Posted:
12/2/2024, 11:37:50 PM
Location(s):
Texas, United States ⋅ Dallas, Texas, United States
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Product
About the Role:
Alcority is a global provider of cloud-enabled shared business services that creates long-term value for a privately-held portfolio of companies. The services and solutions that we offer enable our ambitious partners to “amplify their competitive advantage” by focusing on doing and scaling what they are uniquely positioned to do best.
As the complexity of our projects are increasing, project management is critical for Alcority to drive business outcomes, mitigate risks, and ensure effective project delivery. The position requires significant cross-functional coordination, relationship building, fundamental technical knowledge and expectation management amongst our organization and partners.
The Senior Project Manager will collaborate with leaders and stakeholders across at the organization to ensure appropriate delivery of activities related to project management, executive communications, and change management governance. The position has highly visible projects within the organization and with our partners which requires excellent communication and relationship management skills.
Responsibilities:
Drive projects focused on data center design, build and run to enable our partners to deliver optimal business outcomes.
Review, manage, and resolve resource assignments/constraints on projects that support programs. Determine best methods for assessing comprehensiveness and accuracy of project planning and resource requirements.
Deliver projects with technology approved artifacts, scope, schedule and budget while tracking measurements of success.
Build out and maintain all agreed upon project management artifacts including charters, requirements, end to end project plans, stakeholder approvals process, and notifications in a single source to drive transparency throughout the project management lifecycle
Drive quality throughout delivery, including QA and UAT. Ensure outputs are thoroughly tested and proven before deployment to partners and transitioned to support
Build and manage stakeholder relationships (both internal and external), communicating clear and concise messaging to various levels of leadership consistently
Govern and support the project and program level change control processes in the PMO. Ensure that changes are approved and signed off from leadership
Govern and be accountable for all financial applications projects with quality checks, communications accuracy, and delivery
Develop key relationships with our cross functional teams, partners, and vendors while promoting PPM processes and tools throughout the organization
Manage, review and quality check overall project health status, critical path dependencies, project management lifecycle, phase gates, key milestones, issues/risks, success measurements, and variances (schedule, scope, cost) on a weekly basis
Drive continuous process improvements of project end to end delivery with feedback loops and postmortems.
Drive risk mitigation solutions and recommendations for projects, review risk tracking, and overall governance of the projects risk reporting. Create and manage risk management reporting for leadership reviews and approvals
Actively drive issues to resolution by holding self and others accountable with timely Go-To-Green action plans
Maintain best practices for overall project reporting deliverables including project milestones, risks, escalations, dependencies, executive level read outs and steering committee reviews
Be a leader in the Project Delivery Management capability by driving adoption of our processes, PPM tools, end to end delivery governance of implementation plans, training, change management and user adoption. Drive team, partners, and vendor adoption of our shared services standards
Ensure a high level of consistency in quality of project-related data. This includes internal and external artifacts that adhere to portfolio governance policies, approvals of requirements, executive communications, training materials, and project data analytics
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Communications, Technology, Business Administration or related field
8 - 10 years of experience working in a PMO as a project manager
PMP/ PRINCE 2 certification and/or related coursework in program management, project management, lean six sigma, SAFE Agile, ITIL, and more
Prior experience as a senior lead delivering projects involving technical outcomes ideally for data center design, build and operations.
Extensive experience working with 3rd party vendors or contractors to execute a project
Able to work autonomously while being a team player, driving decisions and influencing change
Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward alignment
Able to energize a team against a goal, committed to continuous process evolution and improvements
Substantial communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations. The ideal candidate excels in connecting outcomes, process and execution
Proficiency with Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Jira Align, Tableau, Confluence, Microsoft PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, MS Project, SharePoint or other related PPM Tools
Ability to adapt to changes quickly, capable to pivot and focus on competing initiatives, as well as manage multiple priorities simultaneously
Calm under pressure, able to make quick and rational decisions, deliver through ambiguity, while maintaining the project priorities of the team.
It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Benefits & Perks:
Time Off: 25 days of PTO for full-time employees and 12 company holidays.
Company Paid Benefits: Life insurance, Short-term disability, Long-term disability, Paid parental leave, Employee Assistance Program, and medical insurance in our high deductible health plan.
Optional Employee Paid Benefits: Medical insurance in our EPO plan, Dental benefits, and Vision benefits. We also offer Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, Supplemental Life insurance, and more.
401(k): Eligible after 60 days. Discretionary company match of 50% up to the first 6% of contributions.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
ALCORITY IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE COMPANY'S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.
Website: https://alcority.com/
Headquarter Location: Newyork, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Employee Count: 11-50
Year Founded: 2019
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Accounting ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Human Resources ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ IT Infrastructure ⋅ Risk Management