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Job Title: Project Manager, Corporate Strategy
Department: Sales
Reports to: Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy
Summary of Position
The Project Manager is responsible for leading and completing projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives. This role is focused on planning, scheduling, and tracking a project plan through it’s completion. The project plan will thoroughly explain how the project will be executed and includes a budget, timeline, schedule, roles and responsibilities among other things. The Project Manager is responsible for the direction, coordination, implementation, executive, control and completion of the project while remaining aligned with the strategy, commitments and goals of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate internal resources for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Creating long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
- Delegating tasks on the project to employees best positioned to complete them
- Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project
- Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy
- Communicating with the executive team to keep the project aligned with their goals
- Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected
- Adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needs or financing for the project change
- Client facing experience – senior level – must be able to engage, lead and drive client conversation
Requirements
- Proven track record and experience as a project administrator
- Excellent client facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be able to eloquently present project plans and updates to executives
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Project management certification is a bonus but not required
