Manager-Project/Product II

LeadStack Inc. • Services - See below for details, CA

2d • $74 • Hybrid

About The Position

LeadStack Inc. is an award-winning, one of the nation's fastest-growing, certified minority-owned (MBE) staffing services provider of contingent workforce. As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we're proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world. This role involves managing projects and initiatives with a significant enterprise-wide safety impact, supporting safety priorities and goals. The Project Manager will develop objectives and strategies, perform senior project management functions, lead cross-functional teams, and develop and maintain a master enterprise project plan for complex safety culture projects.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience managing projects, programs or contracts
• Experience implementing large scale programs/projects with major impacts
• Experience facilitating cross functional teams
• Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills
• Demonstrated experience managing and/or supporting project budget, scope, schedule, and resources, and overseeing the formal planning, tracking, and reporting of project performance.
• Demonstrated experience interfacing and collaborating with team members, all levels of management, different departments and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or implementing business readiness activities including stakeholder analysis, change interventions, training, and communications to ensure business and operational readiness for change.
• Demonstrated experience achieving desired outcomes and actions through negotiation and influence.
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience prioritizing activities, monitoring assignments, and holding team members accountable for results.
• Must demonstrate the ability to integrate work across relevant areas, manage risks appropriately, manage information, and provide exceptional service to internal and external customers.
• Must demonstrate effective decision making, results delivery, team building, and the ability to stay current with relevant technology and innovation.
• Must demonstrate strong ethics, interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
• Bachelor's degree in business, Management, Engineering or related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Typically possesses one to three years of experience coordinating or managing small to medium-sized projects or product workstreams.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to gather requirements, support development of project plans, manage schedules, track progress, and contribute to the execution of defined deliverables.
• Proven ability to problem-solve, anticipate issues, maintain documentation, and operate effectively under moderate time constraints.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interact with cross-functional teams and communicate status updates to various audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Certification

Responsibilities

• Manage projects and initiatives having major enterprise-wide safety impact to in support of safety priorities and goals.
• Develop objectives and short-to-long strategies.
• Perform senior project management functions including analyses, project proposals, project plans, business cases, schedule, project scope definition, risk analysis/mitigation plans, resource requirement identification, developing and implementing metrics to measure and adjust.
• Lead company-wide cross-functional teams to drive project objectives from inception to completion; facilitate meetings, presentations and discussions to identify strategies for continuous improvement, communicate status updates and drive for project results.
• Develop and maintain master enterprise project plan for complex safety culture projects with high visibility and aggressive timelines (including integrating individual project plans, timelines, interdependencies, alignment, and communication needs).
• Responsible for executing overarching Safety Culture Transformation Roadmap and other related safety strategies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED