Transformation Project Manager in Jacksonville, FL at MV Transportation

Job Description

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Responsibilities

The Transformation Project Manager plays a key role in the delivery of tranformative projects. This role allows for project management discipline to be built into and maintained in the all projects and key initiatives. The Transformation Project Manager’s primary role is to manage projects, such as new software implementations, closedowns of divisions, major change activity for existing divisions, and key transformation projects across MV. This role is accountable to oversee each assigned project through a standard governance model, which includes but not limited to, financial management, schedule management, implementation and handoff to operations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop or understand the scope of the project.
• Manage activities across multiple functional areas.
• Manage pre-transition planning and strategy sessions.
• Maintain a cadence for reporting for all transformation projects.
• Identify any risks associated with the project and coordinate a mitigation plan with the project team.
• Perform daily, weekly and monthly reviews of transformation project KPIs.
• Financial control and management against project budget.
• Build and maintain effective partnerships with key cross functional leaders.
• Educate and coach transformation project team on required disciplines to run the project.
• Engage in pre-sales support and solutioning for transformation costs.
• Drive continuous improvement turning lessons learned into process improvements and best practices.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

Talent Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in project management 
• Knowledge of transformation/change management.
• Communication with key stakeholders.
• Proven ability to motivate teams to achieve project success.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate across the organization with diplomacy at different levels.
• Ability to drive creative problem solving, and conflict resolution to daily tasks.
• Must be well-organized detail-oriented, and disciplined.
• Must have strong communication skills, written and verbal.
• Demonstrable Client and Relationship Management (internal and/or external) 
• Experience managing, coaching, and/or mentoring resources.
• Experience managing teams in a matrix organization.
• Bachelor of Science degree preferred, MBA a plus.
• Able to travel up to 50% of the time.
• Current assignment is 90% onsite in Jacksonville, FL.

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