Primary Function:

The Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple, complex projects through all phases of the project management lifecycle, including managing strategic initiatives that align to strategic roadmaps and organization goals. This individual will be responsible for planning, scheduling, and controlling projects to meet the identified business case and performance objectives. As project manager, he/she works collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic initiatives and projects meet stakeholder requirements while identifying opportunities for process improvement, waste removal, and cost reduction. This individual proactively identifies problems, risks, barriers, and challenges, and clearly thinks through and communicates potential solutions for resolution. He/she will work with initiative sponsors, project team members, and senior leadership throughout the enterprise to build positive professional relationships and model the Nemours Standards of Behaviors.

Essential Functions:

1. Competent with project management methodology and knowledgeable in lean processes, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
2. Using project management and lean processes, tools, and techniques, drives projects to successful implementation - from initiation through closing.
3. Effectively manages all project phases with accountability for multiple deliverables. Defines and tracks project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan.
4. Comfortable managing small, medium and large-scale projects with life-cycle durations ranging from multiple months to multiple years.
5. Delivers high quality value-added strategic initiatives and projects, which meet the identified goals and objectives, and are the result of excellent project management planning, implementation, and organizational skills.
6. Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within the agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters.
7. Takes initiative, and is self-directed, while thriving in a setting requiring collaboration and teamwork for maximal efficiency and effectiveness.
8. Demonstrates ability to effectively respond to time sensitive issues, meet deadlines, and manage shifting priorities, in a timely and thorough manner.
9. Creates and utilizes tools and techniques to ensure executive sponsors and project stakeholders are engaged and informed about project status, issues, risks, barriers and/or challenges.
10. Uses the established escalation mechanisms to identify, document, and seek resolution on major problems and risks, along with a willingness to go above and beyond to resolve problems by encouraging ongoing identification of problems and facilitating problem solving methods using continuous improvement principles.
11. Works well with project team members and functional leaders to define work packages, estimate effort, determine resource capacity, and establish consensus on project activities.
12. Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities, as may be assigned from time to time by employee's supervisor.