Job Summary:

Senior Project Managers drive setup, execution, and closeout of Witham IS projects of all scales. They serve as the consolidated point of accountability, communication, and coordination for all activity within a given project. Senior Project Managers drive success projects of varying types and levels of complexity, if need be by engaging and organizing the effort of subject matter experts. Senior Project Managers optimize the type, extent, and formality of controls required to achieve project success efficiently. Senior Project Managers are charged with driving consistency in the way that projects are established, tracked and executed in the Witham IS environment. Senior Project Managers collaborate actively with all project stakeholders, resource managers, and task owners to ensure that:

• Project objectives are well-formed, realistic, meet stakeholder expectations, and are adequately socialized

• Projects have defined start and finish dates and—where appropriate—defined milestones

• Key project constraints are identified, managed, and updated

• Project budgets and resourcing are sufficient to deliver project objectives within agreed time frames and recognized constraints

• Project plans or work approaches (e.g. scrum) are adequate to achieve agreed results

• Project status information remains entirely transparent and is available in real time within the project portfolio

• Project risks are actively managed throughout the course of the project

• Project stakeholders and team members are kept abreast of project progress and issues

• Project results are consistently reviewed for continual improvement purposes

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related field, or the equivalent in other experience and/or certification. 
• PMI or similar certification, Scrum Master Certification; degree in project management, or business with a concentration in project management may be accepted in lieu of certification, management experience will also meet the requirement.
• Obtaining the PMP certification is something we would like for the person to obtain once hired. 
• Proficiency with stakeholder management, service improvement, and requirements engineering/analysis best practices. 
• Experience using common project and portfolio management platforms such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Primavera, ServiceNow, etc. Familiarity with service management processes relevant to project management: Release Management, Change Management, Transition Planning and Support, Continual Service Improvement, etc.
• At least 3 years of experience managing complex projects. 
• Experience managing software deployment/upgrade projects (define, design, develop, deploy and support).