Sr. Project Manager; PMO

Be the first of your friends to declare, “I love where I work!” and actually mean it. Have fun and work hard with some of the best and brightest in the market research industry. NPD is one of the nation’s leading market research providers in the world. We offer competitive market research and intelligence to our customers and many of the world’s largest companies.

In addition, NPD offers a career filled with innovation and opportunity to the forward-thinking problem solvers who join our family.

About You:

You’re a passionate, dynamic, and highly motivated individual who’s looking for an opportunity to have an impact on some of the most well-known companies in the world. If you enjoy working with Technology and enjoy working through a challenge, this job is for you!

The role of the Director, Information Technology Project Management is to lead, plan, execute and finalize Software Development projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes coordinating the efforts of team members across multiple departments in order to deliver projects according to plan.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead a team of project managers.

• Direct and manage projects from beginning to end.

• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals.

• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.

• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.

• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.

• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members. Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.

• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

• Track project milestones and deliverables.

• Develop and deliver progress reports, requirements documentation, and presentations.

• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.

• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.

• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.

• Minimum of 7 years project management experience or an equivalent combination of project management experience, development or product management experience.

• Proven success managing resources across multiple projects with varying prioritization, visibility and locations.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and develop a team.

• Ability to influence others and operate effectively in a matrix organization.

• Experience working with other departments to define the scope and goals of projects.

• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to communicate between technical and non-technical personnel.

• Candidate must be able to work unsupervised; have the ability to prioritize tasks; be logical, organized and work well with others in a stressful support environment.

• Candidate must be able to manage timely, effective response to customer needs and effectively communicate project status as requested and required.

• Exceptional communication skills and proven experience in writing clear and concise functional specification documents (samples preferred).

• Ability to conscientiously manage and follow up on multiple concurrent tasks, requests and projects on tight deadlines.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Extreme attention to detail.

• Proven experience with project management procedures and methodology, especially requirements management and schedule management.

• Capability to analyze data using advanced Excel functionality.

• College degree in related field.

• PMP and Lean Six Sigma a bonus.

• Strong presentation skills with a high comfort level presenting to large groups and…