Sr. Project Manager - Onsite

Exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers & business partners through superior service, simple processes, and effective communications.

We deliver on this mission by empowering our employees by encouraging and recognizing superior performance and innovative solutions, by promoting teamwork and divisional cooperation.
 

Principal Duties

• Accountable for the project team, resources and the success or failure of the project against Scope, Schedule, and Budget
• Responsible for leading the planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing of assigned projects.
• Identifies and tracks key project milestones (base-lining critical path).
• Works with project stakeholders and management to determine necessary skill sets and assemble the project team based on project scope and expectations, including, as necessary, cross-department and outsourcing coordination.
• Negotiates and influences cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the course of the project life cycle.
• Pro-actively anticipates project risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints and ensures adequate response strategies are put in place to ensure delivery is not compromised. Tracks, manages, and reports as required.
• Ensures change control procedures and processes are efficiently and effectively used to maintain control of scope, resources, schedule, and cost.

Education and Experience Requirements  

• 5-7 years of experience in related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field is preferred.
• PMI PMP Certification desired.
• Previous mortgage banking experience a plus.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops as a project lifecycle management and defect tracking tool a plus.
• Experience with Smartsheet as a project management tool for schedules, resource management a plus.
• Relevant IT work experience working in distributed and heterogenous computing environments comprised of both packaged and custom applications
• IT experience in IT procurement, technology software development, software engineering, QA, business systems analysis, user acceptance testing and post-production support
• Knowledge of data center operations, telecommunications, network engineering, data center applications, client/server computing, and production operations support a plus.

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability Requirements  

• Demonstrates experience in a variety of the field's concepts and practices such as:
  • Communication skills (verbal and written, in person and virtual, technical, and business).
  • Presentation skills (in person and virtual).
  • Facilitation skills (in person and virtual).
  • Leadership ability (cross functional teams including IT and Business members).
  • Strategic and business mindset.
  • Team building.
  • Conflict management/resolution.
  • Calmness under stress, pressure, or ambiguity.
  • Comfort level and confidence working with senior leadership and decision makers.
• Fully understands various software development lifecycle methodologies and possesses actual experience with real world application of differing project management approaches.
• Excellent reasoning and research skills; the ability to see the “big picture” and manage the details.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple project assignments in parallel of varying size and complexity.

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities.  Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

Additional Information:

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requirements, it in no way implies/states that these are the only job responsibilities. Management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties and request other duties, as necessary.

All employees are required to have smart phones that meet Company security standards with the ability to install apps such as Okta Verify and Microsoft Authenticator. Employment will be contingent on this requirement.

Company Benefits:

Newrez is a great place to work but we are only as strong as our greatest asset, our employees, so we believe in rewarding them!

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Health Savings Account with employer contribution

• 401(k) Retirement plan with employer match

• Paid