Job Description
Job role : Project Manager
Duration : 3 month Contract to hire
Location : Coppell, TX 75019 Hybrid
Job Description:
In this role, resources will:
- Act as a strategic and trustworthy partner to customers; internal and external
- Manage market or regional-level product launches; create robust project plans that account for all technical and functional activities required to execute launch by partnering with appropriate resources to elicit information, identify interrelated tasks, and define the level of effort to complete
- Be accountable for project team, and executive statusing
- Be accountable for the creation and management of project plans, status reports, and risk and issue logs
- Initiate creative and collaborative ways to remove risk
- Manage program calendar and meeting schedule to track towards timely execution of implementation
- Collaborate with a cross functional team during a project to inform various stakeholders of upcoming tasks, project status and escalating issues when necessary
- Demonstrate the ability to motivate and guide internal teams to deliver according to plan
- Lead cross-functional / customer discussions on implementation and / or project activities
- Demonstrate core problem solving skills in ambiguous situations to deliver a successful implementation and onboarding
- Support change control processes and governance meetings to ensure alignment and integrity of the project scope and timeline
- Partner up with Delivery Leads to communicate and escalate barriers to ensure project success
- Proactively reach out to customers (internal and external) and decision makers to manage expectations and drive accountability
Attributes / Characteristics:
General
- Comfortable operating within a dynamic work environment and executing in situations where some unknowns exist
- Excited about Brinks mission around DRS
- Enthusiastic about constant learning and self-improvement
Communication / stakeholder management
- Communicate clearly and regularly between Sales, Product, Customer Success, Customer Care, and other necessary teams to ensure clarity on customer expectations for delivery
- Effective at articulating complex information in an easy to understand way
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to persuade and influence others
- Comfortable leading conversations and building quick rapport with peers and leaders
- Able to appropriately set and reset expectations with stakeholders
Project Management
- Significant project management experience on complex projects lasting 4+ months
- Ability to handle aggressive deadlines, work cross-functionally, and prioritize work in a fast-paced environment
- Effective at motivating and communicating the delivery expectations for other internal and external teams
- Able to manage multiple activities and prioritize those based on business and customer impact and a "get things done" mindset will be critical to success
Technical
- Working understanding of the Brinks systems and processes
- Strong understanding of the needs of a Business / IT / Executive
Flexibility
- Able to ramp up quickly on new subject matters
- Active listening skills and naturally curious about new topics
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills are also key
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of project management experience preferred
- Managing large scale projects
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- PMP and/or LEAN certification a plus
- Managing global (multi-market) experience is a significant plus
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