Sr. Enterprise Project Manager

Overview

Sr. Enterprise Project Manager - Financial Cloud

Location: Remote (California)

Duration: 12+ months

Job Description

This position is responsible for the delivery execution for executing a program and its projects. This is a senior level individual contributor role that will work with Project Management, one or more Portfolio Delivery Managers, and Technology Delivery to plan and execute programs or large, complex projects in accordance with the Product roadmaps and priorities. The position is responsible for ongoing program communications to ensure current business priorities are being met, hands-on management and delivery of program and projects to meet the planned delivery date(s), budget, scope, and risk by consistently following Delta\'s Delivery Lifecycle, to deliver high quality outcomes.

The person in this role will be passionate about delivering to a consistently high quality with a focus on identifying and managing overall risks, issues, dependencies and decisions, a dependency-driven project schedule, the resource plan (Business and IT), scope management, financials, communication plan, change management, vendor management, knowledge management, and Delta\'s Delivery Lifecycle.

This role will be expected to mentor and provide guidance to Project Managers, and be a thought leader for ongoing process improvements within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Creates a program roadmap in partnership with cross-functional teams that reflect the program objectives and strategies and is aligned with the PDM roadmap to ensure core capabilities are being delivered
• Provides the Program milestones to the Portfolio Manager
• Creates and maintains an overall, optimized, integrated program schedule clearly identifying dependencies, milestones, and status to baseline
• Develops executive level presentations to provide insight into the overall strategy and project health, make recommendations on how to work through challenges or next steps, and define any asks to leadership or decisions that need to be made and the timing required
• Manages risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions within the program and cross functionally
• Manages program financials including performing financial spend trend analysis, reconciling any discrepancies, and tracking program/project vendor accruals
• Manages vendors to contract/SOW
• Develops and maintains a Program Knowledge Management site which provides a single place for all project information that allows stakeholders to easily find program information
• Mentors and provides guidance to Project Managers
• Contributes ideas to ongoing process improvements within the organization
• This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned

Skills / Experience

Job Requirements:

• BA, or equivalent experience or Masters preferred
• Minimum 6 years related experience
• Minimum 2 years supervisory experience
• PMP certification preferred, or working towards PGPM certification
• Strong organizational/time management and project management skills and multi-tasking abilities
• Demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of personnel and communicate clearly in a professional manner, requiring strong organizational, administrative and interpersonal skills, both oral and written. Possess superior people management and leadership skills
• Demonstrated analysis and problem solving skills using innovative thinking
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to effectively identify and manage project risks
• Expert knowledge of project development life cycle, including the ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects. Experience with one or more project development methodologies is a plus. Should be familiar with various project models suitable for rapid development
• Knowledge of health care industry issues preferred
• Ability to clearly present written information and findings
• Ability to communicate concepts
• Ability to make executive-level presentations
• Ability to interact well with co-workers and outside contacts
• PC literacy required; MSOffice skills (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong knowledge and experience using Microsoft Project
• Regularly required to work standard office equipment (personal computer, photocopy machine, fax machine, etc.)
• Ability to work on a computer up to 7 hours a day
• Regularly required to sit for long periods of time, and occasionally stand and walk
• Regularly required to use hands to operate computer and other office equipment
• Close vision required for computer usage

Required Skills:

• Experience in managing end to end Oracle ERP Implementations, preferably SaaS. This will be a huge win since the multi-year financials cloud implementation is about Oracle Financials SaaS Implementations. A person who has managed implementations in this space would be the best fit.
• Experience in working with system integrators/Implementers. Able to collaborate with their project managers and align
• Experience in managing payroll implementation projects
• Vendor Management experience
• Experience in working on projects dealing with prominent SaaS vendors like Oracle, Workday etc
• Understanding of Agile delivery model. Able to align with Scrum Masters/Product Owners as needed on the tasks