Senior Project Manager recruitment

Principal Accountabilities:

•  Manages multiple market research and development projects across front and back-office teams.

•  Ensures the execution and delivery of projects and production activities are within scope, on time, on budget and high quality.

•  Maintains communication across global cross-functional teams.

•  Responsible for creating detailed project planning documents, maintaining updates based on progress and approved changes.

•  Identifies internal and external resources required to deliver the scope and creates assignments to specific tasks.

•  Assists in the hiring and management of local executive interviewers and vendors.

•  Identifies resource contention and escalates when appropriate with recommendations for corrective action.

•  Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify and implement firm-wide best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

•  Provides status reports to project team and senior management on a regular basis.

•  Creates project budgets and communicates forecasted variances to senior management.

•  Develops risk mitigation plans.

•  Identifies and resolves issues in a timely manner. Escalates concerns to the project team and senior management when appropriate.

•  Fosters continued growth of the team’s project management capabilities, improving knowledge and experience within the Project Management Office (PMO).

Qualifications/Experience:

•  Bachelor’s degree. Masters preferred.

•  10+ years of solid project management experience with a proven track record in planning, scheduling and executing highly visible, large-scale projects.

•  Market research background preferred.

•  Effective communication and consensus building skills. Ability to communicate across all levels of the organization.

•  Strong analytical, problem identification/solving skills.

•  Experience in working across different regions in Europe/US a plus.

•  Independent thinker and self-motivated.

•  Excellent conflict resolution skills.

•  Strong organization skills.

•  Experience with Microsoft Project. Project Server experience a plus.