Senior Project Manager Job Description

Senior Project Manager Job Description

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Senior project manager provides project reports and updates of project management activities with the UnaVista Project Management Office, ensuring full transparency of projects.

Senior Project Manager Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Deliverables may include Impact Assessment docs, Functional Specifications, Design Documentation, Project Charter, and Project Plans, Burn Down Charts
Consult with management and review project proposals to determine goals, time frames, budgetary requirements, processes and procedures for accomplishing the project, staffing requirements, and allocation of resources
Coordinate testing and Q/A processes and ensure traceability to original requirements
Analyzes and documents user requirements for enhancements to business processes and/or systems
Work with internal and external resources, business unit members to scope, define, analyse, estimate and oversee a variety of large scale projects (including infrastructure, data, systems and processes) from start to finish
Leverage project tracking tools and processes for consistency and efficiency of implementations
Work alongside other Project Managers by identifying and sharing best practices and developing proven project tracking tools and processes
Responsible for oversight of the complete release and campaign training program including but not limited to Instructor Lead Training Collateral, QRCs, Recorded Training, Service Central, Meetings in a Box, Coaching Guides, (as determined by release or campaign)
Provide functional line management for assigned Instructional Designers as it pertains to projects
Manage day-to-day activities of development projects

Senior Project Manager Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Senior Project Manager

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, PMBOK, PRINCE2, ITL, PM, HITRUST, CCM, ITIL, EPIC

Education for Senior Project Manager

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the senior project manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Computer Science, Architecture, Education, Technical, Business/Administration, Construction Management, Management

Skills for Senior Project Manager

Desired skills for senior project manager include:

Architectural drawings and furniture and space planning concepts
Excel
Microsoft Office
Projects & project management within the context of business results
Microsoft Project
Design
Project management methodologies
MS Office applications and MS Project
MS Project
Processes

Desired experience for senior project manager includes:

Ensure proper level of documentation is delivered with each project
Play the role of Scrum Master for a dedicated team of resources
Experience with Rapid Application Development and Scrum methodologies
Manages the project through all phases of the project management cycle
Ensures that there is a detailed implementation plan for each project production installation, monitors compliance with the defined plan, and monitors the project for post-implementation issues
Monitors project performance and identifies areas where new/improved plans can improve the quality of existing services recommend means for improvement, including procedural steps, increased training, and enhanced documentation

