The Project Manager is a critical member of Nielsen’s Enterprise IT team and reports to the VP Enterprise IT Portfolio Management. The Project Manager is responsible for leading teams to deliver the project(s) across one or more business units. Manage resources, schedules, and project plans for the program/project life cycle. This also includes managing issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery. The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Verify that the project produces the required quality deliverables within the specified time and cost constraints and achieves the potential benefits defined in the business case.
Responsibilities
Create a highly collaborative team environment by working closely with senior management and stakeholders to define project scope, goals, and deliverables
Lead, coach and manage project teams in a matrix organization to meet project goals, deliver on responsibilities, and complete project milestones
Drive the end-to-end project lifecycle from initiation through deployment Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives
Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources and chair the project management team meetings
Work closely with SMEs and process owners to enable alignment across project teams, collaboration, and synergiesProvide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
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.
Constantly monitor project constraints (scope, budget, time, risks, quality, and resources) to ensure successful completion, mitigation, and timely decisions-making
Partner closely with vendors and third parties to build mutually beneficial relationships and consistent ways or working
Implement change control processes to ensure impacts are evaluated, understood, and communicated
Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverable with team members and stakeholders
Establish change management plans in partnership with SMEs and process owners to ensure and accelerate adoption of new technologies and processes
Qualifications
5+ years experience in project management
Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations
Proven ability to paceset and work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
Experience managing SAP Implementations or other ERP implementation projects (ie: Oracle, Workday, etc.)
Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives
Experience in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget close
Experience presenting to executive sponsors and demonstrated communication skills; both written and oral with technical and non-technical staff, all levels of management
Experience influencing and gaining buy-in from executives sponsors, team members, stakeholders and peers Flexible with proven ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
