Project Manager

Position Summary The Project Manager is responsible for managing the planning, execution, and delivery of various projects within the organization, ensuring they align with strategic goals and meet stakeholder expectations. They make sure that all project milestones are completed to specification, within an established scope, time frame, and budget. They oversee project documentation, identify and mitigate risks/issues, monitor progress, keep team members motivated and on track, resolve conflicts to ensure smooth project progression, and facilitate stakeholder communication between teams and throughout the organization. The role drives scalable process improvements and innovations within the designated business, leading strategic initiatives and change management. What will your job entail? Job Responsibilities: • Applies expertise on program and project management disciplines • Utilizes available Project Management tools and techniques, favoring Velocity’s PMO templates and PMP best practices • Drives scalable and sustainable process improvements, innovation, and automation • Meets with PMO leadership and key stakeholders to understand and define the vision, scope and business objectives of project work and establishes the budget and expected return on investment • Creates and refines business cases, charters, and other project artifacts to meet PMO standards • Identifies and manages project resources and other key stakeholders; Cultivates stakeholder trust • Confirms all needed contracts meet project requirements and are fully executed • Makes certain that compliance activities and risks have appropriate review and approvals • Elicits and validates the business needs of key stakeholders, be they customers, end users or managing leadership to refine the scope and deliverable definitions • Develops a detailed project plan listing milestones, outlining tasks, assigning resources, highlighting dependencies and creating the schedule • Confirms team member capacity and resources to complete all required activities per the schedule • Oversees documentation standards and storage • Identifies risks and develops mitigation strategies to monitor and manage risks • Monitors project delivery and ensures that milestones are achieved on schedule • Controls the project scope and follows change control processes • Tracks project expenses for adherence to financial constraints • Monitors project benefits realized compared to projections • Leads project kick-off calls, core team meetings, stakeholder status update meetings, and other meetings as requested. E-mails meeting materials and/or meeting notes before and/or after meetings • Communicates regular written updates on project progress, issues, and risks to different stakeholder groups and maintains the logs • Ensures that cross-functional teams are aligned and coordinate effectively to achieve project goals • Uses interpersonal and facilitation skills for brainstorming, group…