Project Manager

Job Description

Job Summary:

• The Project Manager will lead a team of approximately 15 to 20 team members in various areas of the business.
• The candidate should have a proven track record of delivering his/her projects on time and within budget.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders.

Differentiating Factors:

1. Autonomy:

• Manages subordinate supervisors and/or experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments.
• Provides tactical and/or operational leadership and coaching.
• Receives assignments in task and objective oriented terms.

2. Organizational Impact:

• Establishes operational plans and implements policies and strategies.
• Decisions impact program schedules, customer satisfaction levels, or allocation of time, material resources, expenditures and funds.
• May have budget or P&L accountability for a department, function or geography.
• Strive for continuous improvement and consistency in deliverables.

3. Innovation and Complexity:

• Proposes modifications to functional operating policies and day-to-day processes.
• Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

4. Communication and Influence:

• Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors regarding ongoing operations.
• Uses information exchange, influence and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to product cooperation of other parties.
• May interact on issues that have externally shared objectives.

5. Leadership and Talent Management:

• Manages a team consisting of supervisors and/or experienced professionals in the Specialist career stream.
• Leads, directs and reviews the work of a team who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.
• Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.

Requirements:

• Requires practical knowledge in leading and managing the execution of processes, projects and tactics within one job area.
• Typically has advanced knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization.
• Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A)) and minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years prior relevant experience.