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Delivery Lead
4 month+ contract
Onsite 4x/week, Los Angeles
The Delivery Lead, Timekeeping Systems is responsible for leading teams to deliver programs and projects across the Timekeeping value chain. This role will lead matrixed project teams and 3rd party resources. The span of the role will encompass portfolio planning, project management, delivery execution, and strategic planning.
This Delivery Lead, Timekeeping Systems:
- Accountable for technical delivery of large-scale, complex implementation projects
- Responsible for leading the delivery of projects with a team consisting of project managers, solution architects, product and engineering (S/W) teams
- Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, other technology partners and delivery managers
- Interfaces with key partners and vendors, ensuring they understand both program and project deliverables, meet timing, and cost deadlines, and collaborate with internal project stakeholders to achieve project results
- Actively leads project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification
- Actively leads in establishing and tracking progress to key performance indicators
- Responsible for evaluating and tracking overall project health and status; producing actionable insights
- Constantly looking ahead to identify project delivery problems and shortfalls, proposing and actioning solutions
- Identifies and ensures Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) are logged and actioned; works with project management and execution team to resolve items
- Proactively identifies and actively leads in the resolution of issues and conflicts
- Responsible for escalations to leadership and to vendors as appropriate to drive results
- Leads/participates in sourcing and contracting activities
- Consistently works with the project management team to review program expenditures against the program operating expense and capital budgets
- Continually apprises leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track
- Communicates successes supported by metrics/KPIs illustrating the business value of IT solutions
- Ensures clear communication of project scopes, timing, prioritization, budgets, resource needs, and progress on an ongoing basis
- Builds strong relationships and partners with large and diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels, from end users to executives, across the enterprise
- Participates in strategic planning and road-mapping for the portfolio
Skills & Key Attributes
- Flexible and adaptable; ability to complete projects and achieve results in an ambiguous work environment
- Develop and maintain relationships with partners and leaders across functions and segments
- Ability to break down and solve complex problems
- Innovative thinking and embraces innovation by constantly seeking new or contrary ideas and approaches to what has been done in the past
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrixed organizational structure
- Works well with a team, ability to lead and influence others
- Exemplary communication and presentation skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences
- Results oriented, biased toward action
- Works independently, receives minimal guidance
- Strong consensus-building ability and negotiating skills
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of stakeholders and audiences
- Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple, concurrent projects while meeting aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment, including ability to manage multiple project resources, with extensive project planning and execution skills
- Possess an orientation for results and excellence, inspire confidence and demonstrate conceptual and analytical thinking, initiative and flexibility
- Management and execution skills to deliver and operate enterprise services on time, on budget and with reliable quality
Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience leading large programs and global teams with 5+ technical managerial experience
- Experience establishing and driving strategy and design for, and implementing and/or upgrading major ERP / Finance/ HR platforms
- Experience leading large, matrixed project teams including architects, developers, operations, PMs, business analysts, and vendor partners
- Experience in leading inter-organization change to increase efficiency through the implementation of technology
- Experience managing program, project and team budget and financials
- Experience with Security and Compliance
- Experience building and managing high-performance and highly-motivated teams
- Proven track record of execution--driving results and meeting commitments
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Company Profile:
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Benefits Information:
Beacon Hill offers a robust benefit package including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, and federal and state leave programs as required by applicable agency regulations to those that meet eligibility. Upon successfully being hired, details will be provided related to our benefit offerings.
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