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

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

Project Manager

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