The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver projects that span across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, financials and adhere to safety and quality guidelines throughout the full life cycle of assigned projects. This also includes management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery and company business strategies.
The Senior Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case.

Responsibilities:

Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously
Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization
Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
Participate and/or drive vendor selections and proposals for evaluation
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources while monitoring staff performance
Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
Act as an internal quality control check for the project and participate in quality issue resolution
Oversee project scope and manage changes
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, required documentation and presentations to various audiences
Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards
Other duties as assigned
Travel will be 60 - 80% of time to various job site locations