Director - Project Management

As a Director - Project Management you will develop and direct the strategic planning of multiple projects/programs. You will oversee coordination of personnel and resources required to successfully manage projects/programs. You will develop budgets, policies and procedures to support the functional infrastructure. You will focus on driving results while providing consistent delivery of large-scale initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• In coordination with leadership oversee and manage a portfolio of individual projects/programs.
• Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of a project/program management team.
• Provides overall strategic governance for project/program management by establishing standards, processes, and tools used for effective project management.
• Establishes methodologies to set productivity and quality targets and to assess results for all programs and projects.
• Monitors the project/program from initiation through delivery, interfacing with both internal and external customers and cross-functional teams.
• Consult or negotiate with customers to prepare project specifications.
• Develops, defines and executes comprehensive project plans, schedules, and deliverables utilizing Project Management tools such as MS Teams with organized file structure.
• Define Risk Registers for all projects/programs and responds proactively to escalated issues that may impede customer satisfaction, project delivery and coordinates solutions.
• Accountable for program success; routinely reports program status to executive team and functional leadership.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or minimum of 10 years senior management Program/Project Management experience.
• PfMP or PMP Certified required.
• Certified PMP with a minimum of 5 years in a leadership position (director or above) requiring broad organizational cross-functional collaboration and coordination.
• 10 year overall project management experience.
• Experience in LEAN/Six Sigma practices.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, enabling strong alignment with partners and navigation of conflict constructively.
• Efficient, effective communication and presentation abilities at EVP level, with ability to tailor approach to best reach intended audience.
• Solutions-oriented strategic thinker who can easily identify high-priority, high-impact activities.
• Experience coordinating large teams working within a matrixed based organization on complex efforts with many inter-dependencies.
• Navigate uncertainty with agility and maintains appropriate forward momentum with strong core team engagement.
• Ability to travel 0-25% of the time. 

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