Senior Project manager

We are recruiting a team for a large American company - the world leader in the production of special equipment, industrial machinery and equipment since 1886.

A leader because the company's machines are high-tech, reliable and economical. Each machine has hundreds of sensors. The company's 30 million machines in the world transmit petabytes of data. All this data is invaluable to customers - managing their business quickly and efficiently and the team creates an innovative platform to perform predictive analytics.

JOB DUTIES:

• Apply prior Project Management experience and business acumen to coordinate the efforts of cross functional teams.
• Define program scope with program success indicators to reap benefits of the program within a defined timeframe.
• Prioritize program requirements working with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.
• Incumbent will manage multiple cross-teams’ dependencies, ensuring alignment to a project delivery date.
• Develop and produce project management schedules.
• Use professional project management tools and techniques to manage reporting, tracking charts, checklist, and project scheduling software and to delegate appropriately.
• Manage change and take active leadership in timely decision making.
• Manage schedules that reflect detailed information related to the changes, including affected components and functions, issues, risks, timelines for various stages of project completion, cost, etc.
• Will work with the individual team members from multiple functional disciplines and customers to establish completion dates.
• Monitor progress of projects, discusses problems with affected areas, assures appropriate personnel are informed of problems and steps are in place to meet schedules.
• Depending on the nature of problems, expected to recommend possible solutions and alternatives.
• Provide regular reports to senior management.

Basic qualifications:

· 10+ years of direct project management experience working with software engineering teams in an agile environment

· 1+ year of experience with Generative AI/AI projects

· 3+ years of experience with data science/ML

· Proven experience with project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion

· Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.

· Should have strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, ability to multitask effectively, strong analytical and organizational skills.

· Working knowledge of MS Azure DevOps

Top candidates will also have:

· Masters’ degree in computer science, information systems, or closely related disciplines

· PMP certification preferred

· Prior experience managing cloud based (AWS) project preferred

· Working knowledge of Confluence

· Advance knowledge of Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Project

· Strong communication and presentation skills

· Knowledge of Power BI is highly desirable

· Quality and/or Change Management related certifications preferred

· Experience with data management/big data is highly desirable

Conditions:

- remote work;

- working hour on 7am-3pm CST (Chicago time zone)

- flexible schedule, comfortable work&life balance;

- established processes, healthy friendly atmosphere;
- high level of salary in foreign currency;