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Lead Project Manager
AdaptavistRemote (USA), United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 May 2023
About the role
Working at Adaptavist
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
About Us
Adaptavist’s mission is to help organizations embrace the right tools, processes, and culture to make transformation their competitive advantage. And it all starts with you.
Working at Adaptavist is unlike any other job you’ve ever had. We trust you from day one. We encourage curiosity. We champion diversity. We’re never afraid to try something new.
Excited yet?
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that you can now fit work around your life, instead of trying to fit your life around work. You can even take as much vacation as you want. Yes, really!
As part of The Adaptavist Group, we make up a family of brands that combine people, processes, and technology to make businesses better. Offering trusted consultancy, app development, training, hosting, and licensing, we believe our unique and open culture underpins our status as the go-to partner of choice within the Atlassian Ecosystem.
Some of our benefits in the US include:
- Unlimited paid vacation - Canada Life Care including Life Insurance, Healthcare and Dental Care- RRSP matching up to 4%- Flexible working- Udemy online learning- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Employee assistance programme- Volunteer days- Free online streaming service subscription
About the team
You will be joining the one of the Project Management teams at Adaptavist and working alongside various internal cross functional teams within the business. This is a North American team with members based in Canada and the US. This team has been experiencing constant growth and development, which has led us to the decision to bring on an additional Team Lead!
About the role
As the Lead Project Manager you will lead on planning, initiation, and management of a variety of projects. The role will proactively resolve project management issues in relation to cost, scope, timelines and quality where necessary. You will lead and manage a team of project managers and provide guidance and support to direct reports and teams with regards to project management activities. The Lead Project Manager will also act as a conduit between the delivery team and the client to ensure successful completion of work for all parties.
The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.
We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, and Aha!
We make change happen. From anywhere.
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.
About Us
Adaptavist’s mission is to help organizations embrace the right tools, processes, and culture to make transformation their competitive advantage. And it all starts with you.
Working at Adaptavist is unlike any other job you’ve ever had. We trust you from day one. We encourage curiosity. We champion diversity. We’re never afraid to try something new.
Excited yet?
Our flexible, remote-first way of working means that you can now fit work around your life, instead of trying to fit your life around work. You can even take as much vacation as you want. Yes, really!
As part of The Adaptavist Group, we make up a family of brands that combine people, processes, and technology to make businesses better. Offering trusted consultancy, app development, training, hosting, and licensing, we believe our unique and open culture underpins our status as the go-to partner of choice within the Atlassian Ecosystem.
Some of our benefits in the US include:
- Unlimited paid vacation - Canada Life Care including Life Insurance, Healthcare and Dental Care- RRSP matching up to 4%- Flexible working- Udemy online learning- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave- Employee assistance programme- Volunteer days- Free online streaming service subscription
About the team
You will be joining the one of the Project Management teams at Adaptavist and working alongside various internal cross functional teams within the business. This is a North American team with members based in Canada and the US. This team has been experiencing constant growth and development, which has led us to the decision to bring on an additional Team Lead!
About the role
As the Lead Project Manager you will lead on planning, initiation, and management of a variety of projects. The role will proactively resolve project management issues in relation to cost, scope, timelines and quality where necessary. You will lead and manage a team of project managers and provide guidance and support to direct reports and teams with regards to project management activities. The Lead Project Manager will also act as a conduit between the delivery team and the client to ensure successful completion of work for all parties.
What you'll be doing
- Manage, coach and mentor a team of project managers
- Delegate authority to match responsibility and hold the team accountable for agreed upon commitments
- Address gaps in team expertise and skill set
- Support employee in taking independent action, providing coaching along the way
- Delivery Programme reports to the Head of Consulting on all projects regarding overall status and budgets
- Track invoicing status of projects
- Manage large (budget or scope), highly complex (functionality, specs, stakeholders), diverse or strategic projects that impact the organization, or a client as a whole
- Develop corporate policies and standards for project management and delivery
- Advise senior management on organization-wide quality issues and challenges
- Develop organization-wide plans to solve issues of quality
- Manage, control and monitor the nature of project information and communication directives
- Provide guidance on the translation of the strategic goals of multiple projects into tactical and operational objectives
- Develop the communication strategy for the organisation
- Develop strategies for researching and obtaining information that is difficult to collect
- Plan, allocate, and mobilise resources (human, physical, information and financial resources) to achieve organisational goals and ensure the efficient and appropriate use of resources
- Identify resourcing needs to effectively support current initiatives, services and offerings
- Communicate expectations and objectives of resource usage, providing ongoing feedback, and addressing shortcomings
What we're looking for
- Experience managing a team or mentoring technical professionals
- Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills working with clients and colleagues
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing skills, interacting appropriately with technical and business resources
- Capable of self-organising and prioritisin
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