Sr Project Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Why GMF Enterprise Project Management Office?

Are you ready to make a significant impact on our company's future? Joining the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) offers you the unique opportunity to actively support our most important strategic enterprise-level projects. As a leader on the project delivery team, you'll partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams delivering innovative new products and solutions that shape our company's direction and go beyond the vehicle to deepen our relationship with customers. Your contributions will help drive meaningful change and create lasting value for the business, our customers, and your own professional growth.

At GM Financial, and in the EPMO, our team members define and shape our culture - an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work - we thrive. Therefore, if you enjoy building relationships, providing a first-class customer experience for stakeholders, and being part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced project environment, this role may be a perfect match for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

About the role:

The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for managing the project management lifecycle for the organization's most complex, cross-functional enterprise projects designed to support GM and GMF in making strides towards achieving our strategic priorities. These projects often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. This individual will partner with others across the enterprise to ensure consistent application of the GPPM (Global Project Portfolio Management) processes and procedures, and will contribute to EPMO initiatives.

In this role you will:

• Serves as a project manager for high-priority projects, applying the enterprise GPPM (Global Project Portfolio Management) processes and procedures.
• Identifies and assembles the appropriate blend of resources to meet project needs and requirements.
• Fosters and champions an environment that promotes trust, self-development, continuous improvement, innovation and quality outcomes.
• Ensures a consistent level of quality, accuracy, compliance to GPPM standards, state and federal regulations, and internal controls.
• Leads the development of project requirements and scope; establishes appropriate metrics for measuring successful delivery of the projects.
• Engages with project teams, business partners and stakeholders frequently on the status of key initiatives with respect to scope, schedule, cost, and resources; presents RAID logs.
• Coaches and counsels members of cross-functional teams to accomplish project goals, meet deadlines, and resolve technical/operational issues.
• Administers the project change process when needed, formulating contingency plans to address schedule revisions, risks, costs, and scope.
• Supports reporting needs of the PMO.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends, practices, techniques and emerging technologies related to the project management discipline.
• Captures and distributes meeting minutes highlighting decisions, action items, issues, risks, and key discussion topics as needed.

• Proven experience and knowledge of the discipline of project management including common principles, methodologies and tools used by practitioners
• Proficient in process improvement and development practices
• Experience with business case preparation, cost benefit analysis and project execution
• Advanced knowledge and experience with PPM software tool; Planview experience preferred
• Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to tailor the message based on the audience
• Interpersonal skills necessary to work well with others and collaborate with other stakeholders in the organization
• Strong problem solving, multi-tasking and decision making abilities
• Detail oriented
• Proven ability and experience navigating competing priorities
• Servant leadership skills and ability to learn new skills quickly
• Skilled at producing polished reports using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and/or PPM software
• Ability to plan, execute and improve work processes to ensure achievement of business objectives
• Proactively achieves goals and objectives and applies critical thinking skills in day-to-day problems and solutions
• Ability to demonstrate integrity while successfully managing work demands and pressure
• Continually pursues personal development

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent related work experience required
• 4+ years experience in project management role working on large and/or complex projects required

• Project Management Certification (PMP, PgMP, Agile, etc.) preferred
• Agile/Scrum Certifications (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, etc.) preferred