Project Manager

Job Description Focus of the role: planning , tracking, working with stakeholders, driving, holding folks accountable Lead Delivery Manager  Lead 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 and reports to the Director - Project and Portfolio Management.

Key responsibilities include:  

• 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
• Attaining 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.
• Ensures project or framework specific governance is implemented 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• 80% Project delivery Management
• 10% Coaching and managing other PLs/PMs
• 10% Perform other duties as assigned including organizational improvement activities

LEVEL BASED COMPETENCIES

• Level Based Competencies are to be designated based on job level and content.
• 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

• Advanced knowledge of IT standards, policies and procedures
• Advanced knowledge of Networking and  Infrastructure project components
• Advanced knowledge of Tools for Managing and Reporting team progress
• Proficient working with technology platforms

Job / 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
• 10+ years of managing initiatives in information technology specifically in application development, COTS implementation and integration projects
• Proven experience in delivering customer facing applications 
• Must have experience in applying project management 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