Senior Manager, PMO

Senior Manager, PMO

The Senior Manager, PMO will be responsible for leading and managing large, complex, cross functional enterprise initiatives leveraging Agile & Scrum methodology best practices.

Duties and Responsibilities

People:

• Create a positive team experience
• Develops and provides education and coaching to elevate project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to meet project requirements.

Client:

• Escalates and manages project issues and risks to the appropriate stakeholders with clarity, timeliness, and professionalism
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and team members to effectively prioritize, plan and organize the completion of project milestones and work
• Tracks progress and provides timely status reporting of milestones, dependencies, risks and issues to initiative owners, key stakeholders, and leadership
• Designs and delivers effective Change Management plans to effectively communicate and educate end users.

Value:

• Proactively evaluates business processes to identify and execute improvements leading to quantifiable savings to the Firm
• Oversee all scoping, planning, execution and managing activities to ensure on-time delivery, within budget and meets or exceeds expectations
• Supports the development and improvement of Business Excellence processes, best practices, templates/tools and training
• Develops appropriate training and communication plans/content to support BX initiatives
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with a minimum of 8 years' industry experience as a program or project manager, with a progressive record of successful delivery of complex solutions, systems, or services
• Finance knowledge and/or Finance project deployment experience preferred
• Six Sigma/Lean experience.

Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.

Essential Skills Required

• Demonstrates senior executive engagement and influencing skills
• Demonstrates ability to work on cross-functional projects with tight deadlines
• Manages multiple concurrent projects in a cross-functional organization and excels in a dynamic and collaborative environment supporting high-growth and fast-paced business units
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to coach teams to quickly identify core issues and determine solutions while creating structure around ambiguity
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks and successfully prioritize to deliver results in the face of competing business interests
• Strong drive for results and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Outstanding organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Certificates and Licenses

• PMP Certification (preferred)
• Six Sigma Green Belt (preferred)
• Valid driver's license (required).

Work Environment

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Occasional long periods of standing.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees and vendors both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
• Independent travel requirement: up to 25%.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran