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Job Overview

Position Schedule: Full-Time

Overview:
Do you enjoy leading projects? Do you want to lead projects that are impactful to firm planning and strategy execution? Do you have experience in product or project management? The Project Leader in Firm Planning and Strategic Execution provides a trusted advisor working with leaders and teams, to execute independent initiatives or epics within a Portfolio of work or individual project. This includes advising on working methodology, and driving accountability/transparency, and team effectiveness to deliver the most value to clients, colleagues, and communities, most quickly.

• Lead medium to large projects simultaneously, with a medium to high degree of risk, visibility and urgency within a functional area or at times spanning multiple areas, divisions or outside vendors. Lead project coordinators and/or project team members in completion of medium to large scope projects.
• Provide leadership, development and mentoring to team through modeling of best practices and providing timely feedback.
• Responsible for allocating, onboarding, assigning and oversight of project resources.
• Ability to rapidly learn about a new area in order to lead a project effectively.
• Drive and recommend improvements in project management and industry "best in class" practices within the firm.
• Drive business efforts. This role is the key business contact on the project.
• Identify major and detailed project tasks, critical path, contentions and resources to manage the tasks across multiple sub-projects.
• Ensure project schedule, scope and quality objectives are met by monitoring, using metrics and controls to measure progress, taking corrective action and escalating issues when necessary. Assess trade-offs to scope using cost / benefit analysis and make recommendations to senior leaders.
• Work with other leaders and senior leadership to obtain the necessary resources to achieve project objectives. Drive the resolution of resource issues/risks.
• Plan, identify, analyze and resolve project issues and risks. Determine and execute prevention and mitigation strategies, as appropriate.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings, communicate progress and develop solutions to meet project goals. This may be related to a large project with multiple sub-projects.
• Provide timely communication of relevant data to senior leadership for decision making. Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across multiple areas, divisions, outside vendors and project leaders/teams who are working on sub-projects within a project.
• Lead vendor selection in a project with a large number of vendors. Manage vendor relationship throughout the life of the project.

• Bachelor's degree is required or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years of project management or product management experience leading division level complex projects/products is required, with the ability of creating, monitoring, and interpreting product / project performance metrics through the entire development lifecycles.
• Possess a working knowledge of project and product management life cycles. Has the ability to utilize and decipher which method to use and when to use Agile or Waterfall Methodologies.
• 3 - 5 years of industry or position-related experience.
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills; effectively communicates with project team, other project leaders, multiple areas, divisions and outside vendors. Incorporates effective listening and collaboration skills.
• Ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve elements that can impact the entire project lifecycle.
• Strong problem-solving skills - know when to escalate, ability to identify alternatives, assist in analysis and resolution of issues and provide recommendations.
• Experience with PPM tools such as Clarity, Jira, and/or Aha is required.

• MBA or graduate degree preferred.
• Project Management certification (PMP, SAFe and/or Company Specific Certifications) preferred within 2 years.
• Previous leadership experience preferred.