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Form of work Title - Project Manager - Automotive Industry
Location - Woodcliff Lake, NJ (Hybrid remote with 3 days in office)
Duration - 12+ months
Pay Rate - $65/hr
Job Summary -
This position will be responsible for Project Management activities for their assigned projects. The ideal candidate must have strong project management experience in a global setting, having worked in multiple technology domains. Candidate must be a strong self-starter as well as able to manage competing priorities. He/she must possess excellent leadership, problem solving and communication skills (written, verbal, and instant) while able to build and maintain strong working relationships within a global, culturally diverse environment.
Responsibilities -
Location - Woodcliff Lake, NJ (Hybrid remote with 3 days in office)
Duration - 12+ months
Pay Rate - $65/hr
Job Summary -
This position will be responsible for Project Management activities for their assigned projects. The ideal candidate must have strong project management experience in a global setting, having worked in multiple technology domains. Candidate must be a strong self-starter as well as able to manage competing priorities. He/she must possess excellent leadership, problem solving and communication skills (written, verbal, and instant) while able to build and maintain strong working relationships within a global, culturally diverse environment.
Responsibilities -
- Leads, owns and manages project delivery for assigned projects
- Responsible for project planning and execution using project artifacts to include: MS Project plans, schedules & resource plans
- Ensure projects are delivered within the agreed upon schedule, budget, and quality constraints.
- Accountable for addressing external and cross team internal dependencies, mitigation and resolution of project level risks and issues.
- Escalates to Project Owner and Executive Sponsors as necessary.
- Acts as the communications conduit to Project Owner, Sponsors and Steering Committee by conducting periodic briefings/status updates as well as providing support and guidance for general communications to key stakeholders.
- Builds and maintains a comprehensive Project Plan/Schedule with Project Schedule rollups.
- Ensures all Projects adheres to the Program/Project Management Quality Framework, the Global PMO policies and procedures, and other compliance processes where applicable.
- Produces weekly status along with financial reporting and metrics.
- Identifies and manages dependencies
- Continuously monitors plan focusing on activities and milestones at risk
- Facilitates population of risk register and keeps risk management plan up to date
- Provides proactive communication of project risks
- Creates alerts to notify project Sponsor and Steering Committee of upcoming due dates and emerging issues
- Creates status reports, dashboards, milestone reviews, and ad hoc reports
- Participates in deliverable creation as necessary - especially business analysis and user story creation
- Validates and approves deliverables
- 3-5 years of Project Management experience
- Experience in managing multiple parallel work streams
- Strong organizational, leadership, problem solving and influencing skills
- Strong interpersonal (relationship building), written and verbal communication
- Sensitivity to future Organizational Change and multi-cultural characteristics of Global IT organization
- Strong Microsoft Office, including Visio, MS Project, Power Point and SharePoint skills required
- PMI/PMP certification desirable
- Scrum Master experience, certification desirable
- Business Analysis experience desirable
- User story experience desirable
