Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage cross functional leads to ensure alignment with master level project milestones
- Ensure project milestones roll up for inclusion into portfolio level reporting and prioritization.
- Manage project requirements gather, activities, budgets, resources, schedules, risks, and reporting for key stakeholders, developers, business analysts, customers, and other team members.
- Lead project completion and project closure activities and documentation.
- Lead and manage multiple complex projects.
- Ensure all expectations are clearly defined, documented, and measureable success points are identified.
- Define and deliver clear written and verbal communications in all documentation and interactions.
- Proactively promote EPMO services to organization where applicable.
- Provide constructive feedback to help optimize and streamline EPMO procedures and processes.
- Provide guidance and leadership to all team members. Act as a mentor and role model for other team members.
- Provide insight around potential risks and opportunities, resolve conflict or issues in a timely fashion, initiate resolution and deliver results
- Proactively work with EPMO leadership to define and document: o Scope and objectives. o Project planning and assumptions including project scope and define initial project assumptions. o Risk identification, documentation, and resolution. o Prioritization and escalation management. o Deliverables development and review.
- Identify and manage any cross-functional dependencies or impacts and communicate to appropriate stakeholders and teams.
- Define and manage a project governance strategy and plan (i.e., structure, people, and information).
- Utilize PM tools to facilitate managing all project information including scope, assumptions, tasks, resource allocation, project tracking, risks, issues, and prioritization.
- Define and document project Measures of Success (MOS).
- Proactively manage Change Control Process as defined in EPMO process documentation.
- Identify and document any cross functional / departmental touch points or areas of potential impact. Closely monitor and manage scope and change requests.
- Coordinate and conduct training sessions to ensure project team members are prepared for process, policy and system deployments or changes.
- Lead the development of project plans and communication strategies. All project plans must be in line with the SDLC and follow standard project management methodology.
- Communicate effectively using sound judgment in making decisions, and interacting with a broad range of technical and non-technical audiences. This includes the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group including team members, managers, subject matter experts, and executives.
- Build positive and effective relationships with stakeholders, peers, vendors, and throughout the organization, including company leadership and executives.
- Work consistently professionally, reliably and objectively. Accept ownership for your piece of work.
Qualifications:
• A Bachelor's degree in a technical or management discipline.
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP) required.
• Seven plus (7+) years of program/project management experience.
• Background with projects involving content management, set top box hardware/software, and targeted advertising systems and/or audience measurements systems is a strong plus.
• Has experience with Program Management as well as Project Management.
• Experience managing large scale cross-enterprise project budgets and teams. • Experience with manage multiple large projects simultaneously.
• Experience interacting with business project sponsor, business subject matter experts, key stakeholders and project team members on project scope, schedules, risks, requirements, communication, quality assurance and issue resolution is required.
• Familiarity with front end user interface design, digital marketing, product development, and order processing is a strong plus.
• Experience with MS Project required; MS Project Server preferred.
In addition, we look for people with the following attributes:
• Effective Communication and Collaboration Skills
• Will Do/Can Do Attitude
• Results Driven
• Critical Thinker
• Change Champion
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
