Manager Project Manager

Plan and manage multiple assigned projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope to include:

-Work with business and product owners to scope functional and technical requirements, communicate with relevant stakeholders, and work with teams to deliver them in a successful and timely manager. Create executive level frameworks, current state, future state roadmaps, process flows and documents to take users 'on the journey'

-Manage intra- and inter-team dependencies, highlight project blockers and risks and work with cross-functional teams to resolve them

-Partner with business owners, internal teams, and stakeholders to define the project success metrics and roadmap, develop implementation plans and milestones, and measure against metrics

-Effectively IT prioritizes project deliverables. Direct and be accountable for Organizational change management within your program domain

-Establishes and implements project communication plans, providing status updates. Collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends as needed to prepare project status reports

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

Individual Contributors who have an elevated level of expertise and are subject matter experts in their specified area.

Excellent ability to create and contribute to executive level and working frameworks on strategy, status updates and utilize required Project Management Tools. Ability to create process level roadmaps at both a detailed level and executive level.

• Excellent ability to create project plans from the start defining clear goals, objectives and milestones working with the team in a fast-moving environment. Ability to use fit for purpose Project Management tools from both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies.

• Experience creating and maintaining technical architecture documentation

• Mindset of no task too small, ready to help, support as needed see and own tasks to completion

• Strong Leadership abilities. Able to use influence management to inspire project team members

• Able to anticipate and remove impediments, provide escalation management, and make tradeoffs by balancing business needs with technical constraints

• Ability to oversee planning of projects, programs, and initiatives ensuring consistency and compliance to company processes

• Will build a reputation as a trusted partner who understands the business and collaborates to deliver on commitments and drive business results

• Must be able to work successfully within a milestone-driven environment utilizing standardized project management processes

• Ability to help define and refine working processes to maximize efficiency in constantly evolving environments

• Can create, track, and allocate budgets used to prioritize programs and projects and manage resourcing for complete end-to-end planning

• Ability to manage the collaboration of the IT PMO with Platform Engineering, Technical Operations, Customer, Applications, Procurement, Finance, Marketing, and additional stakeholders. Develop solutions that are fit for purpose and achievable within the budget, scope, and on schedule

• The ability to dynamically adapt to shifts in priorities and projects in an ambiguous environment, resolving contention and solving problems across technology and our business partners

• Self-motivated with an ardent desire to initiate and drive projects; ability to work independently and in a team

• The ability to discuss technical issues, limitations, requirements, etc. in a way that is understandable to non-technical users

• Effortless collaborator and expert communicator who can work well across and within cross functional teams

• Experience project managing applications and architecture across a wide variety of platforms such as Customer Applications, Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering

• Preferred experience with agile, design thinking, strategy frameworks in application development and technical architecture

• Able to lead Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives

• The ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work under time pressures

• Experience managing external vendors and partners

• Excellent written/verbal communication, presentation, and listening skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

• Possess the leadership ability to motivate others by demonstrating a clear purpose for the team and how their work fits into the company's strategy while facilitating a sense of autonomy

• Team player that is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done

• Quick study who can flex her/his approach with comfort and ease

• Highly organized and detail oriented

• The ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see things from their perspective

• Preference is for candidates to be in a Hybrid Environment in our NYC office with expectation of being in office at least 2 days a week and if needed for support.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Wrike, MS Teams and other related project management and collaboration tools

Competency in PowerPoint or similar presentation software

Competency in Microsoft Excel or similar software

Competency in Microsoft Power BI or similar software

Office 365 or similar suites

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (i.e., degrees, certifications)

Degree or Equivalent Experience:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Minimum Years of Experience: Minimum of five (5) years' experience in corporate PMO environment or related experience

Required Field of Study:

NA

Preferred Certifications Requirements:

• PMP

• Certification in agile (CSM, CSPO, SSM)