Sr Project Manager

GM Financial•Fort Worth, TX

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Why GMF Enterprise Project Management Office? Are you ready to make a significant impact on our company’s future? Joining the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) offers you the unique opportunity to actively support our most important strategic enterprise-level projects. As a leader on the project delivery team, you’ll partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams delivering innovative new products and solutions that shape our company’s direction and go beyond the vehicle to deepen our relationship with customers. Your contributions will help drive meaningful change and create lasting value for the business, our customers, and your own professional growth. At GM Financial, and in the EPMO, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive. Therefore, if you enjoy building relationships, providing a first-class customer experience for stakeholders, and being part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced project environment, this role may be a perfect match for you! About the role: The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for managing the project management lifecycle for the organization's most complex, cross-functional enterprise projects designed to support GM and GMF in making strides towards achieving our strategic priorities. These projects often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration. This individual will partner with others across the enterprise to ensure consistent application of the GPPM (Global Project Portfolio Management) processes and procedures, and will contribute to EPMO initiatives.

Requirements

Proven experience and knowledge of the discipline of project management including common principles, methodologies and tools used by practitioners
Proficient in process improvement and development practices
Experience with business case preparation, cost benefit analysis and project execution
Advanced knowledge and experience with PPM software tool; Planview experience preferred
Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to tailor the message based on the audience
Interpersonal skills necessary to work well with others and collaborate with other stakeholders in the organization
Strong problem solving, multi-tasking and decision making abilities
Detail oriented
Proven ability and experience navigating competing priorities
Servant leadership skills and ability to learn new skills quickly
Skilled at producing polished reports using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and/or PPM software
Ability to plan, execute and improve work processes to ensure achievement of business objectives
Proactively achieves goals and objectives and applies critical thinking skills in day-to-day problems and solutions
Ability to demonstrate integrity while successfully managing work demands and pressure
Continually pursues personal development
Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent related work experience required
4+ years experience in project management role working on large and/or complex projects required

Nice To Haves

Planview experience preferred
Experience using Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred
Project Management Certification (PMP, PgMP, Agile, etc.) preferred
Agile/Scrum Certifications (CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, etc.) preferred

Responsibilities

Serves as a project manager for high-priority projects, applying the enterprise GPPM (Global Project Portfolio Management) processes and procedures.
Identifies and assembles the appropriate blend of resources to meet project needs and requirements.
Fosters and champions an environment that promotes trust, self-development, continuous improvement, innovation and quality outcomes.
Ensures a consistent level of quality, accuracy, compliance to GPPM standards, state and federal regulations, and internal controls.
Leads the development of project requirements and scope; establishes appropriate metrics for measuring successful delivery of the projects.
Engages with project teams, business partners and stakeholders frequently on the status of key initiatives with respect to scope, schedule, cost, and resources; presents RAID logs.
Coaches and counsels members of cross-functional teams to accomplish project goals, meet deadlines, and resolve technical/operational issues.
Administers the project change process when needed, formulating contingency plans to address schedule revisions, risks, costs, and scope.
Supports reporting needs of the PMO.
Maintains awareness of industry trends, practices, techniques and emerging technologies related to the project management discipline.
Captures and distributes meeting minutes highlighting decisions, action items, issues, risks, and key discussion topics as needed.