Project Manager - Philadelphia, United States - Alliance Benefit Group-Rocky Mountain

Description

At PCS Retirement, we cultivate an environment built on trust, where every team member is empowered to take ownership and contribute to our shared vision.

Through collaborative teamwork we foster growth, both personally and professionally, ensuring that together we exceed expectations and achieve remarkable success.

• Develop and implement project management processes and methodologies to ensure successful project delivery
• Works with the project team in all team coordination activities, including facilitation of project kickoff meetings, weekly project status meetings, work break down and status tracking, project / program reporting and project closure activities
• Maintain project schedules, budgets and resource plans and takes ownership in working with project teams to deliver projects on time, escalating issues as identified while working swiftly to remove barriers that present risks to the project.
• Establishes project team execution standards and meeting cadences, including the standard usage of project management tool usage in a manner consistent with program management guidelines
• Effectively manages new project team demand, including facilitating and managing new work (intake) requests and change controls
• Works with the project team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making for key decisions impacting the project team's scope, costs, resources and schedules
• Contributes to the advancement and continuous improvement/innovation of project management practices and tools across the organization
• Monitor project progress and effectively communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management

• Bachelor's degree in management information systems, computer science, or related field highly desired
• 10+ years of expert project management experience in financial services
• Project Management certifications, including PMP, CSM and/or SAFE Agilist, highly desired
• Experience leading agile scrum teams in a remote environment, preferably with at least 3 years of experience being a SCRUM master.
• Experience managing crossfunctional remote project teams of various sizes (smaller vs larger teams) and understanding of the appropriate project management techniques dependent on team size
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping.
• Excellent judgment, decision making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fastpaced environment and collaborating across geographically distributed remote teams
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communications / presentation skills, and experience presenting to senior executives, decision makers, and external stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and creative problemsolving skills
• Proficient with project management tools (MS Project, Jira, Confluence, and Salesforce), and office productivity tools (MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)

• For all virtual remote positions, in order to ensure employees can effectively perform their job duties with no distractions, we require an uninterrupted virtual work space and there is also an expectation of family care being in place during business hours. Additionally, there is an internet work speed requirement of 50 MBps or better for individual use. If more than one person is utilizing the same internet connection in the same household or building, then a stronger connection is required. If you are unsure of your internet speed, please check with your service provider. Please ensure that you are able to meet these expectations before applying.