Senior Project ManagerThe Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing projects by providing leadership and direction across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to stage gate quality and control guidelines throughout the full project life cycle. This also includes management of issues, risks, project change requests, and communication to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Execute process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery.
The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis, verifies that the project produces the required deliverables with the desired level of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.
Major Accountabilities:- Strong ability to prioritize tasks, set deadlines, and secure and assign staff to various deliverables so that each project/change can hit the ground running with the best use of our resources.
- Manage a portfolio of initiatives
- Analyzes financial data of the portfolio including distribution and allocation of resources as well as the identification, implementation, and oversight of budgets.
- Performs risk/issue management and appropriate management of critical dependencies, escalating items as appropriate to leadership for timely resolution.
- Ensures that all processes related to a project's completion are carried out in the most efficient and effective manner while simultaneously upholding Lincoln's set of standards.
- Seeks to improve new and pre-existing processes, continually reevaluate whether each project is meeting the applicable standards and engage in problem solving with stakeholders.
- Provides guidance and support to other Project Managers on the team throughout the project/change lifecycle including ensuring accurate completion of documents, reviewing and aiding outlining the project/change's scope, budget resources and justification.
- Strong ability to communicate effectively and appropriately on a business and/or technical level as required.
- Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, Operating Committee and key stakeholders.
- Reports on project success criteria results, metrics, and management activities.
- Act as an internal quality control check for other PM's projects.
- Manages the relationship with all internal/external project stakeholders.
- Ability to navigate the politics and challenges of business transformation programs.
- Supports annual planning and other strategic planning efforts, as required.
Successful Candidate Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- PMP or PMI Certification a plus
- 10+ years' experience as a business project manager, business analyst, project coordinator or related
- M&A experience a plus
- Agile methodology experience delivering complex business solutions
- Understand basic to advanced financial metrics
- Demonstrated ability to be innovative and an aptitude to drive and accept change
- Proven leadership skills and ability to make decisions
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills, presentation skills
- Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, juggle multiple priorities, and be adaptive to change
- Ability to work as an effective team member, across diverse levels and skillsets
- Strong Knowledge of: MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Visio; Power BI a plus
