Global Project Manager Jobs

Description

Job Purpose:

The Project Manager (PM) has full responsibility for assigned projects and will be the central point of contact for internal and external stakeholders to meet all project goals. The PM must build meaningful stakeholder relationships, guide project teams, and ensure consistent collaboration across the global structure.

The position requires the ability to embrace and drive change, while quickly adapting to new circumstances. Outstanding collaboration across functional areas within the business is critical to achieve success.

Key result areas:

• Lead project teams in conducting root cause analysis to assist in resolving issues, architecting solutions, or defining process improvements.
• Provide Senior and Executive Management accurate Project Health and Status Reports through established communication plans.
• Adjust schedules and targets on the project when needed or directed as organizational priorities change.
• Delegate project tasks to team members best positioned to complete them.
• Anticipate, recognize, and identify key project challenges and problems to establish and direct problem-solving objectives and priorities for resolution.
• Manage cross-functional team members assigned to projects, ensuring that all parties understand and are aligned with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Create visibility to project risks, and potential constraints in a timely manner to allow for effective risk mitigation
• Support the PMO Office in maintaining and effectively managing the Corporate Project Portfolio.
• Complete detailed weekly, monthly, or quarterly status reports depending on the needs of each project.
• Facilitate project design meetings to launch projects based on corporate priorities.
• Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements via lessons learned methodologies.
• Assist teams in defining project scope and objectives, involving all relevant internal stakeholders across the global enterprise, and ensuring technical feasibility with IT teams.
• Develop long and short-term project plans, including setting targets for milestones, establishing dates, and understanding requirements and resource needs.
• Coordinate the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to end users/stakeholders.
• Ensure Process Changes are effectively documented and communicated across the enterprise.

Knowledge, training, experience and skills required to do the job:

• Proven experience in a dedicated project management role.
• Excellent meeting facilitation skills.
• Strong leadership and critical thinking abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Ability to lead co-located project teams of various sizes across time zones.
• Demonstrated understanding of formal project management methodologies (AGILE, Waterfall, Blended)
• A recognised Project Management Qualification is desirable
• Experience in Microsoft Office applications, SharePoint, and Smart Sheets
• Strong verbal & written communication Skills

Our company is fast-paced, dynamic and has enormous potential like few others, thriving in an industry that's highly demanding and very competitive. Our success so far is based on finding the best talent and putting them together to work in a friendly, challenging and exciting environment. Talent is everything for Optimas.

Optimas OE Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Optimas OE Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.