Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

ADP is hiring a Senior Project Manager. In this (non IT) individual contributor position, you'll lead teams responsible for the successful planning, coordination, and implementation of projects to ensure business goals and objectives are accomplished within designated timeframes and budgets. Unlock Your Career Potential: Project Management at ADP. It's the machine that propels us forward with commitment and excellence. You are savvy about our business environment and know how to adeptly manage people and processes. You have the leadership and analytical skills to ensure projects reach the finish line -- on time, within scope and within budget. We give you the tools to succeed, with continuous opportunities to train and advance. We strive for every interaction to be driven by our CORE values: Insightful Expertise, Integrity is Everything, Service Excellence, Inspiring Innovation, Each Person Counts, Results-Driven, and Social Responsibility.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead all project phases, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure
• Direct day-to-day activities of projects and staff in matrixed organization
• Ensure milestones are successfully met through oversight of project vehicles and coordination of resources
• Work collaboratively with other departments impacting project.
• Lead communication with stakeholders and team members through completion of the project
• Direct project timeliness and budgets
• Assess, manage, resolve and escalate (if necessary) risks and issues
• Employs highly developed consultative skills
• Tailor processes to meet the needs of individual projects
• Make decisions based on information and input in a timely manner
• Provide analysis of project, including business case, ROI and post-project review
• Drive innovation, best practices and achievement of strategic objectives
• Work on projects of high complexity

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• At least five years of end-to-end project management experience as a Project Manager highly necessary
• Experience managing large cross-functional and/or multi-year projects important
• Experience with industry standard and project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Monday.com and WorkFront) and structured methodologies (e.g., PMBOK)
• Ability to interface with and present to all levels of the organization
• Commitment to being accountable for results
• Proven track record of building relationships internally
• Strong focus on client service

A college degree is great but not required. What's more important is having the skills to do the job.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to candidates who have the following:

• PMP or equivalent professional project management certification
• Experience managing agile projects a plus
• Ability to effectively communicate with multiple functions/organizations to identify and negotiate required resources
• Excellent negotiation, communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Ability to manage across formal organizational lines
• Strong team leadership and ability to delegate responsibility to all levels of the project team and hold team accountable for deliverables
• Expertise with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project and Visio
• Ability to think independently and make decisions
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to work.