Senior Project Manager Examples

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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a senior project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior project manager
  • Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops / implements changes as needed to ensure the project remains within scope, on schedule, and under budget
  • Delivering projects on-time, within budget in a compliant and reliable manner
  • Leading cross-functional project teams from project onset through post implementation activities
  • Obtaining stakeholder alignment
  • Identification of project risks and developing risk mitigation plans
  • Develop an Operations solution with high-level requirements
  • Work with SMEs across company to gather data for opportunity assessment
  • Quantify potential cost savings opportunities
  • Own governance process and stakeholder updates
  • Lead workshops and meetings
Qualifications for senior project manager
  • Ability to organize tasks and activities in an efficient/effective manner – but NOT looking for PMI certification/adherence
  • Must be able to effectively facilitate planning sessions with various internal and external stakeholders
  • Must be willing and able to effectively facilitate classroom training
  • Intermediate level analytical skills to support metrics & KPI analysis
  • Must be collaborative and an effective negotiator
  • Must be a resourceful and creative problem solver
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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior project manager
  • Acting or identifying appropriate Subject Matter Expert to promote end-to-end perspective supporting the TDS Strategic Roadmap
  • Develop project plans to manage the delivery
  • Manage project expenditure and benefits realisation
  • Structure teams and manage resources
  • Facilitate all aspects of stakeholder relationships
  • Provide leadership of business and organisational change
  • Develops initial project cost assessments leveraging knowlegde and experience from internal and external partners and resources
  • Develop and manage the Automation and Process Digitization (A&PD) Delivery Portfolio Roadmap
  • Manage multi-million dollar project budgets
  • Responsible for projects of 12 – 16 months + in duration
Qualifications for senior project manager
  • Experience with digital and social projects and deliverables ranging from $10k to $2m
  • Strong ability to manage account, strategy, creative, analytics, and technical teams, manage direct reports
  • Bachelor’s degree, degrees in marketing, communications, or related fields preferred
  • Understanding of, and experience executing projects with that adhere to platform guidelines, legal considerations, advertising regulations and social/digital best practices
  • Experience in the digital space, specifically as it relates to the digital and social creative process
  • A sparkling personality that will mesh well with the existing VaynerMedia family (we love smart people with a dash of quirkiness and humor)
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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior project manager
  • Assist in process improvement of Project Processes
  • Working with multiple business and legal stakeholders to assess legal implications of and incorporate legal requirements to the digital application
  • Supported cross border readiness project to roll out the app to neighboring countries
  • Led work stream developing new digital products and services for a financial regulating body
  • Developed a digital strategy paper for the executive board to guide the clients on their approach and development of ‘digital’ services and a customer centric organization
  • Led work stream to develop framework for selecting and assessing countries for piloting
  • Responsible for developing global exit policy and designing group governance
  • Supporting global deployment
  • Supported global peer benchmarking, Voice of Customer feedback analysis and creation of user profiles
  • Responsible for conducting an Innovation workshop for global heads to generate digital strategy
Qualifications for senior project manager
  • Highly motivated, innovative and results-oriented individual with excellent analytical skills
  • Strong influencing skills with excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills in order to build consensus and obtain co-operation
  • More than 10 years of work experience with minimum of 5 years in senior manager role
  • Ensuring the EPMO Project Management lifecycle is followed
  • Establishing appropriate project governance
  • Establishing a comprehensive business case and project plan
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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior project manager
  • Drive Project teams through internal corporate processes and milestones, building relationships with external collaborators, to ensure alignment across joint decisions
  • Manage all of the team engagements & ensure adequate participation
  • Create the team roles & responsibilities
  • Responsible for FICO related project communication across LAM, including presentation of reports and solutions to higher management and stakeholders
  • Close follow up of TradeCo Lite project stream including legal and operational implications
  • Ensure that TradeCo Lite roll out does not impact the business operations nor legal exposure from the subsidiaries
  • Together with SD/MM collegue create OMEGA LAM Project Plan à follow up on tasks and keep all parties involved aware of deadlines
  • Align dependencies within and beyond project scope
  • Manage formal reviews and management reviews, track progress, issues, change requests, business cases related to FICO streams
  • Manage all aspects of project life cycle
Qualifications for senior project manager
  • Integrated portfolio reporting
  • Managing projects with moderate regulatory oversight (risk profiles are low to medium)
  • Management direction or executive oversight provided as necessary
  • Typically leads the delivery of Tier 3 and / or Tier 4 projects with up to medium complexity profiles
  • May indirectly manage a cross-LoB Project team consisting of Business Analysts, Business SMEs and Technology
  • Resource management where applicable to the project
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Senior Project Manager Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior project manager
  • Performs some technical, administrative, and logistical liaison roles with company, Department of Energy, design agencies, laboratories, integrated contractors and other government agencies for weapons and growth programs
  • Have the primary leadership responsibility in managing both the client relationship (in collaboration with Managing Principal, Design Principal, and Technical Principal) and project success, as measured in client satisfaction, work quality, profitability, and fostering team professionalism and collaboration
  • Be responsible for managing all phases of project thru construction including budgeting, scheduling, planning, design, construction documents
  • A professional degree in Architecture or Interior Design, or related discipline
  • Preparation of project costs calculation (P&L)
  • Support sales team, customer presentations
  • Product or system presentations, product knowledge
  • Support by proposal setup and contract negotiations
  • Lead and manage large complex IT projects from initiation to implementation
  • Accountable for delivering large projects on time, within defined scope and within budget
Qualifications for senior project manager
  • Experience in Package implementation eg
  • Experience of delivering complex projects involving multiple stakeholders across different geographical locations with a significant amount of uncertainty
  • Must have proven experience following project management best practices and methodologies within the financial or similar industry, including knowledge of SDLC (Software development lifecycle)
  • Knowledge &experience in Online Banking and Mobile banking is an asset
  • Advanced understanding of IT principals, including lifecycle planning, estimating and architecture
  • Track record of delivering software and infrastructure projects within a technically complex and dynamic environment

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