Job Description:
The role of the Project Manager is a critical position within the Medline Project Management Office (PMO). This role requires vast experience leading large projects/programs of work within complex and fast-paced organizations, using varying delivery models (waterfall, Agile/scrum, etc.). Candidates should possess exceptional communication skills and be well-versed in partnering with our internal business sponsors at an executive level. In addition, it is expected that Project Managers contribute to the health and strategy of the broader PMO supporting in optimizing delivery methods and ultimately increasing value and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in Medline project management practices, including work intake (scoping/risk assessment) and all PMO milestone activities
- Provide leadership, coaching and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle, and confer with project staff to outline work plan
- Establish work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project personnel
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
- Perform risk assessment, and implement mitigation plans
- Establish and track spend and costs for all aspects of managed projects.
- Ensure that project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives and business value is realized.
- Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
- Track critical project metrics (depending on delivery methodology).
- Continuously benchmark project management and team performance to help leadership identify gaps and address needs
Required skills:
- Experience leading and managing cross functional & globally distributed teams to deliver IT projects from start-end for 8+ years
- Experience of managing enterprise level services/systems integration projects.
- Experience in preparing and tracking project plans and/or working with leading work management tools like JIRA
- Clear understanding of agile values and hands on experience in using Agile practices to deliver IT projects
- Strong Vendor Management skills with managing SOWs, timesheets, invoicing, estimations, reviews, deliverables etc.
- Should have excellent written and oral communication skills and should be able to provide leadership by example
- Ability to quickly grasp Business, functional and technical concepts/ideas
- All project management essentials - managing : Issue, Risk, Escalation, stakeholders , communications, P&L, reporting
- Ability to negotiate, take ownership & responsibility and be assertive
