Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities : • Understand, support, apply, and maintain the Penske Project Management Methodology, documentation and tools. • Full life cycle project management (initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing) to support waterfall and agile development projects. • Project Planning duties include discovery and framing of solutions, requirements gathering, and business case and charter development through understanding internal and external customer needs. • Project requirements include working directly with IT and Business process owners to define the specific project requirements and deliverables. • Work closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and product owners to distill technical requirements into easily actionable user stories or specifications. • Acts as the project architect to ensure the various cross functional elements of the solution work effectively together. • Development and management of work breakdown structure along with key milestone measurements and baseline delivery timelines. Efficiently planning for and prioritize needed resources based on deliverable dates, scope, and goals • Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path deliverables. • Effectively communicate the program status, scope changes, issues and risks to leadership. • Responsible for the development project budget that captures all expenditures for the entire set of project resources. • Participate in agile ceremonies including framing & discovery, sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demonstrations, and retrospective meetings. • Monitor all program activity, budget and resources to ensure the program remains on schedule, within budget, and that no rework will be required. • Facilitate project working sessions, project update meetings and steering committee report outs • Follow up on project related issues with responsible resources all the way through to resolution and holding all project related resources accountable to agreed upon deliverables. • Monitoring risks and scoping creep on each project in order to preemptively address potential issues • Manage all project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables to internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for ongoing project status report outs, and project measurement systems. • Set up & maintain the use of appropriate tools for project management documentation for effective tracking and facilitate sharing of project information. • Effectively close projects down upon completion of final deployment and post deployment support. • Complete project after action reviews to identify process improvement opportunities • In a Management Capacity you will; Work with leadership to ensure project alignment to approved programs; Appropriately set and managing client expectations through tactful negotiation and clear communication; Identify, analyze, and communicate project risks; Manage the expectation of stakeholders across the project; Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple task within established timeframes; Delegate task and responsibilities to appropriate personnel • Provide training and mentor both IT and business associates on the Penske project management methodology and tools. • Vendor sourcing activities, including the development of RFP’s, RFQ’s and RFI’s. • Involvement in contract review sessions including master service agreements, subscription service agreements, statements of work and support agreements. • Provide support on technology research that is related to defined projects or initiatives. • Vendor management activities to support application development, contractor onboarding and SOW deliverable validation. • Use knowledge of software engineering, IT concepts, and business acumen to guide cross-functional teams in the execution of technical proof-of-concepts. • Prepare presentations, project documentation and reports to various partners. • Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development iterations throughout the life of your assigned projects, which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements. • Identify new project methodologies and implement approved project management tools • Identification of process improvement opportunities and follow through using tools like lean process improvements. • Provide ad hoc analysis to support portfolio/project KPI’s, metrics and finding.