Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple, interconnected projects and programs to ensure mutual benefit and alignment with overall C&T and Factset objectives.
• Establish and lead stakeholder review cadence of key strategic initiatives to highlight progress, foster teaming, identify risks, issues, and concerns and drive resolution.
• Work with teams on principles, tools, and best practices of program and project management.
• Develop metrics to measure, monitor, and report progress of programs and strategic initiatives.
• Identify areas for continual improvement in process and execution.
• Monitor project resource demand and capacity, highlighting areas of concern.
• Communicate goals, roles, responsibilities and desired outcomes to cross-functional project teams to gain buy-in and delivery to project schedules
• Support Content & Technology division portfolio activities, including Targetprocess PPM governance, demand management, project and program management best practices; support  operations related projects/initiatives.
• Report to key executive sponsors, stakeholders and team members on program/project status, progress, and risk including continually managing project expectations, 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5-10 years project and program leadership experience, with emphasis in visible enterprise technology programs that include senior stakeholders. Ability to manage remotely a must.
• Independent leader who can work effectively on their own and within a team, integrate knowledge and build internal networks for success.
• Strong background in project methodologies including agile, waterfall and hybrid. 
• Strongly prefer experience involving planning, task management, collaboration and reporting/analytics in Targetprocess and Jira.
• Apply best practices in program and project management methods, associated tools & techniques in a hybrid (waterfall/agile) program environment.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with acute attention to detail, accuracy and accountability balanced with sound business judgment.
• Skilled in MS Office, Teams and Project toolsets to create meaningful management information, presentations, reports, etc.  Confident in use and understanding of broad range of enterprise tools. Mural, other visualization tools and advanced Excel a plus.
• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and experience in process definition and mapping
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional people skills - Ability to build strong relationships and rapport and work with people at all levels to understand and solve problems; overcome obstacles
• Work efficiently and effectively to meet desired deadlines.