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