Project Manager

TekWissen ®; Warsaw (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen Group seeks a seasoned Project Manager to support multiple initiatives, including operations integrations, quality remediations, process improvements, and system implementations. You will lead cross-functional teams, coach consultants, and drive day-to-day execution of integration plans to meet objectives and budgets.

The role requires a Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of cross-functional PM experience, with strong communication and consulting skills to navigate fast-moving environments.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of cross-functional project management experience.
• Proven track record of delivering complex PM initiatives.
• Experience leading M&A integration projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement M&A integration plans aligning objectives, timelines, budgets, resources, milestones, and success criteria.
• Lead integration initiatives and teams to realize synergies and transitions.
• Drive day-to-day execution of the integration process and coach cross-functional teams.
• Implement the integration scorecard to track progress toward goals.
• Prepare and deliver regular status reports for executive management on progress, risks and issues.
• Provide direction, oversight and coaching to M&A integration consultants and contractors.
• Manage project execution to deliver within the budget.
• Review deliverables to ensure quality and add value.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across functions to align priorities.

Skills

Communications

Change management

Facilitation

Conflict resolution

Client management

Consulting skills

PM concepts

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. Client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.

Job Description:

Job Summary

This position will provide project management support to various initiatives across the company, including: Operations integrations, Quality remediations, Process improvements, System implementations, Various other strategic initiatives

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement M&A integration plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources pool, milestones, deliverables and end-of-integration success criteria
• Lead integration initiatives and teams to realize synergies and/or execute functional area transitions
• Drive day-to-day execution of the overall integration process, including coaching cross-functional teams and leading weekly integration team meetings to ensure activity plans remain relevant and are being executed
• Implement the integration scorecard to track progress toward goals
• Prepare and conduct project status reports to update executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues
• Provide direction, oversight and coaching to M&A integrations consultants and contractors
• Manages project execution to achieve project deliverables within the budget
• Reviews deliverables prepared by other project team members to assure quality and provide additional insight and perspective

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e. KSAs)

• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong skills in change management, meeting facilitation and conflict resolution
• Strong presentation and client management skills
• The ability to talk confidently about the issues and success factors relating to such projects
• Consulting skills: ability to function in an ambiguous, unstructured, fast moving and rapidly changing environment, make quick sense of it and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project manager; strong oral and written communication skills; superior problem solving and analytical skills.
• Project Management Technical Skills: strong understanding of critical PM concepts such as activity plans, milestones, task dependencies, risk and issue tracking, status reporting. Formal project management training and/or certification preferred.

Education/Experience

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years professional work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of cross-functional project management experience
• Must possess an established track record of effective project management

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.