Senior Project Manager

• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations.
• Strong experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal with technical and non-technical team members, at all levels of management.

Responsibilities

• Defines the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested project work.
• Owns the full project lifecycle which entails successful project delivery including full implementation from initiation to deployment for one large and complex project or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Manages all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Participates in establishing practices, templates, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of the project.
• Works in collaboration with Team Leads to procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes.
• Demonstrates a functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices.
• Understands interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Manages project scope and changes with all stakeholders and teams on the ground effectively.
• Acts as an internal quality control check for the project.
• Manages a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
• Reports on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
• Determines the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Provides status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Defines success criteria and disseminates them to the involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle.
• Identifies and develops trusted adviser relationships with project stakeholders and sponsors.
• Delivers appropriate, consistent and effective executive level communication throughout the project life cycle.
• Develops and maintains a good understanding of BETs stakeholder landscape, interactions and linkages across the organization and its potential future movement.
• Builds and maintain positive relationships with internal peers and other team members, in ways that help to deliver the company strategy as a whole.
• Develops a position as a leader among one or more external networks and use this to maximise BET Software’s influence and credibility.