Consultant, Project Management
Lincoln Financial Group
- Radnor, PA
- $67,000-120,700 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Championing and enhancing organizational initiatives by positively influencing and supporting change management and/or departmental/enterprise initiatives within assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Serving as a resource to team members and applicable internal/external stakeholders on more complex assignments/projects for his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Consulting and collaborating to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business requirements of stakeholders.
- Using structured requirements process, clearly articulating, documenting and validating complex business requirements.
- Analyzing and verifying requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing complete requirements and solutions.
- Analyzing more complex project plans and validating if project outcomes will meet the business needs, supporting operational objectives and recommending mitigation plan(s).
- Providing expertise and collaborating with internal and/or external stakeholders to assess, select and recommend complex solutions and/or alternative approaches that will achieve business goals.
- Identifying and recommending process improvements that significantly reduce workloads or improve quality for his/her assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Developing & executing effective project management throughout the project development lifecycle, including but not limited to: project planning, resource planning change management and communications planning, & managing changes to scope.
- Using best practice standards, templates and standards to provide structure for initiatives that involve business processes or change management.
- Leveraging knowledge of the project plan to ensure that it is accurate, updated and reflective of authorized changes.
- Providing consultation with project owners and appropriate stakeholders to manage project quality.
- Collaborating effectively with management & appropriate project stakeholders on more complex issues & conflicts that impact time, cost, scope, quality & risk of assigned projects.
- Monitoring & evaluating more complex project’s progress & performance against the project plan & developing more complex mitigation plans.
- Championing and enhancing the direction of emerging solutions to meet the needs of complex assignments, projects, and/or initiatives.
- Serving as a mentor and shares expertise with consultants and project team members.
- 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's) (Minimum Required)
- 3 - 5+ Years experience in Project Management and Business Analysis that directly aligns with the specific responsibilities for this position. (Required)
- Demonstrated ability to be innovative and an aptitude to drive and accept change.
- Demonstrated strong relationship and project management skills including, critical ability to coordinate and balance multiple projects in a time-sensitive environment and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to build and sustain strong partnerships with business and IT.
- Demonstrated experience in advising and collaborating with business and IT to assess business need, identify solutions to solve for business problems, developing quality business requirements
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing resources and priorities.
- Demonstrated strong relationship management skills with internal clients (e.g. senior management, peers and colleagues); proven ability to develop creative and collaborative approaches.