Overview

The right candidate is a self-motivated leader who possesses strong client management, has demonstrated experience working closely with cross-functional teams, and has exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build schedules, requirements, resource plans, quality plans, prioritize initiatives, and proactively identify and address potential setbacks.
• Coordinate with project technical leads to define development, configuration, and project support tasks at appropriate level of detail for effective tracking and progress reporting.
• Work with software engineers to deliver solutions and features in a fast-paced environment.
• Ensure efficient, effective solution development and sustainable implementation
• Prepare project correspondence and presentations as needed for status reports, stakeholder updates, meetings, etc.
• Ensure project documentation is complete, current, and available for review by all parts of the organization.
• Provide day-to-day coordination and quality assurance for projects and tasks.
• Be able to communicate effectively with the customer by building deep subject matter expertise in their business.
• Author Statements of Work (SOWs) to scope customer requests
• Communicate program status, risks, and issues to executives and project teams.
• Instill a culture of collaboration and support throughout your projects teams.
• Effectively influence leaders and key partners to gain alignment.
• Ideate and implement project management frameworks and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering discipline or Computer Science (Preferred)
• Minimum three years’ experience with project management or related experience in delivering Automation/IT type projects
• Possess relevant industry or technology knowledge
• Demonstrated success at simultaneously managing multiple complex projects
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, and be self-motivated
• Must have flexibility with working styles
• Ability to make efficient decisions, even with vague information
• Extensive experience with direct customer contact
• Ability to drive administrative and operational deliverables to completion
• Must have excellent conflict resolution and people interface skills
• Must be able to interface with all levels of management
• Superior listening and data gathering skills
• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred but not required
• Knowledge of software design, starting with a systems-level comprehension from the hardware and software systems to frameworks
• Software integration experience in a manufacturing or consumer environment
• Experience building and managing relationships with customers, vendors, and other external partners in conjunction with business development
• Ability to document high-level, end-to-end project execution strategy for project sales proposal documentation.
• Ability to present key project execution plan highlights and differentiators for client proposal review presentations.
• Experience understanding and communicating technical information to non-experts
• Six Sigma / Lean methodologies knowledge preferred but not required
• Agile Project management experience preferred but not required