Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Client Management:

• Generally acts as Client Service Manager for one or more strategically important clients.
• Interacts with senior-level client stakeholders including local, state and national political decision makers. The Senior PM consistently demonstrates the attributes of a Trusted Advisor by providing expertise and value to clients beyond the technical execution of project deliverables.
• Anticipates client needs and meets the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.
• Recommends additional business solutions to meet a client's current and/or future needs.

Business Development:

• Develops market assessments and supports the Practice Leader or Regional Director in the development and execution of national or regional market strategy.
• Leads the project pursuit process, and acts as the Pursuit Lead for significant revenue project revenue streams.
• Leads the proposal development and interview preparation phases to ensure the company is well-positioned to win key projects. Coordinates the creation of proposal/pursuit information with business line and marketing staff.
• Meets or exceeds region specific sales targets by leveraging existing client relationships.
• Utilizes targeted marketing efforts to identify, position and acquire new clients on behalf of the company.
• Generally responsible for creating meaningful revenue streams (in excess of $500,000 annually) for the organization.

Project Management:

• Manages or serves in an advisor role on highly specialized, complex, and/or strategic projects. Projects managed are of sufficient complexity and scope that the Senior PM will likely work with task leaders to ensure projects are coordinated and effectively executed.
• Proactively anticipates project issues and shows the ability to navigate complex client, political or technical issues to mitigate the impact on project delivery staff.
• Leads the development of scope, fee and contract to ensure understanding of project deliverables with client staff.
• Builds and manages the Project Plan that includes phases, tasks, timelines, contingencies and description of critical paths. Ensures plan is updates to facilitate companywide workload planning processes.
• Oversees the technical direction and manages resources to meet or exceed the budget and schedule.
• Conducts kickoff and regular project meetings where the schedule, project plan, and client expectations are regularly discussed to ensure delivery stays on track to meet client expectations.
• Initiates changes in scope, addendums and change orders necessary to ensure financial performance of projects under management.
• Directs and reviews the work of junior staff, and ensures that the firm's quality control and quality assurance processes are followed.
• May provide individual technical contribution to the project under management.
• Generally manages annual revenue in excess of $500,000.

Team Leadership:

• Identifies the time and resources needed to deliver the project and builds an effective team.
• Manages projects by assigning tasks and closely monitoring progress against task budget and dates. Holds team members accountable for achieving the desired result on a project.
• Leads Project Team Meetings and distributes meeting minutes to team members and the client as appropriate.
• Resolves conflicts by ensuring they are addressed immediately and in the appropriate manner. Uses interpersonal skills to diffuse issues between team members.
• Project Financials:
• Develops and analyzes financial reports.
• Monitors and resolves such issues as scope creep, cost overruns, change orders, and delays.
• Ensures the client is billed according to the contract schedule.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in related engineering discipline.
• Professionally registered (P.E.) in the state in which HR Green Inc. conducts business.
• Has worked for 8 years as a Project Manager
• Five years as a Project Manager on projects each worth at least $500,000 in design fees and collectively resulting in revenue managed of at least $100,000 per year.
• Ability to assist in selling work to existing clients.
• Demonstrated strong business development competency by obtaining significant new business and/or cross selling additional consulting services.
• Has a history of successfully completing complex projects for small and/or large client bases.
• Has been actively involved in one or more industry groups.

Benefits:

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