Sr. Project Manager - Software PMO

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Effectively manage cross-functional development teams across the Business Unit and Shared Services, providing oversight on critical projects, and ensuring the teams deliver against their commitments within the project…
• Manages the project plan by identifying critical path, constraints, contingencies and mitigations to achieve project objectives.
• Ongoing collaboration with the cross-functional teams to update weekly / monthly / quarterly reports on project status and ensure that cross-product dependencies are understood, planned for, and crisply executed
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions
• Provides regular updates in form of status updates and stage gate review presentations with highlighting risks and mitigation plans to senior management
• Works across the organization and external partners (as needed) to align functional support and input for the project
• Ensures Project management processes are followed per relevant procedures by functional team members.
• Contributes to Project management process optimization and strategies via lessons learned, resource leveling, process input and sharing and developing best practices

Job requirements

• Four-year degree (Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent). MS/MA/MBA is a plus.
• 8 + years with a bachelor’s degree or 6 years with a masters degree.
• This must include hands-on experience with development and commercialization of highly technical regulated software (SW) application .
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office; proficient knowledge of program/project management software (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, collaboration tools).
• Strong project management, planning, decision making, negotiating and change management skills Comfortable with all phases of the project and product lifecycle including idea generation, concept, design, development,…
• Experience in analyzing tradeoffs between product features, customer needs/requirements and cost
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize data, set actionable goals and drive metrics and execution
• Experience with Business Process Management