Hybrid Global PMO Manager

Winston & Strawn LLP; Chicago (IL); In loco; USD 115.000 - 147.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Bonus potential

Descrizione del lavoro

Winston Taylor's Project Management Office seeks a seasoned Project Manager to partner with stakeholders across global teams, scope and plan medium to high complexity projects, and deliver business improvements and technology initiatives. You will lead meetings, prepare charters, manage risks, and drive adoption with Change Managers, QA, and IT, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with firm strategy.

This role requires 3+ years in professional services and the ability to travel to offices 3–4

Competenze

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• 3+ years of project management experience in a law firm or relevant professional services environment required.
• Must live within a commutable distance to a firm office with ability to come into the office 3-4 days per week.
• Advanced knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
• Strong leadership, prioritization, and organization skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain ongoing relationships with firm leadership, customers, stakeholders, and project sponsors.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to present detailed or complicated information in an understandable way to firm attorneys and staff.
• Strong information gathering and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated ability to apply critical thinking to complex situations.
• Experience working with and collaborating among interdisciplinary teams to identify and solve complex business problems.
• Experience managing projects associated with mergers, acquisitions, and organizational integrations, including coordination of cross-functional teams, dependencies, risks, and business transition activities.
• Skilled in conveying business requirements to the appropriate business leaders and/or IS team members and, where necessary, with vendors.
• Capable of overseeing technical creation and implementation of business solutions.

Mansioni

• Partner with project sponsors or subject matter experts to identify and document a project's business requirements with a focus on increasing business effectiveness and efficiencies, including development of project feasibility and cost-benefit analyses.
• Lead and facilitate project meetings ensuring effective and timely communication across the project team, especially among project stakeholders and PMO leadership.
• Prepare project charters and project plans and deliver projects within allocated time and resource targets to satisfy the defined scope and quality.
• Identify risks, manage scope changes and resource constraints, and develop mitigation strategies as needed.
• Drive decision-making and escalation among project stakeholders, PMO leadership, and firm leadership, when appropriate.
• Continuously improve upon existing project management methodology. Assist with the expansion of the firm's project management methodology, best practices, and tools
• Prepare recommendations for technological and business solutions based on project requirements.
• Develop and maintain project objective(s), scope, and work plan related to software development, implementations of new or modified applications, and business processes.
• Communicate with project teams and management regarding the status of all ongoing projects including project issues and accomplishments. Ensure completion of project deliverables based on identified requirements and approved timeline.
• Work closely with the Quality Assurance Manager and Business Analyst roles to monitor and track defects identified during testing through resolution.
• Work closely with Change Managers to support organizational readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption activities, ensuring successful implementation and sustained realization of project objectives.
• Coordinate project rollout to the user community, including communications, documentation, reference guides and demonstrations.
• Understand integrations between all applications/systems maintained by the Firm.
• Research and analyze new technologies. Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and establishing personal networks.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conoscenze

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Requirements gathering

Risk management

Change management

Stakeholder management

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Problem-solving

Formazione

Bachelor's Degree

Strumenti

PM tools

Descrizione del lavoro

Winston Taylor's Project Management Office seeks a seasoned Project Manager to partner with stakeholders across global teams, scope and plan medium to high complexity projects, and deliver business improvements and technology initiatives. You will lead meetings, prepare charters, manage risks, and drive adoption with Change Managers, QA, and IT, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with firm strategy.

This role requires 3+ years in professional services and the ability to travel to offices 3–4