Description:
The Project Manager (CPQ/Sales Applications) role involves traditional project management responsibilities for large scale projects with global, enterprise-wide impact. This individual will lead various Business Systems’ projects to successful completion as stand-alone projects or within Customer Experience (CRM, CPQ) programs. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring that project objectives are achieved on time and on budget, while meeting quality goals of the program.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for leading, planning, execution, and completion of large scale complex projects. Monitors and controls project activities from initiation through delivery.
- Accountable for Project Management planning and execution tasks, including, but not limited to, scope, scheduling, budgeting, costing, resource, risk and issue management.
- Continuously assesses project health, anticipating risk and developing effective mitigation plans that maintain committed project plan.
- Develops and manages project recovery plans when necessary, minimizing impact to project commitments.
- Collects and analyzes data required to create effective written status reports. Creates and delivers effective written and verbal project status reports.
- Proactively engages stakeholders, providing timely, relevant, and transparent project status.
- Identifies task dependencies as they arise and takes action to ensure that project schedule is unimpeded by dependencies.
- Facilitate cross-functional planning and project execution,
- Provide executive-level program updates to Program Management Team.
- Monitor team schedules and ensure coordination of activities on the critical path.
- Develop reporting and tracking programs to assure the project is on target for scope, schedule, and cost.
- Identify key issues and drive decisions to ensure that the project does not slip.
- Identify key risks and develop contingency plans.
- Work with management of different operating functions to identify and obtain required resources to adequately staff project.
- Interacts with all levels of management, team members, and stakeholders. Builds cohesive teams by partnering and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure efficient success of projects. Collaboratively engages and leads diverse teams and team members.
- Directs activities of project team members and balances workload of the team, ensuring that both individual and group objectives are met.
- Contributes to development of processes when they are needed by coordinating collaboration of design and execution with applicable Stakeholders.
- Prepares and performs stage gate reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related degree
- 5 years directly related experience required.
- Strong Project Planning & Organizational Skills.
- PMP or Agile Certification, preferred but not required.
- Experience is leading project using Agile project management methodologies.
- Excellent presentation skills; can adjust presentation to the audience level. Comfortable presenting to small and large groups at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to multi-task, manages competing priorities, meet deadlines and prioritize tasks.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills. Must be highly effective at leading people, and facilitating rapid change in a consistent and structured manner.
- Ability to demonstrate process development and management practices.
- Possesses understanding of cultural and behavioral influences on project communication and execution.
- Working knowledge of project management technologies, and tools such as (Microsoft Project, Jira, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Service Now, Plan View, SmartSheet).
- Possess in depth knowledge of Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
- Team oriented individual with the ability to work in a large, global corporate structure.
- Highly motivated self-starter who can initiate action and follow through with well-defined solutions and action plans.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Experience managing multiple large-scale projects from inception to closure.