Manager, Project Management

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments – creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them.

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Manager, Project Management

Profile

Responsible for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing a range of projects and change requests within the portfolio with the goal of allocating resources to the activities that will align to the corresponding business objectives.

The portfolio manager also provides advice, assistance, and leadership to improve the quality of project outcome for PMs that are part of his/her department.

He/she may also manage one or more strategic initiatives within agreed parameters of cost, times, and quality to meet identified business needs.

Has in depth expertise in all Project Management knowledge areas. Solves complex problems and brings a new perspective to existing procedures based on business acumen in:(*) Human Resources Payroll Solutions, Learning Solutions and FSA/HSA (Flex Spending/Benefit Wallet).

Key Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and delivers complex programs prioritized in alignment with client’s expectations and business needs. Projects may include multiple disciplines and/or significant business process re-engineering efforts.
• Provides steady leadership in the face of uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines common to a rapidly growing company with an evolving business model.
• Manages people for own department, programs or projects involving cross-functional teams focused on delivery into a steady state.
• Organizes project and/or program activities that may require interdepartmental meetings and communication ensuring completion of the program/project on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Directs the activities of project support staff, project managers, and sub-contractors and is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources are allocated and maintained to facilitate the overall achievement of portfolio business outcomes.
• Assigns and monitors work of project management personnel, providing support and interpretation of instructions/objectives.
• Manages and coordinates priorities between projects or within a program as well as adherence to Change Management processes.
• Leads and communicates portfolio performance metrics such as project overall health, schedule, budget, risks, and outcome realization; establishes clear stakeholder expectations, roles and responsibilities.
• Develops and maintains reporting procedures and monitor performance in portfolio control activities.
• Supports pre-sales and solutioning teams providing time and effort estimates as well as transition methodology and approach recommendations.

Skills

• Must have demonstrated leadership ability, business acumen, and industry knowledge
• Proven ability to build and lead integrated teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple sites
• Adept at helping team members harness and develop strengths in pursuit of successful program outcomes
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations
• Strong analytical and financial skills
• Ability to innovate under new and/or changing conditions
• Proven problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Effective consultative and influencing approach
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels
• Ability to succeed in a dynamic matrix organization
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
• Cultural adaptability
• Virtual and remote team leadership capability
• Flexibility and responsiveness to input

Experience

• +7 years of project management experience including large-scale complex programs or equivalent.
• Experience managing and providing leadership to staff.
• Experience in Portfolio Management preferred but not required.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree preferred but not required
• PMP Certification preferred but not required

The Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act requires employers to disclose the following information. If the successful applicant will be required to perform work from a physical site outside Colorado, the following information may not apply. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. In addition to base pay, this position, based on business need, may be eligible for a bonus or incentive. In addition, Conduent provides a variety of benefits to employees including health insurance coverage, voluntary dental and vision programs, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) or vacation or sick time. For Colorado considerations only the estimated salary range is $106,260-$138,000

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