Senior Project Manager

VSP Vision is a leading organization in the vision care industry, and they are seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee complex projects. The role involves managing project scope, resources, budgets, and schedules while ensuring effective communication with stakeholders and mentoring other project managers.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for identifying, planning and managing scope, resources, schedule, budget and risk required to meet goals of large complex projects
• Lead the development of cost-benefit analysis, return on investment forecasts, project proposals, project charters, risk analysis, project schedules, and ensure actual results are tracked for large complex projects
• Performs appropriate scope analysis and lessons learned
• Develops and manages project schedules
• Identifies and establishes stakeholders and appropriate project governance
• Identifies appropriate project team resources and ensures appropriate staff are secured
• Develops and manages project budgets
• Clearly communicates roles and expectations to project teams
• Escalate issues to stakeholders and project teams and recommend solutions
• Creates and delivers information at appropriate level for audience, including presentations and status updates
• Recognizes risk triggers and clearly communicates situation to project teams, sponsors, and stakeholders
• Regularly mentors and acts as a resource to other Project Managers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years leading all aspects of large complex projects
• 4+ years of experience with standard project management methodology, tools, and/or software packages
• Demonstrated ability as a core decision-maker showing balanced consideration of business issues
• Ability to drive results through informal authority, serve as a consultant to key business partners, and represent users and customers in every thought and interaction
• Ability to elicit cooperation from Senior Management and other departments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and analytical skills
• Proven ability to effectively understand and communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization
• Ability to identify, develop, and gather necessary resources to complete a project
• Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties