Senior Director, PMO

Construction Resources

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or related field preferred.
  • 5-10 years of Project Management experience in a mid-size company required.
  • Strong experience in Agile methodology including scrum and kanban.
  • Ability to manage two or more projects simultaneously effectively.
  • Experience with tools like Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) essential.

Responsibilities

  • Plan and execute project initiatives, documenting milestones and scheduling activities.
  • Communicate project status updates, risks, and action plans to relevant stakeholders.
  • Manage issues and risks by maintaining a register and facilitating solutions with team members.
  • Remove roadblocks by coordinating the right resources to assist project teams.
  • Enable team productivity through effective Agile practices and ceremony facilitation.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to manage project governance and align on priorities.
  • Engage in additional assigned duties as necessary.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Employer-paid basic life and AD&D insurance.
  • Employer-paid long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts available.
  • Voluntary short-term disability and additional insurance options.
Full Job Description
POSITION OVERVIEW

Seeking a world-class Project Manager to join our Technology team at Construction Resources (CR). The Project Manager is an individual who is excited about driving teams, solving problems, and delivering valuable projects in a startup-like environment inside a growing company. The right candidate should possess strong agile scrum master skills and have experience in program management and managing multiple projects at a mid-size company. This person will partner with business and the technology team to drive project planning and execution activities that deliver high-value initiatives with successful business outcomes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Plan and Execute Initiatives: Create the plan, document the milestones, align on what activities are being performed and create the schedule. Facilitate any issues and gaps.
  • Communicate status: Share the baseline plan, updates to the plan, and any issues, risks or activities that are required to make the project a success.
  • Manage issues / risks: Build a register of open issues and risks. Maintain accountable aligned individuals' actions to solve the issue, or to mitigate the risk.
  • Remove roadblocks for the team: Setup and pull together the right people to help navigate any roadblocks for the team.
  • Enable teams to be productive: Educate teams on why. Help explain and enable Agile ceremonies. Assist teams with being successful in standups, retrospectives, grooming and prioritization. Support cross-org alignment.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally to engage resources as needed, and assist in defining and managing a project governance program to evaluate potential project value, align priorities and ensure CR is investing in the right projects and executing them right.
  • Good attention to details and strong executive presence
  • Has lead Salesforce Implementation or enhancement projects
  • Demonstrated experience managing at least 2 projects simultaneously using Agile methodology
  • Started a light weight, pragmatic PMO practice, or been involved in running one; including developing criteria to score and prioritize initiatives
  • Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS/EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related discipline with an information technology focus or equivalent experience.
• 5 years Project Management experience required, 8- 10 years' experience in Project Management preferred.
• Experience working in Agile methodology (Agile scrum and kanban).
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage 2 or more projects simultaneously.
• Experience in setting up or executing in a well-run Program Management Office / Project Governance initiative is preferred.
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing and explaining technical and project-related information to internal technology partners, vendors, senior management, and staff.
• Experience working with third party development and infrastructure suppliers.
• Experience with tools such as Atlassian (Jira/Confluence).
• This position will be based at Construction Resources Tech Center in the Atlanta/Vinings area.

BENEFITSMedical
Dental
Vision
Employer Paid Basic Employee Life and AD&D Insurance
Employer Paid Long Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts
Voluntary Short-Term Disability
Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Voluntary Accident Insurance
Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, climb stairs, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

POSITION TYPE/EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
This is a full-time position that requires overtime as business needs dictate.

OTHER DUTIES
Please note: this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

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