Director, Project Management

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Profile Summary:

This position will be primarily responsible to drive programs and projects and directly manage and mentor a project management staff providing management, oversight and planning support for a strategic portfolio (up to $25M). Responsible for change management leadership, practice improvements, and the adoption of multiple delivery methodologies. Will partner with business and technology to drive strategic efforts and initiatives. Programs and projects will contain significant complexity, and significant risk, a substantial number of resources, and complex organizational change issues. Responsible for performance management, strategic goal setting, promoting training journeys, growing skills and talent, and practice development. This position will have resource management responsibilities for a team of managers and/or program/project managers. 

Profile Description:

• Responsible for  leading, developing and maintaining program/project strategies to support business objectives
• Drive execution and achievement of milestones in highly matrixed organization
• Address business challenges by bridging the gap between strategy and execution.
• Identify scalable solutions designed to reduce the complexities. 
• Responsible for the financial management of respective programs/projects.  
• Partners with Finance to support and provide insight to leadership on portfolio and/or program financials and forecast; understands what is driving the costs and what is needed to achieve desired outcomes across a portfolio of initiatives.
• Effective Vendor Management including being able to manage effectively the sourcing process within context of the role, managing their deliverables, understanding dependencies both for individual vendors and between multiple vendors, managing risk mitigation and understanding where the vendor supports a critical path item
• Stakeholder focused
• Expert knowledge and understanding of project management best practices, principles, project lifecycles, and various delivery methodologies.
• Develop and deliver compelling fact-based stories and recommendations in written and presentation form while teaching and coaching others.
• Drive complex situations to develop strategic, concise plans of action that help business areas achieve defined goals.
• Hands-on and results driven leader with a proven ability to work collaboratively and effectively across organizations and cross functional teams 
• Conduct performance management reviews and nurtures the talent within the team
• Provide team opportunities for skill development, career advancement and succession planning; provides open and honest feedback to aid in the development of talent.
• Foster an environment and culture that appropriately balances the “art” and “science” of project delivery across various methodologies while building deep bench strength and growth opportunities.
• Remove barriers for team and organization no matter how difficult; identify and raise awareness on issues that need to be addressed, provide an opinion and recommendation on a path forward.
• Directs the coordination and management of project manager resources

Knowledge & Experience:

• Innovative and strategic thought l