Global Project Manager: Strategy, Delivery & Risk

The Muse Group; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 134,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

The ICTC Global Project Manager is part of the International and In-Country Tax, Treasury and Statutory Centers (ICTC) team in the Mars Corporate Tax and Treasury organization. He/she is responsible for managing Innovation and transformation projects from New Project Request to Post Launch Review, ensuring on-time and on-full delivery.

The role demands robust planning, risk management, and disciplined execution, with leadership to coordinate cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or related major with equivalent business experience.
• 7+ years of projects management or business experience in large scale portfolio, PMO business analytics, program coordination, or a related role.
• Experience in business leadership and business transformation. Highly experienced dealing with senior leaders.
• PMP, Agile, Lean, Power BI or related certifications.

Responsibilities

• Build a feasible and efficient project timeline co-created with Project Team members.
• Use a project management tool to build project timeline and ensure the data accuracy at any time.
• Ensure proper follow-up with the Project Team to make sure deliverables are delivered on time.
• The GPM will ensure a robust Risk Management which is also critical for a successful project delivery.
• The GPM will ensure to bring visibility of project status, elevate risks & issues, make escalations at the right time and by the right stakeholders for efficient decision making.
• Maintain a collaborative, motivated, and effective Project team by actively engaging participants and identifying & escalating any challenges when needed and adapting ways of working.
• Ensures that connections are made at the right level both at Project Team level and across Mars and segment organization stakeholders.
• Manage expectations of key stakeholders and keep them apprised of significant wins, updates, or initiatives that impact their work or business.
• Shape timely relevant project communications including clear recommendations to the different forums/SOP+ steps.
• Actively build and maintain project metrics and portfolio dashboards, executive scorecards, risk heat maps, and performance views.
• Set up a productive meeting structure, pre-align with key stakeholders on escalations and topics to be discussed before key meetings, and conduct regular reviews to ensure that meetings deliver the right outcomes.
• Document meeting outcomes and distributes outcomes and action items - use existing project management tools to log action items for project team.
• Escalate issues that cannot be resolved within the team and require a higher level of discussion.
• Drive efficient root causes analysis & problem solving with the relevant stakeholders with the objectives to bring clear options/solutions as main outcomes.
• Conducts stage gate learnings sessions and post project reviews to capitalize on learnings for future projects.

Skills

PMP

Agile

Lean

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA/Master's degree

Job description

The ICTC Global Project Manager is part of the International and In-Country Tax, Treasury and Statutory Centers (ICTC) team in the Mars Corporate Tax and Treasury organization. He/she is responsible for managing Innovation and transformation projects from New Project Request to Post Launch Review, ensuring on-time and on-full delivery.

The role demands robust planning, risk management, and disciplined execution, with leadership to coordinate cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders across