Senior Project Manager

Job Responsibilities

Summary

Under general direction of a Portfolio Manager, the Sr Project Manager is responsible for the management of multiple related projects and/or large multi-country projects.

They direct Project Managers in monitoring cost, scheduling, and technical performance of component projects and operations, while working to ensure profitability and financial targets of the program. Generally, they are responsible for determining and coordinating the sharing of resources among their constituent projects to the overall benefit of the program.

They manage one or more project teams consisting of cross-functional team members, defines and communicates clear project deliverables and performance targets; they manage all aspects of customer relationships and ensure overall satisfaction to the contractual deliverable.

They are responsible for stakeholder management, particularly stakeholders external to the organization, and manage with the project team the completion of activities to assure quality, profitability, and timing targets of the program.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Accountable for profitability, timing, and quality of multiple related projects.
• Evaluate and completely understand contractual deliverables and obligations.
• Scope management: direct Project managers in building the project Work Breakdown Structure, to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
• Change management: develop Engineering Changes (ECs) with clear cost, delivery impact, and expiration date. Negotiate Engineering Changes (ECs) securing customer concurrence, in cost scope and delivery.
• Maintain timely budget updates based on scope of work changes, optimizing project execution improvements.
• Manage budget and given cost targets
• Time management (schedule): formulate a detailed execution-timing plan, including critical path timing, mitigation timing plans, with constant updating, improvement, and follow-up.
• Risk management: identify risk and opportunities and develop risk mitigation plans and actions plans to realize opportunities.
• Manage/coordinate the project team (people assigned to the project by the other departments)
• Team building and coaching: facilitate and develop a productive and cohesive project team, manage conflict resolution.
• Manage all customer communication including but not restricted to, phone conversation note's meeting minutes, documenting, and communicating all appropriate verbal communication, customer runoff documentation, cost information, Engineering Changes (ECs) content cost and schedule impact, customer timing reporting, open issues lists and actions.
• Escalation and communication with costumers at the level above the project manager.
• Integrate in the project team the activity of the Project Engineer, Supply Chain Leader, Site Manager, and other team members, for an effective management of the customer technical reviews, buyoffs, procurement process and site activities.
• Pursue customer satisfaction
• Manage accounts receivable totals related to project and minimize overdue.
• Monitor project activities for compliance to company policies and processes. Manage and maintain master project documentation or project binder in real time.

Do you have what it takes?

Knowledge Skills

• Multicounty projects experience
• Management of multi-national portfolios
• Multicultural teams' management
• Customer management
• Customer product knowledge
• Financial, economics, contract, legal and operational aspects projects and programs
• Project human resources management
• Project cost management
• Project management processes and methodologies
• Project management techniques and tools
• Project procurement management
• Project quality management
• Project risk management
• Project scope management
• Project time management
• Business process orientation skills
• Problem solving and decision-making methodology
• Project scheduling tools

Behavioral Competencies

• Experience with working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies
• Conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• React to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Flexible during times of change.
• Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
• Ability to drive cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Ability to bring project to successful completion.
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.
• Customer service.
• Communication and presentation skills; public speaking.
• Negotiation skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Qualifications

• Education:Bachelor's or MS degree is preferred
• Previous experiences: at least 5 years of related Project Management experience in the automotive business
• Languages: asecond language is highly appreciated.