’s work.

Requirements & Skills 5

• 5+ years of experience as a project or program manager managing, large, complex enterprise IT projects
• record of successfully managing complex projects from inception to closure
• Experience with establishing and contributing to process improvements
• Experience in dealing with complex projects and multicultural and multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, leadership skills, analytical ability, and business judgment
• • Ability to work effectively across a widely diverse management team, as well as a broad spectrum of internal and external partners
  • Detail-oriented and able to work in a very fast-paced environment
  • Balance of business and technical background

Job summary 6

The team is looking for a Senior Project Manager. In this role, you’ll actively manage projects to successful completion from initiation through delivery and closure. This requires excellent coordination of cross-functional teams, through meetings and progress measurement activity, which bring distinct, specific projects to completion on time and within budget. You should be an experienced project management professional with a full understanding of industry-standard project management practices. You will work on problems with diverse scopes, evaluate identifiable factors, and demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. You'll also need excellent communication skills and the ability to support multiple teams.

Duties & Responsibilities 6

• Control project requirements, scope, and change management issues
• Determine, monitor, and review all project economics including costs, operational budgets, staffing requirements, resources, and risk
• Ensure adherence to legally binding requirements
• Facilitate the development of recommended project control solutions to be used for planning, scheduling, and tracking projects through the integration of various project management tools
• Work with management on project proposals, bids, contracts, estimates, and schedules and contribute to the project estimation process
• Plan, schedule, monitor, and report on activities related to the project, including subcontractor monitoring
• Establish appropriate metrics for measuring key project criteria
• Develop project control and reporting procedures and manage changes in the operational plan
• • Undertake status review meetings among project team members and customers
  • Assist in the training of the project team on the application of appropriate procedures and motivate team members to accomplish project goals, meet established schedules, and resolve technical and operational issues
  • Maintain awareness on emerging technologies and project management techniques

Requirements & Skills 6

• 3+ years of relevant project management experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred
• Able to build rapport quickly to establish trust, respect, and confidence that builds excellent working relationships with colleagues and internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization, and external vendors, to ensure objectives are understood, expectations set and appropriate business engagement is in place throughout the project or program lifecycle
• Excellent facilitation skills to conduct meetings and workshops that encourage attendees to participate and collaborate effectively and efficiently ranging from small ideation sessions to internal conferences, to formal steering groups
• Facilitate planning with teams to generate and develop plans and roadmaps that provide clarity for the team and sponsors, drawing on a variety of estimation techniques and planning tools
• Ensure the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and guidelines are understood and adhered too
• An excellent understanding of the Agile and Lean frameworks
• • Experienced and knowledgeable in Agile and Waterfall methodologies, as well as other forecast and estimation tools and technics
  • Qualified in a recognized Project Management methodology (Prince II, PMI, etc)
  • Extremely competent in using Microsoft Office, specifically advanced Excel and PowerPoint

Job summary 7

This Senior Project Manager will deliver projects in a mixed methodology environment, providing a consistent, reliable service to sponsors, stakeholders, colleagues, and the Global PMO Team. In this role, you will manage and deliver unique projects by coordinating activities within the project team and you will be able to adapt to different areas of the business to meet demands. You will be considered an expert in project management. You will provide advice, coaching, and support on all aspects of teamwork, project management, governance and control, methodologies, and the organization of the business. The Senior Project Manager will understand the importance of setting objectives and agreeing on a set of key results to demonstrate the success of outcomes and initiatives. Crucially, this role requires a great communicator with the ability to communicate through metrics, showcases, and presentations and tailor messages appropriately for the target audience whether discussing project health with the executive team or presenting at a conference. The person in this role will have the ability and gravitas to lead, inspire and motivate teams. Our team is looking for a team player who works closely with peers to agree on effective strategies for delivering business outcomes. And, one who will ensure team structures support delivery and will help teams deliver rapidly and safely.

Duties & Responsibilities 7

• Manage and deliver unique projects and coordinate activities within the project team
• Ability to adapt to different areas of the business to manage and deliver work where needed
• Knowledgeable and experienced in project management across different functional areas within the business
• Provide advice, coaching, and support on all aspects of teamwork, project management, governance and control, methodologies, and organization of the business
• Proven experience within the field of Project Management
• Analyse and provide regular status reports that are objective and reflect the true state of progress
• Ensure that projects/programs are executed within specified timeframes and budget by quality and benefit targets using defined controls, processes, and support tools
• Collaborate with teams to identify, log, track, and resolve principles of professional project management such as Risk, Issue, Dependency, Decision and Change Management, Resource, and Capacity Management and leverage these to improve control and visibility
• Coordinate activities to promote workflow and manage escalations either within the team or to sponsors and executives when needing to steer
• Manage the complete lifecycle and facilitate the team to transition from phase to phase
• • You will be passionate about continuous improvement and the benefits that formal improvement techniques can bring to the organization
  • Champion, maintain and improve PMO best practices to ensure the company and new members of the team are aware of and understand the value of these processes and principles
  • Provide advice and guidance to new or junior members of the team and provide support to colleagues and managers alike

