The Senior Technical Project Manager will be a part of the Parks Commercial Systems (PCS) team and will report to the Manager, Technology for Portfolio Planning. You will help solve complex business issues and usher the PCS business areas through project stages from ideation through funding. You will apply project management principles, practices, and techniques to lead and control project schedule, scope, quality, cost and performance risks independently for multiple complex projects. Candidates applying for this position has experience with technology procurement methods and experience managing vendor developed (COSTS, SaaS) and custom software development technology projects.
Responsibilities :

• Identify stakeholders, communicate effectively through identified communication outlets (e.g., email, meeting minutes, etc.), and proactively work with partners to manage expectations.
• Work with the business areas and product owners to create clarity around business objectives through the development of scope and requirements.
• Developing program and project management documents such as project management plans, schedules, budgets, RACI charts, project logs (e.g., risks, issues, actions, decisions, communications, change requests, and lessons learned, etc.)
• Guide communication between business users and implementation team, communicating appropriately with co-workers, customers and supervisors, maintaining awareness of project status and any potential delay, situation or concern that may affect the outcome of the projects.
• Work with PCS business areas to determine and manage to the project scope.
• Manage the assignment of project tasks by developing the project team, assessing project engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing/challenging the output produced by the team.
• Track progress and review project tasks to ensure deadlines are met appropriately.
• Communicate with clients and other stakeholders to gain support for the program or specific projects.
• Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder's needs and requirements continuously in view.
• Shepherd technology projects from ideation to funding:
• Elicit high-level business outcomes and deliverables
• Collect and document project budget estimates using supplied templates
• Partner with Technology Sourcing and Procurement to conduct RFP/RFI in support of solution and estimates for projects
• Work with Finance to create funding documentation (Pro forma, CAR, capitalization)
• Prepare executive-facing status reports in collaboration with multiple team leads
• Effectively prepare and present technical and/or educational documentation of assigned projects to enhance the knowledge project team members.

Basic Qualifications :

• 7+ years' of project management experience, managing diverse teams and complex projects.
• Experience working in technology project initiation in a large technology/digital environment.
• Strategic thinker that can connect business outcomes to technology solutions, strong collaborator, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization; including written, verbal, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Understanding of value-driven outcomes and metrics.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Expertise with project management tools or software packages (Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Tools, such as Clarity, etc.)
• Expert proficiency in office productivity software and tools (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Suite, SmartSheet, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management Professional™ (PMP ®)
• Experience with commercial systems.

Required Education :

• Bachelor's degree in a technology, business-related discipline, or equivalent experience. Years of experience can be substituted for degree field.

Additional Information :
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