Transportation Technology Project Manager

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Job Description:

Summary

The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and delivery of one or more complex projects. Must have advanced expertise in project management methodologies and apply them rigorously in alignment with standards defined by the Ryder PMO. This role involves partnering with business leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure projects meet objectives, timelines, and budgets.

The Sr. Project Manager will:

• Oversee project scope, schedules, budgets, and resources for multiple initiatives.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams, ensuring adherence to Ryder PMO standards.
• Report project progress, risks, and trends to all stakeholders, including executive leadership.
• Identify early warning signs, escalate issues to executive steering committee members, and facilitate timely decision-making.
• Document decisions and communicate direction clearly to the project team.
• Mentor and support other project managers when needed.

Travel may be required based on project needs.

Essential Functions

• Manage project plan, track dependencies, address constraints, resolve resource conflicts, assess impacts to plan, obtain estimates to complete forecast use of funds, ensure adherence to SDLC, report progress against plan.
• Develop and execute project communications plan, facilitate team meetings, participate in key meetings that directly or indirectly impact the project, keep project stakeholders informed, prepare for and conduct executive steering committee meetings.
• Gather content from respective project team members to complete interim and final deliverables. Present deliverables required at respective tollgates throughout the project live cycle. Obtain sign-off and approvals to proceed for stakeholders. Maintain project team repository of deliverables, reference materials and documentation. Prepare change requests as agreed to by project team and obtain signatures from project owner and sponsor.
• Prepare weekly status reports, track open issues, update risks (probability, severity and impact) and mitigation plans. Participate in PMO meetings with other Project Managers to identify potential dependencies or constraints.
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, and report monthly accruals.

Additional Responsibilities

• Monitor and report to IT and process/function owner on the status of multiple concurrent project efforts.
• Provide analytical expertise within an assigned business unit/area in the analysis, design and development of business applications.
• Develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT departments to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts.
• Evaluate application software packages and make recommendations to management.
• Participate with other IT members, customers and stake holders in new product reviews, tests and pilots.
• Collect and analyze business requirements for large, multi-functional projects.
• Lead project teams through feasibility studies, translating requirements into an appropriate design.
• Foster and maintain good relationships with customers and IT colleagues to meet expected customer service levels.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

• Leadership skills that engage multi-discipline work teams to respond to business needs
• Strong project management skills with experience in organizing, planning and executing large-scale projects from vision to implementation involving internal personnel, contractors and vendors
• Must possess excellent human resource management skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and conceptual skills
• Ability to work on cross-functional project teams and foster team commitment to tasks
• Must have the ability to manage support teams in a matrix environment, be pro-active with a continuous improvement mind set, motivate and generate results through influence
• Strong oral, interpersonal and written communications skills with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms
• Must be capable of providing cross-functional teams briefing as needed
• Ability to create and maintain professional relationships within all levels of the organization (peers, work groups, customers, supervisors)
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