Project manager & leader job description

The Project Management Office is seeking a Lead Project Manager who will be instrumental in evolving our PMO. As the Lead Project Manager you will manage a small team of Project Managers and oversee a portfolio of consumer facing projects within the NBC News Group Digital organization. You will be accountable for the overall planning, execution and success of complex, multi-dimensional projects in an Agile environment. You will operate in a matrix environment, managing cross-functional projects and Agile teams that enable and support business goals.

As the Lead Project Manager, you and your team will be responsible for project results - using Agile best practices to plan, execute, and deliver. You will partner closely with your Product, Engineering and Design counterparts to mature Agile team practices while delivering strategic initiatives with operational excellence. This is a hybrid people and project management role and you will have the opportunity to function as the Project Manager for an Agile team while also managing and coaching a small group of
Project Managers.

This role requires strong communication and relationship building skills to effectively manage a portfolio of projects with diverse teams, key stakeholders, and senior executives.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Hire strong Project Management talent and provide regular constructive feedback, coaching team for career growth

Coach Agile teams on Agile practices and principles, delivering high quality products and services to our customers

Collaborate with cross functional team members (product, design, engineering) to set goals and vision while aligning on strategy

Advocate and execute against business goals, driving projects and OKR delivery

Coordinate with multiple teams, driving alignment on project delivery across the portfolio

Evoke an appropriate sense of urgency around priorities within and across teams

Partner with your direct reports to manage, assess, communicate, and improve project and team health using qualitative and quantitative measures

Resolve impediments and build consensus when conflicts arise

Ensure transparency through communication and collaboration with all levels of business and technology including

Build effective, highly collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across multiple disciplines

Where needed, facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies - daily standups, iteration planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews

Identify and oversee project timelines, milestones, owners and manage execution against milestones and key targets

Includes the planning and tracking of projects both (tactical and strategic), cost effectiveness, communication, risk analysis, quality assurance, team and vendor management, and implementation of highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects. Identifies and resolves issues related to projects. Ensures assigned projects are delivered within scope, schedule, budget and quality levels are consistent with partner/customer expectations.Essential Functions:- Manages complex projects or multiple projects of moderate complexity.- Leverages knowledge and prior experience to develop appropriate solutions.- Manages development of business case and may present business case.- Matches appropriate methods to identified client needs.- Demonstrates knowledge of the risk management process.- Participates in the application of the risk management process.- Leverages knowledge of and trains Project Management methodology, skills, tools for team members.- Converts business cases to business plans.- Develops and executes user training plans.- Stays abreast of enterprise-wide projects.- Develops framework and manages the tracking of interdependencies within or across projects.- Accountable for coordination of collection and validation of business requirements.- May determine the impact of current/existing technologies on the project.- Works on assignments of diverse and complex scope.- Interprets less defined guidelines to make recommendations for process improvements and/or enhancements.- Requires complex planning to coordinate with other departments or resources.- Oversees transition of project team members to new projects.- Ensures lessons learned applied to future efforts.
Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum five (5) years of project management experience.

• Demonstrates knowledge and experience re: use of change management process.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field OR four (4) years of experience in a directly related field.

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

License, Certification, Registration

• PMP

Additional Requirements:

• Demonstrates understanding of and applies knowledge in all phases of the project delivery life cycle.

• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scrum &/or Agile

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Project Manager Lead, Health Plan Membership System Releases

LOCATION: San Diego, California

REQNUMBER: 1080727

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.

The Delek retail team is looking for a candidate that will plan, monitor, and manage internal retail capital construction projects from initiation through completion. This candidate will coordinate resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting and people management. The lead project manager will ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule, and cost in addition to schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions.
JobResponsibilities:

-Successfully manage and execute retail construction capital projects, providing direction and oversight throughout the project lifecycle.

-Creates and implements procedures and processes to ensure projects stay on schedule and budget.

-Collaborates with a variety of organizational stakeholders to vet resources estimates, schedules, project financials, environmental/health/safety impacts, project feasibility, or technical reviews as deemed necessary based on assigned project portfolio.

-Produces scopes of work, project plans, cost estimates, schedules, and other required documentation to help with the process of project identification and evaluation in coordination with other team members.

-Delivers effective, accurate, and consistent communication to project teams, management, external clients, and vendors; manage multiple projects simultaneously while interacting with multiple cross functional resource teams.

-Responsible for identification of risk factors and risk ranking of threats posed to project's success during technical and location-oriented risk assessment; develops and implements risk response plan to monitor and control risks throughout project lifecycle.

-Coordinates with supply chain group during the bidding process; evaluating all cost estimates for accuracy and choosing appropriate contractor/vendors, resolving contract disputes and any applicable contractor and inspector issues/disputes.

-Collaborates with the team on project administration (scheduling, estimating, cost management, schedule management, etc.) so that project resources are optimized to achieve established objectives.


RequiredQualifications-Education,Skills&Experience:

At least 10 years of commercial construction related experience, including ground-up sites

Thorough knowledge of construction techniques and the ability to derive the most efficient method of completing tasks

Proven ability to solve complex problems, provide innovative solutions

Strong familiarity with project management best practices

Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle

Excellent analytical skills

Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.