Senior Project Manager

We take great strides to ensure our employees have the resources to live well, be healthy, continue learning, develop skills, grow professionally and serve our local communities. We invite you to apply for a career with us. Residency in or relocation to Louisiana is preferred for all positions. POSITION PURPOSE This individual contributor position facilitates the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors, vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual, complex and highly visible projects, ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables, new and improved processes, and services. The Senior Project Manager manages projects of high complexity and high visibility, and operates in a tightly regulated industry environment. The Senior Project Manager is directly responsible for ensuring the execution of all key steps in project delivery: business, technical and functional requirements elicitation, dependency mapping, milestone projections, task-level program steps, identification and regular publishing of metrics which define project success. The position must regularly monitor work to ensure that projects remain in line with projected costs and timelines. This is accomplished by ensuring the adoption of well-established, industry best practice frameworks and methodologies. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities. NATURE AND SCOPE This role does not manage people This role reports to this job: DIRECTOR, PROJECT EXECUTION Necessary Contacts: INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS: Interfaces directly with client management (senior management, business owners and project team members) in negotiation and definition of requirements. Negotiates, defines, interprets plan/policy requirements and presents options and processing capabilities to upper level management. Provides guidance and direction to all areas placing requirements on the system. Has management responsibility for highly complex cross-divisional projects with cross-department and cross-organization impacts. Interfaces frequently with IT, PMO and business leaders. Exercises diplomacy and tact in discussions with client management on controversial subjects. OUTSIDE RELATIONSHIPS: Frequent contact with client management to exchange information and/or make presentations on information systems concepts. Reviews and maintains contact with selected user groups with similar problems and user organizations. Attends outside technical meetings as directed, making presentations when necessary. QUALIFICATIONS Education Bachelor's Project Management, Computer Science, or related field required Completion of an approved educational program or four years of related experience may be accepted in lieu of degree. required Work Experience 4 years of experience in planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. The 4 years must include a minimum of three years of experience in senior-level planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes. required Skills and Abilities High degree of competency with PMBOK methodologies and frameworks such as project management, software development life cycle and ITIL. Six Sigma and Organizational development best practices a plus. Requires advanced knowledge and experience in the field of computer science, including hardware and software products, computer systems, systems analysis, programming, development/maintenance process, and data management for large complex systems. Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to create and deliver presentations to organization management including Senior Management are required. Must have demonstrated ability to effectively manage project teams independently with minimal oversight from management. Ability to demonstrate presentation and facilitation skills working with key stakeholders and management including executive management required. Experience in interpreting and explaining specialized or complex material into information consumable by the public required. Must have demonstrated ability to critically analyze business information and process flows, gather relevant requirements and generate business, functional and technical specifications needed for successful delivery. ANALYTICAL & CREATIVE Must have experience identifying, defining, quantifying and solving complex or highly technical project-related issues on a regular basis. Must have experience using creativity/innovative approaches to resolve issues despite minimum lead times and with minimum requirement definition for changes or projects of major proportions. Must have experience correlating requirements and information from multiple sources, anticipating both current and future processing and management information needs, analyzing their potential impacts, and creating new technical solutions for these needs. Licenses and Certifications PMI certification preferred ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Continuously adheres to project management standards, processes, and procedures to ensure that products and services meet the client requirements in a cost-efficient manner. Mentors junior-level project managers in areas of professional development and skills enhancement. Actively pursues personal skills and leadership development opportunities to ensure growth and the ability to demonstrate a high level of quality and productivity. Actively participates in the aligning of work and work habits with the organization’s strategic and complementary tactical plans. The strategy and tactics are to be responsive to and properl