PRIMARY PURPOSE
Provides project management expertise and leads key streams on strategic Divisional projects working across functional teams. Manages different projects in the program portfolio, and spans projects in the planning phase, delivery, integration with operations, and post-handover support.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Plans, manages, executes, monitors, and closes assigned projects. Defines project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria in collaboration with project sponsors, stakeholders, and team members. This includes delivering projects in collaboration with various departments across the enterprise, in alignment with required operational teams, divisional strategy and departmental objectives.
Leads the strategic planning of the assigned projects, creating business cases/justifications and detailed project plans, determining success objectives and measurements, determining/adjusting the budget, resources, and stakeholders, preparing scope of work outlines, setting up the project timelines, workback schedule and review plan.
Identifies new opportunities and/or operational efficiencies based on data driven insights.
Analyzes and solves business problems by developing insightful, practical, and sustainable solutions to complex problem statements.
Manages assigned project specific resources, budget, schedule, quality, issues, and changes using best practices and standards as required and depending on project size and scope. Identifies risks and collaborates to remove program roadblocks and ensures projects adhere to corporate standards and policy requirements.
Supports strategic discussions and provides recommendations at various levels by presenting and reporting on project status, progress, issues / risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and key project metrics to project sponsors, stakeholders, team members, and senior leadership team on a regular basis. Delivers presentations, suggestions and recommendations to the senior leadership team on risk management and project delivery.
Coordinates and facilitates workshops and project meetings to evolve and elevate the project delivery. Interacts with business leaders to analyze and define the business policies and processes.
Manages cross-functional project teams, developing and maintaining a respectful and productive relationship with all stakeholders across the enterprise and ensures alignment across the stakeholders to move the project forward. Coordinates internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of the project.
Ensures project deliverables meet the requirements and expectations of the project sponsors and internal and external stakeholders.
Provides coaching to the project team to build rigor and best practices into project execution.
Conducts project closure activities, such as lessons learned, documentation, handover, etc.
