ePMO Spec

Roles & Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will bring a combination of strategic understanding, change management experience & exceptional communication & analytical skills together.
• Liaison with stakeholders such as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, Vendors, and End-users regarding project requirements.
• Manages project milestones to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, quality, and scope of project.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation according to the BD’s project management life cycle guidelines.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track the progress of the project including scope, critical success factors, deliverables, work breakdown structure, project schedule, budget, quality, resource plan, stakeholder management, and communications.
• Manage scope change requests and coordinate with the Project Owner for further action.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders and vendors for the seamless execution of projects.
• Measure project performance using appropriate project management tools.
• Perform risk management analysis to reduce project risks.
• Report and escalate risks to the management, as needed.
• Prepare project status reports in coordination with the other PMO members.

Experience Required

• 5 – 7 years of project management work experience using PMBOK guidelines.
• BS in business administration or project management with 6 years working in a global manufacturing company in FDA regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience in driving projects from initiation through closure.
• Has technical and practical knowledge of the core Program Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) concepts and principles (e.g., agile, work breakdown structure, waterfall planning).
• Skilled in establishing detailed scope, schedule, resources, and budget using standard project tools (MS Project/SharePoint/etc.)
• Experienced establishing Stakeholder management plans, Risk/issue management plans, Vendor management plans and Quality plans.
• Experienced establishing and following controls to manage scope change and reporting project schedule/budget performance.
• Experience managing Transportation projects in an ERP environment with a structured SDLC release cycle, with integration to external TMS/WMS applications.

Skills & Certifications

• Gains support by actively and consistently involving others.
• Has an awareness of the audience and cultural and ideological differences and knows how to engage them and have an impact on their decisions and behaviors.
• Capable of building a leadership presence that inspires project stakeholders and team members to achieve the project objectives.
• Proactive in driving creative resolutions to project issues and risk.
• Experienced in the techniques to work in a virtual/cross cultural meeting environment.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Able to work on multiple concurrent activities and prioritize personal workload and team-work load to optimize project delivery.
• Ability to lead effective meetings/workshops.
• Creating meeting objectives, agendas, and timely distribution of meeting minutes.
• Ability to manage meeting discussions to achieve meeting objectives and timeline.
• Ability to engage project team and stakeholder community to resolve issues and define risk mitigations.

Eligibilities & qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, Project, SharePoint.
• ACP, SCRUM Certification, PMP, PgMP, Prince II, or equivalent.
• Experience working with Transportation within the Integrated Supply Chain functional area involving ERP systems with associated release schedules.
• Has technical knowledge and communication proficiency to engage with external customers and suppliers.