The Project Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Manages a large multi-faceted project/account/campaign or multiple projects at the same time.
• Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team.
• Organizes new challenges and drive business results.
• Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
• Drives end results of the project as a representative of the business.
• Works closely with the Customer, Sales Team, Engineering and Manufacturing to define a project scope and objectives for project members.
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
• Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur.
• Applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.
• Defines, teaches, and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled.
• Identifies and where required amends the approach to the context and constraints of each project.
• Constantly improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion.
• Possess the knowledge, skills and experience to be able to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming.
• Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed.
• Promotes partner involvement through effectively communicating project status upward and to the Client.
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues.
• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Owns all management reports on a given engagement.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of project management experience – preferably from a mortgage or financial services environment
• PMP certification strongly preferred, Six Sigma a plus.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional.
• Stays abreast of current industry trends and new technology through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

• Hands-on expert in Workday Learning: Strong experience configuring, operating and optimizing WD Learning (mass uploads, assignments, reporting, security, functional troubleshooting, and coordination with IT).

• Advanced English (mandatory)

• Strong problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset: Highly analytical profile, capable of diagnosing complex LMS operational issues and designing agile, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

• High learning agility and adaptability to change

• Change-focused Project Manager and inspirational people leader: Proven experience leading operational teams and managing transformation initiatives (governance, process optimization, adoption, communication, and KPI tracking)

RECOMENDACIONES:

• Revisa y analiza detenidamente el Job Posting. Si cumples con los requisitos, no dudes en aplicar.

• El Job Posting estará publicado por 5 días hábiles y tiene fecha de vencimiento para poder postular.

• Mayor prioridad a perfiles con CV adjunto y perfil actualizado en Workday.

• Sólo adjunta CV en versión Word o PDF, no fotografías, Excel o Power Point.

• Es fundamental tener disponibilidad y facilidad para comunicarse en los canales de comunicación oficiales.

• Cumplir con los lineamientos de mi carrera (Tiempo la posición, desempeño y comunicar a manager actual).

• Radicar en la región que demanda el puesto.

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Job Family Group:

Project and Program Management

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Job Family:

Project Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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