Senior Project Manager, Marketing (Contract Talent)

Robert Half • San Ramon, CA

23d • $47 - $68

About The Position

Who We Are Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring a Senior Project Manager to join the Marketing department. This individual will support the Portfolio Manager in managing Global Portfolio Management efforts. This role will also lead, manage and conduct Project/Program kick-offs, pre-project/program planning and manage all project/program related efforts in Smartsheet, Workfront, Jira, and associated productivity tools & systems. The role will require interaction with senior leaders, management, and several cross-functional teams within and outside of Marketing. As such, this role will have end-to-end responsibilities across many areas of Portfolio Management and complex projects. This role will also require the ability to adapt to the many facets of Program/Project management that is currently being defined/revised and implemented within the organization. This is a thought leader who can be a doer as well as a strong process partner with all levels of the organization.

Requirements

• Proven track record of successfully leading varied complexity projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget.
• Experience leading, motivating and managing various project and program team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance.
• Minimum 5-7 years of marketing experience.
• Minimum 8-10+ years of project leadership and/or management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or technical.
• Exceptional project and program management skills.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy.
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations.
• Skilled in business/technical process development and documentation.
• Excellent experience in SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall.
• Experience in playing the Scrum Master role for at least one year for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory. (Adjust based on your necessity).
• Excellent skills and knowledge of effective leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal and presentation) and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.
• Experience working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Research best practices within and outside the organization to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results.
• High degree of ownership and integrity, holds self and others accountable.
• Manages stakeholders effectively and is politically-astute.
• Ability to think critically, strategically, and connect dots.
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of urgency and personal motivation.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of various well-documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown technologies, various Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.).
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches or similar: XP, Kanban, Crystal, FDD, etc. a plus.
• Understanding and practice of process management methodologies like Six Sigma (or similar) highly desired.
• Experience with the Workfront project management tool a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business.
• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one major or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones.
• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities.
• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership.
• Manage project scope and changes with a solid understanding of interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence.
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature these capabilities for the organization.
• Lead, manage and conduct Project/Program kick-offs and pre-project/program planning in Smartsheet, Workfront, Jira, and related productivity tools & systems.
• Effectively facilitate and guide project teams on how to use Six Sigma, Agile/Scrum, and adopted process methodologies and best practices which brings value to delight customers.
• Well-versed in facilitating productive discussions, enable decision making, and skilled in conflict resolution in project teams.
• Guide project teams on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, resources and budgets to ensure the delivery of the project’s critical milestones, outcomes and results (on time; on budget; benefit realization; high quality; etc.).
• Ensure plans are coordinated with other planning functions throughout the enterprise and effectively communicate upstream/downstream impacts to all stakeholders.
• Understand business and technical process and be able to document business/technical requirements, process workflows and system documentation.
• Identify and analyze strategic alternatives and feasible options for the organization and project teams in order to drive towards recommendations to marketing management.
• Ensure process consistency, data integrity and decision quality to help portfolio management.
• Be able to adapt changes quickly and function in fast paced and ever-evolving environment.

Benefits

• Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, and dental, and life and disability insurance.
• Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level