- High ethical standards
- Strong desire to achieve impactful outcomes
- Strong work ethic and team orientation
- Ability to motivate and influence others to achieve results
- Strong organizational skills with a strong attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a focus on rapport-building, listening, and questioning skills ("people skills")
- Strong project management skills and experience
- Proficient with MS Office Suite
- Ability to work, and problem-solve independently
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task
- Effective negotiation skills
- Ability to deal tactfully with vendors, suppliers, and contractors who provide a broad spectrum of software application products and services
- Superb budgeting, inventory, and cost-management skills
- General knowledge of accounting, finance, marketing, and logistics
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Ability to demonstrate ownership, both individual and shared, to achieve results
- Ability to quickly adapt to shifting priorities, product demands, and purchasing timelines
- Must be able to quickly learn, understand, and apply new technologies
- Experience in contract negotiation and project budget management
- Experience in vendor management
- Employees are required to comply with all information and physical security policies and procedures
- Recurring training on information and physical security policies will be provided throughout your period of employment. Participation in these trainings is required
- Refer to the Personnel Information Security Guide and the Information Security Policy Manual for further guidance on information security responsibilities and expectations
Project Manager - Kalamazoo, United States - Greenleaf Trust
Description
What's This Job All About?
Provide project management services throughout the project lifecycle. Responsible for project execution while leading a team, or teams, to accomplish specific objectives in a given time frame with necessary resources provided from Divisions within Greenleaf Trust and Greenleaf Capital.
What You'll Be Doing:
General Responsibilities
For Greenleaf Trust and all other Greenleaf entities:
Create positive relationships with divisions, entities as well as the vendor community.
Facilitate and provide communication regarding status of projects.
Manage the scoping, benchmarking, planning and execution of projects
Assist company with contract management programs including W-9 collection and contract renewal notifications.
Project Management
Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, deliverables and success metrics.
Conduct research/benchmarking for business and technologies solutions.
Facilitate project specific business case development and return on investment strategy.
Establish and manage project budgets from a financial and human capital resource perspective.
Establish and update resource allocation plans.
Establish and manage project timelines.
Adhere to regulatory compliance requirements.
Assemble and coordinate project staff.
Assist in project specific asset procurement.
Provide effective reporting on current project status.
Monitor and track financial project expenses.
Facilitate and assist in the development of project specific training activities
Facilitate quality assurance for all BIS project management and service delivery initiatives.
Provide training on project management standards and assist in mentoring resources that are associated with project initiatives.
Educate project team members on their responsibilities and enforce accountability.
Monitor vendor, service provider, and/or contractor performance to ensure quality of service on project specific initiatives.
Participate actively in the Change Management process.
What You Need For This Position:
Bachelor's Degree and minimum three (3) years project management experience with five (5) or more years of progressively responsible leadership experience in a professional office, or equivalent education and experience. Project Management Certification preferred.
Talents, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Security Responsibilities
All other duties as assigned