Senior Project Management Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Iowa.

📋 Description

• Oversee projects of various complexities, organizational significance, risk levels, and visibility.

• Create and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, resource allocations, and implementation strategies.

• Manage projects that are part of larger programs directly.

• Develop integrated project plans that align with scope, timelines, dependencies, delivery commitments, process impacts, and operational readiness.

• Foster collaborations with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and key stakeholders.

• Coordinate execution across business, product, technology, delivery, process, and change management teams.

• Facilitate the resolution of dependencies and competing priorities.

• Deliver executive-ready updates regarding progress, risks, issues, trade-offs, dependencies, outcomes, and decision requirements.

• Identify, assess, manage, and escalate risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, trade-offs, and impacts of changes.

• Integrate change management, communication, stakeholder engagement, process readiness, and adoption activities into project plans.

• Formulate mitigation strategies and drive the resolution of issues.

• Offer guidance and informal mentoring to project teams.

• Promote consistent project management methodologies, tools, reporting, governance practices, and cross-functional collaborative efforts.

• Advocate for continuous improvement in project management practices, governance, reporting, delivery partnerships, and process alignment.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• At least five years of experience in project management or a related area.

• Preferred program or project management certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, or similar credentials.

• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies, governance practices, and delivery management principles.

• Capability to lead multiple concurrent projects and align various teams and stakeholders.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.

• Competence in influencing decisions and resolving conflicts.

• Strong skills in managing project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, process changes, and organizational impacts.

• Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery methodologies.

• Ability to implement suitable delivery practices based on project requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive rewards package; benefits details can be found at www.emcins.com/careers.

• Tobacco-free workplaces, including company vehicles.