Senior Project Manager

DRF Construction • Minneapolis, MN

14d

About The Position

The Senior Project Manager provides leadership, to teams across multiple departments. This individual also manages and facilitates cross-functional groups, supervises external consultants, and delegates to project managers and support staff to ensure timely completion of deliverables. They prioritize work within the portfolio, manage project interdependencies, and work with teams to remove barriers and ensure that overall goals are achieved.

The Senior Project Manager works autonomously to drive results, implement changes, and track the impacts of project work. They possess the ability to provide structure to highly complex, high risk, undefined work with significant interdependencies. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for assembling project teams, identifying key stakeholders/project partners, managing program risks, and tracking action items, issues, and key decisions throughout the project lifecycle. This is a highly visible position within the organization, requiring the greatest degree of professionalism, emotional intelligence, and business acumen. Senior Project Managers are highly valued organizational assets and represent a respected leadership position.

This position will provide a wide range of project and client support and services in the areas of project management, healthcare systems, medical specialty, new construction, tenant improvements, building renovation and special projects. The position works closely with the Frauenshuh teams in the form of:

Requirements

• Advanced experience in portfolio and project management best practices.
• Advanced ability to create work breakdown structure diagrams, risk management plans, stakeholder analyses, communication plans, and complex project plans.
• Advanced ability to transform complex concepts into visuals and presentations for stakeholders to understand.
• Hands-on, assertive, and proactive management in order to meet timelines.
• Credible, articulate, and authoritative with expert ability to influence with impact throughout the organization.
• Ability to quickly assimilate information, assess, and act upon new concepts, trends, and initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including C-suite executives.
• Independent and critical thinker who can translate abstract concepts into actions that move the business forward.
• Excellent troubleshooting and escalation skills, with the ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Ability to build strong teams and effective relationships, and provide leadership to a variety of stakeholder groups, without having direct authority.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a desire to produce high quality work.
• High level of emotional intelligence and integrity.
• Comfortable exercising judgement using advanced analytical and problem-solving skills in a range of situations from ambiguous to well-defined.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
• Ability to adapt to frequent changes in duties and volume of work.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in project management or senior project management roles. Leading significant healthcare projects with medical specialty and/or healthcare system clients ranging in cost more than $5,000,000. Experience managing enterprise-wide, cross-functional projects. Experience supporting a portfolio of projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic consultant/advisor to a variety of senior and mid-level stakeholders/project partners for initiative planning and implementation.
• Oversee and maintain programs and/or a portfolio of concurrent projects with many cross-functional integration points.
• Support, lead, and influence the formulation and delivery of strategic projects and initiatives. Drive all phases of project completion including initiation, planning, implementation, monitoring/controlling and transition/project closeout for review and input by leadership.
• Define and develop complex project plans with multiple work streams and prioritize associated tasks.
• Utilize project management tools and principles to drive leadership teams towards achieving specified milestones, appropriately escalating barriers affecting the initiative timeline, scope, budget and resources, or quality of outcome.
• Anticipate and identify issues and risks, including resource constraints, to the initiative timeline, scope, budget, and goals. Develop solutions or alternative options for review with input from subject matter experts, as needed.
• Act as a liaison between the project team and applicable departments to ensure project deliverables are completed on time and with high quality.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential project obstacles, and devise contingency plans.
• Set up teams for continued success during periods of project transition.
• Oversee work of contracted project managers and ensure adherence to Frauenshuh’s PM standards and expectations.

Benefits

• comprehensive healthcare options
• encouragement for living a healthy life
• training and actions to ensure safe work environments
• contributions to an employee’s efforts to save and invest for their future and that of their family
• competitive annual discretionary bonus based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives

What This Job Offers

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