Senior Program/Project Manager
Senior Program/Project Manager
MillenniumSoft Inc
San Diego, CA
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Location: San Diego, CA
Contract Term: 12+ Months
Weekly 40.00 hours
This position will sit in San Diego
Please Pay Attention To The Following
- Must have excellent command of the English language (oral and written) this person may need to present to Executive level leadership
- Looking for someone who can lead not someone who waits to be led.
- Candidates must have experience in a Formal Structured IT PM Enterprise setting
- Some of the requirements may include
- taking meeting minutes, documentation, driving meetings, holding other parties accountable, creating presentations, etc.
The Senior Program/Project Manager works with executive and director level business leaders to understand the strategic objectives for major business change initiatives and define the tactical projects to realize these objectives. The Senior Program/Project Manager leads the projects through building effective relationships with business leaders, project team and project stakeholders. The Senior Program/Project Manager drives the delivery of the projects/program through advanced program/project management techniques and methodologies. The Senior Program/Project Manager balances the demands of multiple medium/large projects ($.5M - $1M) or larger programs ($1M-$10M).
Responsibilities
- Partners with project sponsors and stakeholder to define program/project objectives and business case.
- Leads full life cycle project delivery for multiple medium/large project or larger programs.
- Takes ownership for delivering program/project objectives and deliverables. Drives project execution to meet project schedule, cost and quality requirements.
- Manages internal and external customer relationships to realize high customer satisfaction for their program and projects.
- Implements company and industry best practice program/project methodology for delivering their programs and projects.
- Supports ePMO management in refining program/project management practices and implementing them throughout the PMO.
- Mentors project managers and project coordinators in project management best practices.
- Competencies
- Stakeholder Relationship - demonstrated ability to identify key project stakeholders and understand their goals and motivations for the project. Adept at building stakeholder confidence that the project is meeting their needs through positive relationship management.
- Leadership Presence - capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives. Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk.
- Team Building - experienced building cross functional teams in multiple geographies and diverse cultural backgrounds. Effective in creating a positive working environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Driven to enable the project team to surface and resolve issues that affect project delivery.
- Business Acumen - seasoned understanding of the business drivers in multiple disciplines that influence project success. Solid business judgement to help drive decision making to reduce project risk and achieve project results.
Project Management Methodology
- Knowledgeable in program/project management industry best practices.
- Demonstrated experience driving projects from initiation through closure.
- Adept at partnering with business sponsors and stakeholder to shape the project business case and gain organizational support and approval.
- In depth understanding of the detailed project planning processes and tools. Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule and budget using standard project tools (MSProject/SharePoint/etc.).
- Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.
- Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.
- Proactive in surfacing risks and issues. Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations. Effective in developing clear problem statements and resolution options for escalation to project sponsors and management.
- Clear understanding of the processes to define and validate acceptance criteria for the project to ensure project completion acceptance.
- Understands the dynamics of implementing change in the business environment.
- Experienced in helping the business team plan and drive change into their organization.
- General knowledge of the techniques for designing changes to business processes impacted by the project.
- Understanding how education, training and communications drive the effectiveness of the solution. Experienced working with business team members to ensure effective delivery to the impacted organizations.
- Superior verbal and written communications skills to interact with executive, business leaders and team members.
- Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops. Creating meeting objectives and agendas. Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.
- Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment
- Excellent time management skills. Able to work on multiple concurrent activities. Able to prioritize personal workload and team work load to optimize project delivery.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years overall project/program management experience.
- 2+ years leading major cross-functional corporate programs requiring business change
- BS in Business Administration/Computer Sciences or related degree.
- Up to 50% Travel (majority US Domestic).
- PMP, or PgPM PMI Certification or equivalent
- MS or MBA preferred.
- Life Science and/or Health Care company experience.
- LSS Black Belt or Green Belt certification or similar experience.
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