Cleveland,Ohio,USA Posted: Thu, Aug 01 2024

• Project Leadership: Lead one or more complex projects in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, including directing third-party resources and virtual teams. Projects often impact multiple LOBs, may have executive sponsorship, and can span several years.
• Business Case Development: Support business case development, perform project registration/consolidation/prioritization, create funding plans, and administer project pipeline checkpoints to drive delivery and resolve bottlenecks.
• Scope and Deliverables Management: Define and manage project scope, changes, objectives, requirements, deliverables, and value propositions that support diverse business goals and interests.
• Project Planning: Develop integrated project plans, identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths, and track/report project milestones and status.
• Client Impact: Ensure potential impacts on external client experience are addressed in project solutions/plans.
• Resource Management: Estimate resources needed, track utilization, assess additional staff/vendor needs, manage on/off-boarding, and monitor vendor performance.
• Budget Management: Draft and submit project budget proposals, recommend budget changes, and conduct cost forecasting and tracking, including variance reporting.
• Issue and Risk Management: Identity, track, escalate, and resolve issue conflicts, perform impact analysis and prioritization, manage dependencies, and escalate risk with corrective actions.
• Project Standards Compliance: Tailor methods and metrics, administer configuration management/version control, adhere to project policies/standards, perform project assessments, coach/mentor teams, and manage deliverable reviews/signoffs.
• Communication: Lead communication planning, execution, and reporting with project team members and key stakeholders.
• Change Management: Support the development and implementation of change management plans, including communication and training.
• Knowledge Transfer: Manage documentation and knowledge transfer to “business as usual” functions, and conduct “lesson-learned” reviews.
• Vendor Management: Manage the execution of vendor contracts and ensure adherence to contract provisions.

• Education/Certifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or equivalent preferred.
• Experience:
  • 5+ years of project management experience required.
• Competencies and Skills:
  • Autonomous work with solid leadership competencies; ability to organize and lead others towards common outcomes and execution.
  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze and solve complex problems; initiative to plan and execute as assigned; meet project budget, schedule, scope, and risk targets.
  • Understanding of business models and project impacts on business strategy.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills; ability to effectively communicate project vision and impact on business strategy.
  • Assessment of team members’ strengths and developmental needs; proactive in seeking feedback and driving personal improvement.
  • Experience in risk and issue management; performing impact analysis and prioritization; and effective reporting of impact and status.
  • Desired experience with Cloud service provider migration work, including dependency management, business unit coordination, and facilitation of testing, remediation, and business acceptance.
  • Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.