Requirements & Skills 7

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Software/System Development Lifecycle methodology knowledge
• 5 years of related experience
• Project Management Institute certification (PMP)
• Six Sigma certification
• Previous experience planning and managing large projects
• Ability to shift easily between tactical and strategic work, and vice versa
• Ability to juggle all the requirements/volume and continuously deliver
• Ability to span many approaches to agile such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD.)
• Mentors and trains other PMs and/or partners
• Ability to identify and assess project risks, mitigate threats and capitalize on opportunities.
• Has enough experience and insight to anticipate issues and solve them proactively.
• • Knows the right questions to ask, and gets up to speed quickly.
  • Ability to be attuned to the needs of a project environment that is increasingly global, virtual, and complex.
  • Demonstrates understanding of the business value of the project and its broader impact on programs, initiatives, and the enterprise.

Job summary 8

The Senior Project Manager oversees various system projects and programs of a highly complex nature. The Senior Project Manager's work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where analyzing situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Duties & Responsibilities 8

• Assembles and leads a program team, identifies appropriate resources needed, and develops schedules to ensure the program continues to deliver value.
• Actively manages stakeholder partnerships and mitigates risks.
• Will be familiar with the system scope and program objectives, as well as the role and function of each team member, to effectively coordinate the activities of the team.
• When managing programs, oversees the interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects, sets strategies, and leads program execution to deliver longer-term business value.
• Will possess specialized knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) frameworks used to manage risks and issues unique to technology projects.
• Begins to influence the department’s strategy.
• Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approaches for project components, and work is performed without direction.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
• Leadership accountability for projects that build a new application or introduce new technology.
• Projects may involve contracting, new vendor selection, or activities to manage new vendor partnerships/integration.
• Ability to lead through influence in both teams and across matrixes and to negotiate and/or resolve conflicts effectively.
• Ability to Lead and Build teams that are both high-functioning and highly engaged, collaborative, and cohesive.
• Ability to work up and downstream easily, including knowing or seeking out the right people for resources, help, or advice.
• Regularly and willingly shares knowledge and mentors others.
• Appreciate individual uniqueness, respect people and encourage sharing of ideas, create an environment where everyone can fully be themselves, reflecting all of us and the communities we serve.
• Replace judgment with curiosity, thoughtful questions, and listening.
• Celebrate the broadest possible range of diverse cultures, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
• • Collaborate openly; building positive relationships to achieve strong, sustainable results for us and the people we serve.
  • Seek to reduce friction points and create quality experiences.
  • Engage people in decisions that will impact them.

Requirements & Skills 8

• Bachelor's degree in Business preferred.
• Five years experience.
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite and G-Suite software with experience using a CRM platform.

Job summary 9

The Senior Project Manager will provide overall direction and management of complex projects for key customers. They will ensure the completion of projects on time and within budget.

Duties & Responsibilities 9

• Work with customer to ensure that internal schedule is consistent with job schedule and manage schedule changes both internally and externally
• Work closely with sales and accounting to establish and manage a schedule of values for progress billing.
• Maintain project budget throughout each project, with profit and loss accountability.
• • Identify opportunities for change orders and establish cost through communication with sales, estimating, and engineering where applicable.
  • Prepare, issue and track change order status material, labor, and services above and beyond the original contract.
  • Review purchase orders and specifications on new jobs to ensure the work scope is consistent with the bid.

Requirements & Skills 9

• Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, or other related fields
• 10+ years experience in the design and development of application systems, including project management experience, with demonstrated ability to lead innovative and successful projects
• Strong background and experience in project management methodologies (including Agile) and application development
• • With Knowledge and understanding of the management of systems within a manufacturing environment, Oracle ERP E-Business Suite strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated excellent communication, organization, and planning skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate functional and technical teams

Job summary 10

The Senior Project Manager is dedicated to project and people management activities. The individual in this position is expected to manage complex IT projects, be responsible for the review and evaluation of proposed business applications, and ensure the successful delivery of technical and business solutions. This is a working leadership position with project and people (e.g. analysts, developers, and consultants) management responsibilities.

Duties & Responsibilities 10

• Lead complex projects and large project teams in the design, development, and delivery of optimal application solutions
• Be responsible for the creation, organization, execution, and successful completion of specific projects within budget and scope
• Perform typical project management activities including the development of project plans and schedules, task management, resource planning, and communication of status to stakeholders
• Evaluate complex business requests based on pre-defined criteria and translate them into project proposals
• Stay informed of the latest business and technology trends and recommend improvements to current paradigms and processes
• • Lead in the development and continual improvement of departmental standards, methodologies, procedures, and tools
  • Manage and/or perform design and documentation tasks compliant with departmental procedures
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements & Skills 10