Risk Project Manager (ONSITE)

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - 1 Year(s)

Skills

project management
cross-functional team leadership
communication skills
written communication
oral communication
presentation skills
New Product Introduction
life cycle project management
multitasking
business process improvement
influencing skills
leadership
FPX (Functional Project Excellence)
data analysis
project metric analysis
Process Excellence certification
Six Sigma
supplier qualifications
material issue management
portfolio optimization
portfolio management
stakeholder management
governance approval
project scheduling techniques
project templates
project dashboards
update forms
team accountability
project status monitoring
lessons learned facilitation
risk management
contingency planning
stakeholder alignment
scope control
executive communication.

Job Details

Location will be in Titusville, NJ.

Please note that this is a 1-year contract.

Qualifications
Required:

  • A Bachelor's Degree in Business is required.

  • A minimum of 5 years of relevant business experience

  • Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills

  • Proven record of leading projects and delivering results

  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams

  • Experience in New Product Introduction and/or Life Cycle Project Management

  • Capability of leading/overseeing multiple projects at the same time is required

Preferred:

  • Process Excellence or Six Sigma training/certification

  • Demonstrated leadership & influencing skills across organizational levels

  • Experience with standard PM tools and templates

Top Three Skills:

  • Project Management Skills / Experience

  • Demonstrated experience leading teams without authority

  • Strong communication skills

Job Description:
This role requires a dynamic individual who can collaborate and communicate effectively with cross-functional team members and external partners. A successful candidate will demonstrate experience in the successful delivery of complex project management, working in areas of product transfers or discontinuations, supplier qualifications, material issue management, and/or portfolio optimization, as well as portfolio management.

This role requires aptitude in the following skills: leadership, project management methodologies & fundamentals (FPX preferred), data & project metric analysis, business process improvement, influencing, and executive communication. The selected individual will be highly focused and self-directed to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery of projects in accordance with defined scope.

Project Leadership

  • With limited direction, lead cross-company project teams in a dynamic environment to identify, recommend and execute the best for enterprise business solutions/propositions

  • Drive activities to meet project and business objectives including approval of project recommendations through governance

  • Influence others beyond own scope and level; lead communications with all levels of stakeholders to enable informed decision making

  • Drive cross-company team accountability for deliverables and ensure projects meet defined project milestones

  • Demonstrate team performance management; ask the right questions to understand business impact and risks

  • Make the complex simple when presenting opportunities and plans to the team and organization

  • Lead team through options analysis and drive recommendations

Project Execution

  • Develop, manage and maintain up-to-date Project Timelines inclusive of all critical milestones, key interdependencies, financial commitments, and resource constraints, while applying appropriate project scheduling techniques

  • Monitor project status and execution; report timely updates via Project Templates, Project Dashboards and Update Forms; and develop a project culture of accountability

  • Deliver transparent, timely and effective verbal and written communication to teams, stakeholders and appropriate levels of the organization

  • Lead "lessons learned" exercises, share lessons among project leaders and other teams

Facilitation & Risk Management

  • Engage teams in healthy debate/conflict resolution, and deliver team-aligned option business solutions

  • Proactively identify and escalate risks and issues to relevant stakeholders; lead development and delivery of tactical and achievable mitigation and contingency planning

  • Scope definitions and control: stakeholder alignment, project planning, project execution

Applicants must provide their phone number. Reference job number A4792.

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