Sr. Project Manager

Company: American Pacific Mortgage
Location: Roseville
Posted on: January 13, 2022

Job Description:

Position: Sr. Project Manager
Location: Roseville, CA


Job Id: 1998
# of Openings: 1

This position works with the Director of Program Management to support the initiation, planning, and execution of APM's strategic projects. This is a senior level position, which requires an IT/Business professional that has demonstrated experience managing complex projects. The candidate will need to be bright, imaginative, and a capable technologist with strong communication and organizational skills. The Project Manager will assist with implementing organizational wide projects to APM project management standards. The position applies IT and business knowledge and experience to formulate a PMBOK approach to project management. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct planning and execution of assigned projects. Includes planning and leading and facilitating any discovery processes, development of a project charter, project plan, and execution of a project through successful delivery. May lead or plan and conduct the design and/or testing phases.
• Resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between project stakeholders and/or functional areas.
• Develop standard PMBOK and internal project artifacts and tools to monitor assigned projects and communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Manage project budget and resource allocation.
• Facilitate and/or develop the definition of service levels and customer requirements.
• Interact with existing or potential clients to determine their needs and develop plans for improving delivery.
• Advocate on behalf of clients and represent clients' needs as appropriate to senior management.
• Work cross-functionally to solve problems and implement changes.
• Facilitates the coordination of technical projects as the liaison between the business and Information Services.
• Other duties as assigned by management Qualifications/Requirements:
  • (Optional Statement) Extensive knowledge of mortgage banking fulfillment operations and process.
  • Minimum of 3 years professional experience as a Project Manager with applied knowledge of PMBOK methodologies, fundamentals of project management process, and development of project artifacts.
  • Bachelor's degree or 5 years of equivalent work experience in Mortgage Banking, finance and technology.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills; able to analyze problems and work from issue identification through resolution quickly and methodically.
  • Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work well with Sr. level business and technology staff as well as peers.
  • Experience working with vendors and third party application development teams.
  • Prior experience developing requests for proposals, SOW's or other agreements, and managing project budgets.
  • Able to translate business issues/needs into cohesive technology requirements.
  • Superior project planning skills with the ability to handle large work load, facilitate the activities of dynamic workgroups, and multi-task in a fast paced environment.
  • Experience with all phases of the SDLC, including gathering requirements, creating user cases, workflow diagrams and documentation.
  • Strong organizational skills and able to manage multiple concurrent tasks
  • Strong skills in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, etc.)
  • Self-motivated and detail-oriented
  • Flexible and able to adapt to a fast-paced, high pressure, short notice environment where priorities shift often
  • Adaptable -able to quickly learn new or different techniques, products and IT systems or applications.
  • Commitment to company values, policies and procedures. This person must live our culture every day! (Respect, Transparency, Scrappy)
  • Other duties as assigned Desired Skills and Experience
    • Has extensive knowledge of business issues and processes as well as IT resources and enabling technologies.
    • Experience with developing technical documentation methods and procedures
    • Experience in the mortgage or finance Industry.
    • SharePoint Experience
    • Experience working with TFS
    • PMP Certification
    • Prior use of Encompass, Reporting Database, Smartsheet, third party integration A PLUS
      
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      CategoryProject Management SpecialistsEducationBachelor's DegreeExperience3 to 20+ yearsJob typeFull time

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