Senior Project Manager Jobs

Job Title:Sr. Project Manager

Location:Baltimore,Maryland (Hybrid)

Duration:6+ months

Interview Process:video

USC/GC due to legal or govt. contract requirement.

W2/Own corp.

Hybrid in Baltimore, MD (3 days onsite)

Job description:

Main thing manager is looking for is enterprise level experience managing financial projects and excellent communication skills.

Required Qualifications:

Professional skills:

• Experience with business process improvement approaches (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) •
• Strong knowledge of the PMBOK
• Demonstrated fluency with both waterfall and agile project management, as well as the SDLC
• Fluency with Microsoft Office suite and SharePoint • Fluency with Microsoft Project or similar project management software.

Education:• College degree

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years in the financial industry •
• Minimum 5 years managing teams of project professionals and large matrixed teams at all levels of the organization.
• Minimum 10 years as a project or program manager, managing projects in excess of $5M

Soft skills

• Ability to work well with diverse teams (differing backgrounds, business and technical areas, experience, and geography)
• Human-centric approach to change management.
• Insatiable intellectual curiosity• Superlative communication, both verbal and written (textual and visual)
• Obsession with delivering value for customers • Outstanding client relationship management skills
• Powerful analytical and consultative mindset, offering clients multiple well-developed options to solve business problems

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience

Experience leading global teams preferred

Education and certifications

MBA preferred • PMP certification preferred • PgMP certification preferred • Change management certification (e.g., ProSci) preferred –

Technical skills• Miro, Microsoft Visio, or similar diagramming software preferred • Jira or similar task management software preferred

Principal Responsibilities:

• Seek consensus wherever possible. Debate opinions, test understanding, and clarify judgments.
• Prioritizes information by source.
• Conduct objective analysis.
• Model exemplary behavior and high standards. Act as a role model for a culture of superior standards, on-time, on-budget delivery, and high quality.
• Together with the program manager, sponsors, and stakeholders, plan across multi-year projects: schedule, scope, cost, resourcing, and interdependencies.
• Develop enterprise project management talent and capabilities (10%)-
• Coordinate with other projects. Actively promote alignment and compliance with other related programs and projects, as well as with internal dependencies such as risk and compliance. Promote continuous improvement in project management. Involve peers and team members in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance. Improve efficiency by leading and piloting new approaches.
• Analyze data.
• Communicate constantly. Maintain effective communication. Share ideas, issues, and opportunities, and build a culture of information sharing.
• Support the organization’s talent management and diversity goals. Internal Working.
• Monitor and provide status. Deploy resources (time, people, systems) to monitor projects and provide status reports.
• Bring conflict into the open empathetically.
• Explain the context of multiple interrelated situations, ask probing questions, and solicit expert advice prior to making recommendations or taking action.
• Manage projects (90%)
• Deliver business value.
• Manage risk. Track and review risks and issues. Proactively conduct business review meetings and take corrective action.
• Holds self and team members accountable for achievements, publicly recognizing successes.
• Facilitate problem solving. Manage meetings so that they produce expected outcomes.
• Plan projects.
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) to all levels of colleagues in ways that support problem solving and planning.
• Build relationships.
• Lead matrixed teams of project management professionals and subject matter experts to effectively deliver expected outcomes for multiple interrelated projects.
• Build broad organizational capabilities related to effective program and project management and adoption of the Enterprise Change Office’s best practices.
• Serve as a role model to others. Coach, develop, and mentor direct and indirect reports.
• Evaluate sources, and collates and compares findings for bias, omission and accuracy.
• Act as a thought leader across the enterprise on program and project management matters.
• Lead collaborative partnerships across multiple business units and functions.
• Promote and personally increase cross-business unit collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Network internally and externally on areas of interest and concern.

Thanks

Shishir Shreeram