Assistant PMO Manager

Kubota • Grapevine, TX

16h • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant PMO Manager will assist and be responsible for end-to-end project management across all functions within specified Kubota departments. This will include definition and scoping of projects, alignment with business sponsors and key stakeholders, project execution, and communication of status and risks. The position will provide key input into the design and planning of key strategic projects and initiatives and manage a team of resources to establish consistent methodology and excellence in execution. The Assistant PMO Manager must communicate with business users to define specific needs. The position is responsible for creating business requirements, project objectives/milestones, and schedules and overseeing quality control throughout the entire project.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science or Engineering at an accredited university.
• 3 years of direct project management experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Strong leadership, management and negotiation skills with the ability to be assertive before project tasks and go-live dates are late.
• Proven ability to be effective in a mission-driven environment.
• Able to document complex requirements in a uniform and logical format that’s easily understood by both business and technical groups.

Nice To Haves

• PMI Certification and/or Six Sigma training is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Help Quality Control PMO policies and procedures.
• Provide feedback and recommendations for improvements on PMO and IS toolset usage.
• Identify and partner with key business users from dealers, divisions and home office departments to derive project needs that will enhance operations and systems.
• Develop and maintain work plans that consider strategic goals, priorities, milestones, time estimates, task sequencing and critical paths while at the same time determining what tasks can be performed concurrently.
• Ensures the timely and quality development of all deliverables for projects.
• Must be able to thoroughly assess projects eliminating or minimizing scope creep.
• Create a consistent methodology to track and maintain future enhancements as additional requirements are added unexpectedly to a project.
• Additional duties assigned by management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level