Senior Business Project Manager - GTM

Perennial Resources International
Bernards, NJ
17 Feb 2025

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Senior Business Project Manager

General Position Overview

Contract (no 3rd party resumes please)

Position is Remote but will require some onsite (1x per month - Basking Ridge, NJ)Are you a dynamic and energetic project management expert that guides teams, hands-on, through the entire project from Concept through Go-to-Market (GTM) launch, including post-launch and transition-to-operations processes? Then we have a project for you to lead! The Senior Business Project Manager (SBPM) will be the day-to-day leader to drive our initiative to introduce new products and services related to a business opportunity the credit union has prioritized for 2023. We have an aggressive timeline to get what is needed in place in a 5-to-7-month timeframe. The position requires an overall understanding of financial services business processes, information & technology development processes, and organizational change management activities to assist teams with identifying what must be planned and performed to successfully take advantage of the opportunity. The SBPM will work closely with business leaders and key vendors to identify activities and deliverables required for:
  • Creating and executing the marketing strategy
  • Creating and modifying business processes to support the business opportunity
  • Coordinating changes to systems and applications to support new or changes business processes
  • Onboarding and integrating new vendors required to support the new business opportunity
  • Ensuring data and dashboards are in place to track and report performance of the new business opportunity
The most critical skill expected of the SBPM is the ability to communicate clearly and transparently with executive leaders, project sponsors, project team members and other key stakeholders to ensure they are informed of milestone progress points, schedule changes and impact analysis, risk and issue profile, and other project key performance indicators (KPIs). The SBPM also communicates to ensure people know what to do, why it needs to be done, and by when and lets everyone know what will trigger escalations to keep the project on track. The SBPM is expected to follow and enforce project management processes and best practice, and use Portfolio and Project Management tools, including Smartsheet, Confluence, and Jira.

ResponsibilitiesThe SBPM handles the full suite of project management activities for all elements of their assigned project(s), from planning through execution & GTM to closure. Project management core activities focus on leading and providing direction for planning, performing, and completing project tasks that collectively support the broad portfolio for a wide variety of business units. The SBPM ensures that project team members are delivering on commitments including on-time, within budget, and of exceptional quality. Core project management activities include: style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Scope Development: Though not responsible for the content of project scope, the SBPM develops and controls the project scope. They are required to participate in and sometimes lead business and system analysis tasks, learning about business processes and how applications support them, to assist with elicitation, tracking, and management of project scope content. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Cost, Budget, and Financial Management: The SBPM develops and tracks budgets and financial forecasts of projects, including development of a well-developed, on-going annualized run-cost forecast. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Schedule Development and Control: The SBPM develops and manages the overall project schedule in collaboration with delivery teams, business unit colleagues, and third-party product and service providers. The SBPM assists with work estimation and timeline forecasting, identifies dependencies, and ensures accountability and commitment of resources from the various workstream owners. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Risk and Issue Management: The SBPM collects and reports on project risks and issues. The SBPM works with business and technology leaders to ensure risks have strategies to exploit opportunities and reduce threats to the project and the business. They are responsible for ensuring ownership of any risks or issues identified. The SBPM aggressively tracks and pushes for strategy acceptance for risks and for resolution of issues. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Quality Management: The SBPM is responsible for both process and product/service quality. They ensure that the right work is done and that the work is done right, that the right people are involved evaluating product and service capabilities. This also includes ensuring individual project teams are developing superior quality business requirements, are performing adequate end-to-end integration and systems testing, and are executing sufficient quality assurance tasks including security assessments and performance testing where applicable. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Stakeholder and Communication Management: The SBPM is responsible for developing and maintaining project communication and collaboration areas and ensuring project work products and artifacts are secure, controlled, and archived as required. They also develop communication plans to inform and update various stakeholder groups, including third-party representatives, and modify and improve these plans throughout the project lifecycle. They are responsible for developing RACI charts, forming project governance committees, and organizing and facilitating governance committee and other project meetings, as defined in the communication plan and as required. They evaluate and address the reporting frequency and content needs of various stakeholders and ensure that communications to and from the project teams are clear, transparent, properly documented, secure, and tracked. style="font-size: 1rem;" style="font-size: 1rem;" Procurement and Resource Management: The SBPM develops resource allocation plans for their projects, negotiating with business and IT leaders to get the people, technology, and other resources required to deliver the project. The SBPM may participate in contract negotiation for third-party resources and manage the work of contractors and third- party providers required to deliver projects. Additionally, the SBPM is responsible for:
  • developing and nurturing relationships and communication channels with SVPs and VPs to understand their goals and plans under the context of new business and systems strategy
  • driving team effectiveness from diverse business units across the enterprise
  • aligning project and business service requests with technology needs and strategic direction
  • tracking action items as they arise, ensuring ownership and commitment to resolution and completion dates.
The SBPM may also lead special projects and perform non-routine tasks as required and as assigned by PMO (Project management offices) and leadership. The SBPM is expected to guide and mentor individuals from other business units in similar project management roles. This is to ensure project management best practices are shared and to accelerate improving project management skills and performance throughout. The SBPM also contributes to continuous improvement activities, especially related to the practice of program and project management

