Sr. Project Manager - Parsippany, United States - The Custom Group of Companies

Description

Overview
Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering multiple strategic efforts across various departments. This role will be a part of the Project and Portfolio Management organization.

1) Experience in managing customer facing applications (web development, .net etc.). not looking for a tech guy but somebody who knows what needs to be managed and what can go wrong with these types of large applications rolled out to our customers.

2) S olid 6-10 years of experience in this area as the projects that will be assigned are high visible, time sensitive with a large group of stakeholders at all levels to manage.

3) Communication has to be clear, concise and should come across as confident.

4) Needsto have experience in managing Warehouse management systems(as we are working on a large multiple year program for rolling out Krber'sWMS system). Again, does not have to be technical but should understand the complications of rolling out WMS systems for manufacturing locations and be familiar with the terminology used by the warehouse personnel.

Responsibilities

• Using hands-on and a proactive approach to ensure that value is delivered - with full responsibility for all aspects of a project including managing milestones, identifying and tracking issues and risks, and driving the team to meet project goals.
• Creating visibility into the project activities and milestones while balancing the desire to follow an agile and iterative software development process.
• Partnering with other digital delivery groups to align ongoing efforts
• Contributing to the team by participating in solution definition and removing roadblocks
• ttaining full knowledge of the functional area and helps the project teams to focus on achieving desired business outcomes.
• Surfacing challenges that require cross team coordination or leadership intervention prior to them impacting scope, cost or the timeline.
• Establishing a good cadence for communicating outside the team including conducting effective meetings for the given audience by managing the agenda, running the meeting and communicating/tracking follow-ups.
• Establishing strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders
• Helping the team in identifying development opportunities and challenging the team to actively work on improving their performance
• Managing budgets, forecasts and vendor teams; Coordinates vendor selection and contracting.
• Ensuring alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy and roadmap.

Minimum Requirements
Strong Decision Making, Collaboration, conflict management, facilitation and delegation skills
Excellent experience in dealing with C-level executives
Can coach other project managers and business team members in applying right methodology
Ability to juggle multiple priorities with competing deadlines
Ability to drive deliverables through completion and hold team members accountable for their work
Ability to identify potential risks and provide proactive mitigations

Technical knowledge/skills
dvanced knowledge of IT standards, policies and procedures
Advanced knowledge of Traditional and Agile frameworks
Advanced knowledge of Tools for Managing and Reporting team progress
Proficient working with technology platforms

General knowledge/skills
Positive can-do attitude, solutions-oriented and willingness to extend beyond day-to-day project manager responsibilities
Strong ability in Problem Solving, Forward Thinking, Influencing Stakeholders
Strong Adaptability and Sense of ownership
Strong ability to Build Relationships and Credibility with Management
Strong Ability to Influence and Drive Cross Functional Decisions and Initiatives

Leadership/Supervision
Minimal to no Supervision and Oversight required
Adherence to Performance review and Goal setting process
Strong ability to provide feedback and apply feedback received to improve performance.

Education/Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or relevant experience
6-10 years of managing initiatives in a digital environment (preferably in a manufacturing setting)
Must have experience in applying traditional and agile frameworks that are best suited to the needs of the project to deliver value.
Must have strong experience in managing large, complex projects
Training and certifications in traditional project management and/or agile methodologies is preferred