Sr. Project Manager
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Job Info

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Position summary:

• Responsible for managing complex and high risks projects.
• Oversees project budgets and schedules.
• Manage day-to-day aspects of project scope.
• Minimizes project risk.
• Creates and manages project work plans and work breakdown structures.
• Accountable for leading project and program delivery resulting in defined business value delivered on time and on budget, and with stable operation.
• Ensures solutions meet business needs.
• Consults and collaborates with Leaders, subject matter experts, and others as needed to drive successful end-to-end delivery.

Skills:

• Project Management: Expert
• Project Management - Technical: Expert

Essential Responsibilities
Team Leadership -

• Provides day to day direction and oversees progress of planned activities across various participation groups. Leads project health recovery, risk mitigation and issue resolution activities.
• Provides input into project team needs, resource selection, and resource planning.
• Drives collaboration and cross-organizational coordination of project activities.
• Participates in project reviews and steering committees.
• Leads diverse teams comprised of business stakeholders, subject matter experts, shared services groups, product and integration vendors, and core team members. 

Project Management -

• Responsible for planning, execution, communications, status reporting, risk and issue management, customer satisfaction and financial management of projects.
• Constructs RFPs and SOWs if needed.
• Accountable for adherence to company's y lifecycle methodology, structured project change, issue and risk management, reference architecture standards, regulatory policy, and IT Security policy.
• Leads the project end-to-end, from planning through implementation, including resource planning, scope definition, financial management, benefit analysis, and schedule.
• Establishes, maintains and manages against a logical work breakdown structure.
• Defines major project milestones, and project cost and benefit estimates.
• Owns communications, including status reports, leadership, and stakeholder updates.
• Manages project risk and organizational dependencies and linkages.
• Continually identifies opportunities for innovation and improvement within their projects. 

Customer Relationship Management -

• Serves as the primary contact and business liaison to the project.
• Manages customer expectations regarding projects and continually drives improvements in customer satisfaction.
• Drives resolution of customer concerns quickly and effectively, and appropriately escalates as needed.
• Contributes to business case and cost/benefit factors. Ensures sound post-implementation operation through sound test and implementation and alignment with Support leaders.
• Ensures lessons learned are effected. Facilitates conflict resolution through negotiation and consensus building techniques. Keeps Program Manager apprised of business satisfaction.

Minimum Requirements 

• Bachelors Degree in business, IT or related field or equivalent experience. 
• At least 5 years IT work experience, with experience successfully managing sizeable projects and large budgets. 
• Demonstrated understanding of core PMO processes and methodologies (including Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile). 
• Mastery of project planning and WBS creation. * PMP Certification required, or ability to attain. 
• Mastered ability to deliver through structured project management practices, managing teams in a matrixed environment. 
• Strong communication, collaboration, relationship management and critical thinking skills required.

Preferred 

• Experience with EMS/SCADA or similar systems strongly preferred 
• Experience with Critical Information Protection Standards 
• Experience with Utility Energy Markets and Independent System Operator 
• Experience with Energy Settlement and Risk Management Software SAS Bookrunner Replacement.
• This is a fully approved capital project thats scope is to replace the existing risk management system used by Commercial Operations with a new system.
• The specific skills needed for this position are a knowledge commercial operations and risk management systems.

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