Qualifications Education and Experience
  • Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in portfolio, program and project management, and process improvement
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or similar degrees; MBA or similar advanced degree is a plus
  • Formal Project Management Certification – preferably PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)
  • Experience acquiring and implementing new business process and technologies throughout the full project lifecycle.
  • Proven record of success with business transformation initiatives and change management; a record of accomplishment as an agent of change in complex organizations.
  • Proven experience with project finance & budget development, as well as resource planning & management
Soft Skills
  • Project communication and reporting skills – ability to consistently provide project, resource, quality, risks, issues, decisions, and financial status reporting.
  • Analytical skills - highly analytical with experience in utilizing analytical approaches for project reporting; should have a detailed understanding of data analysis and data manipulation to inform and help leaders make decisions.
  • Problem solving skills - demonstrate the ability to lead multiple teams that identify key issues, gather data to investigate those issues, and develop actionable recommendations. Able to maintain point of view in the face of resistance.
  • Influencing skills – ability to influence others, some of whom may show initial resistance, to drive meaningful change results and be a contributing member of the project team
  • Time management skills – ability to prioritize tasks and balance competing priorities to make commitments; ability to be flexible in adapting to changes in priorities, assignments, and other interruptions, which may impact pre-established timelines and courses of action for completing projects and assignments
  • Change management skills - ability to closely partner with other members of the IT and business units on project prioritization and change control
  • Service transition skills – ability to document the tasks and activities to be performed to efficiently transition the project from acquisition and implementation phases to the operation & maintenance phase
  • Leadership skills - Able to lead multiple teams to work independently to meet commitments and balance competing priorities
  • General communication skills - superior oral presentation and written proficiency skills
  • Interpersonal skills - ability to operate in, and help develop, a highly collaborative environment
Tools, Processes, Methodologies and Frameworks
  • Advanced knowledge and extensive experience across a wide variety of project management methodologies and frameworks (Traditional, Agile, Scrum, Lean, hybrid, etc.) in various developmental and operational modes
  • Advanced knowledge of various requirements management, software development, and system testing lifecycles and best practices.
  • Basic knowledge of Lean Six Sigma or other quality management framework is preferred.
  • Expert-level knowledge and ability to configure and customize Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or similar Portfolio & Project Management (PPM) applications
  • Advanced knowledge and experience with data analysis and data manipulation tools
  • General knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Basic expertise with Microsoft Visio or similar flowcharting application
  • Basic expertise using video and online collaboration toolsets (Zoom, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Teams) to facilitate meetings and improve team collaboration
  • ID: #49268201
  • State: New Jersey Bernards 00000 Bernards USA
  • City: Bernards
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-02-17
  • Deadline: 2023-04-04
  • Category: Et cetera