Senior Project Manager - Sourcing & Contract Policies

NFF Inc•Washington, DC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

NFF is seeking a Senior Project Manager for one of our premier DC customers modernization efforts transitioning from on-premise to a cloud environment. NFF seeks a Project Manager to support the PMO by managing procurement templates, policies, and procedures. This Modernization Project is replacing the existing on-premises procurement management system with a new state-of-the-art cloud solution.

Requirements

Required 20+ years’ expert proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required.
Required 16+ years’ project management experience in technical writing or documentation management, with demonstrated writing and editing skills.
Required 16+ years’ experience with demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate messages and tailor documents for diverse audiences.
Required 16+ years’ of proven leadership and decision-making skills managing a diverse team including onsite and virtual team members
Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience is required.
PMP certification required
Must be willing to work onsite 4 days a week

Nice To Haves

Desired 16+ years’ experience or familiarity with contract law or procurement processes.
Desired 5+ years’ experience managing cloud ERP testing.
Desired 8+ years’ experience with Microsoft SharePoint and Teams

Responsibilities

Developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules.
Creating and maintaining project documents.
Coordinating submissions of workstream weekly status reports.
Developing PMO status reports and preparing status presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Reporting status to the PMO, project leadership, and organizational leadership.
Organizing project artifacts in Microsoft Teams.
Coordinate and contribute to the development and revision of procurement sourcing, contract, and related templates to reflect current policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Coordinate and contribute to the development and revision of procurement process and procedure documentation to ensure clarity and compliance with organizational and legislative policies.
Collaborate with the Project PMO, legal staff, leadership, procurement staff, and other subject matter experts to gather information for template, policy, and procedure development.
Facilitate workshops or meetings to obtain information needed for documentation or to determine documentation requirements.
Ensure all documents meet legal requirements, regulatory standards, and adhere to customer style guides and templates.
Conduct ongoing reviews of existing documentation to identify areas for improvement.
Produce high-quality documentation that is clear, consistent, accurate, and meets procurement industry standards.
Maintain all documents in designated Microsoft Teams folders, ensuring they are organized, up-to-date, and easily accessible by procurement staff.
Develop simple, understandable step-by-step job aids to support the implementation of new or revised templates and documents.
Translate the strategic vision for templates, policies, and procedures into actionable plans, including: Project plans, resource alignment, training, communications, transformation management, change management, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, go-live preparations, and post-go-live support.
Balance multiple priorities by coordinating workstream resources and monitoring activities to maintain PMO schedules, updating as necessary, and mitigating impacts to other workstreams.
Analyze complex delivery dates and create innovative Microsoft Project schedules or Agile Scrum Roadmap Timebox schedules.
Align schedules with organizations, stakeholder groups, functional workstreams, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components to deliver on time and within budget.
Monitor progress to track milestones and report status.
Oversee project scope and objectives, including managing RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions), change management, and communications processes.
Organize and maintain all project artifacts in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint folders for team access.
Participate in PMO, Steering Committee, and other project meetings, documenting discussions and decisions.
Serve as a liaison to facilitate communication between the PMO, other project managers, and team members.
Support the PMO in all aspects of the project.