Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager Location: Remote Duration: 12-month contract Pay: $65+/hour JOB DESCRIPTION Our global Fortune 500 client, with U.S. headquarters in Charlotte, NC, is a world class food service provider with a strong presence across the nation. Celebrating almost 30 years in North America, this employee-focused company has received honors for diversity and inclusion, innovation, health and wellness, and company culture. CRG has successfully placed over 220 employees within the last 7 years within this organization, known for its continuous growth opportunities, fantastic benefits package, innovative technology, flexible work environment, and collaborative culture. The Senior Project Manager position reports into the Technical PMO. The candidate is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more technology and business units. This candidate should be able to identify and realize business outcomes through the use of the most suitable and effective project management approach, methods, processes, and tools to ensure a high degree of delivery and solution quality. RESPONSIBILITIES * Works as a hybrid project manager using Agile approaches inside a larger waterfall structure to allow for quicker innovation of some parts alongside fixed schedules for others. * Ability to blend traditional project management phases, such as planning and risk management, with agile practices, such as iterative development and continuous feedback. * Manage and execute key projects and programs to ensure that deadlines are met, potential roadblocks and risks anticipated, escalated, and solved for. * Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility by working with project technical leads. * Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks, and issues * Partner with relevant cross-functional teams (Legal, Organization Senior Leadership, and IT) to set up programs for success including capturing action items from meetings and providing regular status reporting * Address program issues by identifying and selecting a course of action by considering program constraints and objectives to enable continued program success * Quickly evaluate and prioritize projects based on changes in needs, resources, roadblocks, and deadlines * Translate relevant, actionable information to be digestible by multiple audiences (project-level resources to executives) * Facilitate project meetings and working sessions, bringing together the right cross-functional team members to monitor project progress, keep each other accountable on commitments and deliverables based on the schedule, and quickly and proactively identify recommendations and solutions to resolve project challenges, consider alternatives, and resolve issues. QUALIFICATIONS * Minimum of 5+ years of project management experience * Ability to execute Agile approaches within a larger waterfall structure * Agile practitioner mindset with an understanding of common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and iterative development practices * Demonstrated ability leading large, complex enterprise projects, particularly those involving a significant degree of change across the organization * Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills with strong Excel and PowerPoint skills * Ability to work effectively with and communicate complex ideas to people at all levels in an organization * Travel as needed (less than 25%) Category Code: JN008

Created: 2024-10-31