Senior Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Manage daily project execution, including scope, task coordination, and change requests. Ensure smooth tactical delivery, allowing the Program Manager to focus on overall strategy and long-term planning.
• Provide clear project status updates by tracking delivery health and performance. Maintain and review Jira dashboards and weekly reports, including capacity versus velocity, burndown charts, and statistics.
• Partner with project and technical leads on resource planning and assignments. Coordinate team members across projects to optimize utilization, balance workloads, and ensure accurate time reporting.
• Track project budgets across sites, manage constraints, support frontend effort estimates, and contribute to planning and forecasting.
• Work with site managers, the Frontend Program Manager, and the Delivery & Service Manager to align scope, priorities, timelines, objectives, and commitments.
• Identify, track, and manage risks and dependencies. Maintain the Frontend Risk & Dependency Register, drive mitigation actions, and keep stakeholders informed of impacts and resolutions.

Requirements:

• Strong background in project management (PMP or Agile certifications preferred) with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proven experience in resource planning and cross-functional team management.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Proficient in project management tools (e.g., Excel and Jira as must-have).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong background in presenting analytical data, monthly KPIs view.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or other project management methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and fast-paced and constantly changing environment. Strategic thinking with an ability to balance immediate demands and long-term goals.
• The candidate must be ready to work an adjusted schedule to accommodate U.S. business needs, which includes overlapping hours outside the standard 9:00 AM–5:00 PM (CET time).

Nice to have:

• Clarity and PowerBI.
• Familiarity with budgeting and financial forecasting.
• PMP or Agile certifications preferred.