Sr. Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager

Industry: Automotive

Location: Onsite – Deerfield Beach, FL

Duration: Long Term

Comments for Suppliers: Candidate must be local to Deerfield Beach, FL and willing to work onsite.

MOI: One internal technical round, followed by one or two rounds with the client (audio/video via Microsoft Teams). The client may also request an on-site interview. Please share only local candidates.

Job Overview: We are presently in the market for a Sr. Project Manager position with excellent communication, vendor management, application development and software package implementations experience. Please note this is not a remote position and requires the candidate to be on-site at our Deerfield Beach, Florida campus.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Executive presence and effective communication
• Must be able to clearly articulate project updates to stakeholders and members of the senior leadership team
• Must possess a strong presence with confidence and polish
• Excellent planning and coordination skills
• Waterfall and Agile Methodology
• Must have strong experience running waterfall, agile and hybrid projects, aligning processes, deliverables and project metrics/dashboards/reports as needed
• Experience with various dependent projects potentially being executed with different methodologies
• Vendor Management
• Experience with Vendor contracts management
• Experience with and Vendor package implementations
• Strong experience in managing internal, external and hybrid teams
• Technical
• Prior experience managing technology roadmap projects
• General knowledge and understanding of the technology field and technology projects
• Understanding of core infrastructure

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage projects that involve multiple vendors and complex integrations
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Develop and track full scale project plans including external integration points and dependencies
• Establish and coordinate project teams
• Direct and oversee the project team
• Define project tasks and manage project resource allocation
• Manage project budgets
• Identify project risks and issues and develop and execute mitigation plans
• Manage project changes to achieve project goals
• Monitor and report project status to all stakeholders
• Provide guidance and direction to external vendors as applicable
• Participate in quality audits
• Develop Requests for Information/ Proposals (RFI/RFP) for external services as applicable
• Demonstrate leadership, and strong organizational, presentation and communication skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher required
• Project Management Professional (PMP)(FROM PMI) required
• Scrum Master Certification a plus
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience
• Experience with vendor management and vendor package implementations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project
• Experience with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow, and Azure DevOps a plus
• Strong technical background a plus
• Certification or a degree in computer science, information systems or engineering a plus