Senior Project Manager
Caterpillar
- Nashville, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- As a Senior Project Manager, your servant-leader mindset and project management expertise will be key enablers as you and the team deliver on our business partners' key business objectives.
- This position requires the ability to effectively translate a desired business outcome into an actionable, achievable, and team-aligned plan that delivers per expectations.
- Overseeing project processes and procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
- Managing all aspects of projects. Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of project.
- Ensuring adherence to project methodologies and best practices.
- Preparing and presenting program level reporting for stakeholders.
- Demonstrate strong leadership within the team and assigned projects, providing excellent support and coaching.
- Strong practical understanding of project management fundamentals, best practices and methodologies.
- Manages high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
- Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
- Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
- Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
- Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
- Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
- Establish and maintain healthy working relationships with, sponsors, stakeholders and team members.
- A 4-year college or university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study.
- Project Management Professional certification (PMP)
- 6 Sigma background
- Minimum 7 years past experience leading large and complex projects with significant technical components and/or ERP implementations, major upgrades, and/or deployments
- This role is a hybrid position and would require any successful candidate to commit to a 3 day per week in office requirement.