Senior Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute

Cynet Systems Inc; Franklin Lakes (NJ); Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee project delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations. This pivotal role requires strong project management skills, experience with Workday Adaptive, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams to achieve project goals, maintaining high standards in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of senior project management experience using PMI guidelines.
• Experience with Workday Adaptive is required.
• Proficient in using the Microsoft suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, MS Teams, MS Project).

Responsibilities

• Defines project objectives and manages stakeholders.
• Drives project execution to meet schedule, cost, and quality.
• Manages projects including IT software development activities.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Leadership

Time Management

Risk Management

Tools

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Workday Adaptive

Job description

Job Description:

Pay Range: $70.86hr - $75.86hr

Responsibilities:

• 7 – 10 years of senior project management experience using PMI guidelines.
• Partners with project sponsors and stakeholders to define project objectives and the business case.
• Experience working with Workday Adaptive is required.
• Takes ownership for delivering project objectives and deliverables.
• Drives project execution to meet project schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Establishes project governance structures and defines processes for reporting, review, and approval of project objectives and deliverables.
• Familiarity with working in a regulated environment (GxP), including ensuring audit preparation/documentation is completed and compliant.
• Experience managing projects that include IT software development activities that follow the traditional Software Development Life Cycle (design, development, testing, UAT, deployment activities).
• Experience managing projects with IT components that are delivered using various methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid (practical experience, not just training, certification, or theory).
• Liaise between the IT, business teams, and multiple vendors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Experience with executive-level communications, written & oral.
• Proficient in using the Microsoft suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, MS Teams, MS Project).

Competencies, Skills and Knowledge:

• Has technical and practical knowledge of core Program Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) concepts and principles (e.g., agile, work breakdown structure, waterfall planning).
• Demonstrated experience managing/leading projects from initiation through closure.
• Skilled in establishing detailed definitions of scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project management processes, tools, and templates (MS Project/SharePoint/etc).
• Experienced in establishing various Management Plans for key Knowledge Areas: Schedule, Scope, Resource, Finance/Budget, Stakeholder, Risk/Issue, etc.
• Experienced in establishing and ensuring adherence to governance/controls for project change control, and project status/progress reporting.
• Proactive in identifying and collaboratively addressing risks and issues.
• Ability to engage the Project Team and stakeholder community/sponsorship to address risks and issues in a timely manner.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal and external customers and key stakeholders.
• Is committed to meeting internal customers’ expectations and needs while maintaining objectivity and transparency.
• Has technical knowledge and communication proficiency to engage with external customers and suppliers.

Leadership Skills and Presence:

• Demonstrable resilience, empathy, and accountability.
• Gains support by actively and consistently involving others.
• Has an awareness and understanding of their audience, and the best ways to engage them to obtain decisions and sustain their active engagement and support.
• Possesses leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives.
• Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project risks and issues.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Experienced in the techniques to work with diverse, cross-functional, and virtual teams and environments.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Able to work on multiple concurrent activities and prioritize personal workload and teamwork load to optimize project delivery.
• Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops to achieve stated outcomes and drive decisions.
• Creating and adhering to meeting objectives and agendas, timely distribution of meeting minutes, and follow-up on actions.

Collaborative Approach:

• Problem solver, active listener, and adaptable to changes.
• Organized and Detail-Oriented.