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Job Description Summary
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning, organizing, facilitating and managing a broad range of highly complex and enterprise-scale projects and/or solution implementations. Manages a portfolio of projects and programs involving medium and large teams. Brings enterprise-level perspective to planning and organization of projects.
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Manages project initiation activities including development of project management and communication plans, identify stakeholders, secure project resources, and facilitate project kick-off
- Interacts with cross-functional teams to plan solution releases, testing coordination and implementation of final product.
- Manages project risk, issues and activities to ensure project goals, budget, deadline, scope and quality are achieved. Remove blocks and assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed and serves as escalation point and coordinator for resolving highly complex, urgent, and non-routine product/solution issues.
- Ensures project is progressing as planned through constant prioritization, cost, scope, change and quality management.
- Completes project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance. Hands over documentation and ongoing activities to accountable teams.
- Conducts a retrospective project review to identify areas of improvement.
- Applies and holds team accountable to the use of Pulte’s standard project and functional practices, procedures, and use of tools.
- Oversees and supports the creation of the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for the project.
- Participates in the discovery and selection of external staffing resources and evaluation of solutions and packages.
- Contributes to and champions PulteGroup Project Management best practices,
- methods, standards, and processes.
- Identifies and leads process improvement efforts within the Project Management team.
- Identifies process improvement opportunities for other disciplines/teams.
- Creates project/solution budget projections and manages budget through delivery
- Lifecycle.
- Builds and fosters vendor partnerships and maintains on-going vendor relationships.
- Ensures project deliverables are in alignment with compliance objectives and participates in audit processes.
- Oversees escalated product support including on-call (after-hours, weekends, and holidays) for high priority issues.
- Mentors peers with less experience and coaches project/product team members across all disciplines/roles.
- Proves knowledgeable in the cross-functional tools, practices, and skills utilized through all phases of project/product delivery.
- Participates in the continuous employee review process by providing specific input regarding team member performance.
- Within project team, identifies process gaps or areas for improvement and recommends or implements solutions.
- Coordinates and oversees onboarding of new project team members including system, tools and project methodology training.
- Provides project status and KPI reports to IT leadership.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Career Level (P4)
Organizational Impact:
- Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with major impact on the area of responsibility.
- Contributes to the development of goals the area and planning efforts (budgets, operational plans, etc.).
- Manages large projects or processes with moderate impact on the achievement of sub-family results.
- Work is performed with limited oversight.
- Typically responsible for coaching, reviewing and delegating work to lower-level professionals.
- Provides measurable input to new products, processes or standards in operational plans in order to implement operational objectives
Leadership & Talent Management:
- Typically responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
- Typically responsible for managing major/complex projects at this level, involving delegation of work and review of work products.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Requires deep knowledge of area typically obtained through higher education combined with experience.
- Typically viewed as a subject matter expert within discipline.
- May have broad knowledge of project or program management.
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED) required.
- Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 6-8 years of prior relevant experience.
Required Skills
- Not applicable
Required Licensing, Registration and/or Certifications
- PMI-PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-PfMP, PMI-PgMP or recognized equivalent required
Physical Requirements:
- May require travel
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