Manager, Project Management
Job ID: 5996
Job Location: San Diego, CA
City: San Diego
State: CA
Country: United States
Job Category: Information Systems
The Active Network is looking for a well-organized, disciplined, accountable, committed, focused and self-motivated Manager of Project Management for our growing Global Project Management Office (GPMO). The Manager will lead a distributed team of Scrum Masters and Project Managers working on a diverse portfolio of high-profile projects. The successful candidate will have extensive project and program management experience, as well as experience leading and supervising a team of more than 8 project managers.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership, oversight and administrative supervision to a team of 8 to 10 project managers
- Oversee day-to-day activities of the project management function and run team meetings
- Monitor project deliverables and dependencies, and address issues as they arise
- Assess risks, develop issue mitigation plans and track issues to resolution
- Assign, prioritize and balance project work to align with the goals and objectives of the business
- Review and approve project schedules and work plans
- Assist team members in their duties, tasks, responsibilities and functions
- Gather status metrics, lessons learned and retrospectives data
- Report program/portfolio status to senior executives
- Create, mature and enforce GPMO standards, best practices
- Recruit, coach, develop and support GPMO resources
- Act as the communication hub between and among projects managers and other functions
- Drive the completion of projects and efforts
- Support system deployment activities
- Set yearly performance goals and conduct reviews
- Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration or related major
- Minimum 10 years of project/program management experience, preferably in new product development
- Minimum 2 years supervising a team of 8 or more project managers
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Expert knowledge of both traditional/waterfall and agile software development methodologies
- Experience with distributed teams and the utilization of near or offshore development resources
- Accustomed to delivering projects and products in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to lead without formal authority
- Detail-oriented with high personal standards
- Strong work ethic, commitment, persistence and determination
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Out of state travel could be required on a quarterly basis. Relocation and immigration sponsorship support is not available for this position.
This is an exciting fast paced environment! For your hard work, you will be rewarded with an offer that will include a competitive base salary and comprehensive benefits package, 401k match, paid time off, and, a great and fun working environment.
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