Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Long Beach, CA
Position Type: Full Time or Contract
Qualifications and Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Project Management as part of a PMO.
- Full project/program lifecycyle experience required.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred.
- PMP, PMI ACP, or CSM certification desirable.
- Expertise in Waterfall methodology required, Agile methodology experience desirable.
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral) required.
- Demonstrated experience managing program stakeholders and senior level executives.
- Experience managing vendor relationships
- Enterprise Project Planning tool experience required. Clarizen experience would be a big plus.
- Experience managing large scale, enterprise level technology infrastructure and/or information security initiatives required.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Flexible and willing to perform roles as assigned (e.g., scrum master role, business analyst role, etc. basedon project needs)
- Acquire and maintain an understanding of the end to end business processes that pertain to the project. Use that understanding to help stakeholders confirm and manage scope.
- Enable impactful business transformation by driving outcomes that are in full alignment with critical success factors.
- Generate deep insights to locate the most impactful levers for action.
- Clearly define ROI & ensure ability to measure.
- Drive user adoption, engagement & utilization.
- Be outcome focused – own, update and evolve. Lead stakeholders in charting a roadmap that is alignment with strategic business direction that will help deliver benefits and ROI on based on project execution.
- Lead complex, large scale projects.
- Provide leadership as required to organize and implement program/project governance including steering committees, internal and external communication, etc.
- Demonstrate a high level of competency with ACE program/project lifecycle methodologies and/or other best practices such as PMBOK to define and execute project management processes.
- Remove obstacles blocking the project team including locating and engaging needed people, processes and/or data.
- Engage and frequently present to stakeholders and executives.
- Foster strong relationships with IT and stakeholders.
- Increase the level of engagement and buy-in from all stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively, accurately and expediently.
- Own relationships and drive interactions.
- Lead organizational change as required.
- Deliver recommendations to improve existing processes and/or create new processes to improve quality and deliver efficiency.
- Identify and manage risks, issues and action items.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plan to include milestones, tasks, and target/actual dates of completion.
- Be able to demonstrate impact of requested scope and/or timeline change to overall schedule and budget to help inform stakeholders and sponsors.
- Develop and maintain project budget and manage actuals to the approved budget
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