Senior Technical Project Manager

Penske•Reading, PA

About The Position

As a Senior Technical Project Manager you will provide end to end technical project management for our largest and most strategic enterprise-wide technology projects to enable us to continue to lead the transportation services industry. As a Penske Senior Technical Project Manager you will be responsible for managing multiple IT projects simultaneously , focusing on the most strategic and / or largest projects in the company that have a significant technology component. You will manage all program activity, budget and resources to ensure the program remains on schedule, within budget, and that no rework will be required.

Responsibilities

Understand, support, apply, and maintain the Penske Project Management Methodology, documentation and tools.
Full life cycle project management (initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing) to support waterfall and agile development projects.
Project Planning duties include discovery and framing of solutions, requirements gathering, and business case and charter development through understanding internal and external customer needs.
Project requirements include working directly with IT and Business process owners to define the specific project requirements and deliverables.
Work closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and product owners to distill technical requirements into easily actionable user stories or specifications.
Acts as the project architect to ensure the various cross functional elements of the solution work effectively together.
Development and management of work breakdown structure along with key milestone measurements and baseline delivery timelines. Efficiently planning for and prioritize needed resources based on deliverable dates, scope, and goals
Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path deliverables.
Effectively communicate the program status, scope changes, issues and risks to leadership.
Responsible for the development project budget that captures all expenditures for the entire set of project resources.
Participate in agile ceremonies including framing & discovery, sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demonstrations, and retrospective meetings.
Monitor all program activity, budget and resources to ensure the program remains on schedule, within budget, and that no rework will be required.
Facilitate project working sessions, project update meetings and steering committee report outs
Follow up on project related issues with responsible resources all the way through to resolution and holding all project related resources accountable to agreed upon deliverables.
Monitoring risks and scoping creep on each project in order to preemptively address potential issues
Manage all project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables to internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for ongoing project status report outs, and project measurement systems.
Set up & maintain the use of appropriate tools for project management documentation for effective tracking and facilitate sharing of project information.
Effectively close projects down upon completion of final deployment and post deployment support.
Complete project after action reviews to identify process improvement opportunities
Work with leadership to ensure project alignment to approved programs; Appropriately set and managing client expectations through tactful negotiation and clear communication; Identify, analyze, and communicate project risks; Manage the expectation of stakeholders across the project; Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple task within established timeframes; Delegate task and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
Provide training and mentor both IT and business associates on the Penske project management methodology and tools.
Vendor sourcing activities, including the development of RFP’s, RFQ’s and RFI’s.
Involvement in contract review sessions including master service agreements, subscription service agreements, statements of work and support agreements.
Provide support on technology research that is related to defined projects or initiatives.
Vendor management activities to support application development, contractor onboarding and SOW deliverable validation.
Use knowledge of software engineering, IT concepts, and business acumen to guide cross-functional teams in the execution of technical proof-of-concepts.
Prepare presentations, project documentation and reports to various partners.
Develop, maintain and effectively execute software development iterations throughout the life of your assigned projects, which defines activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, duration and associated resource requirements.
Identify new project methodologies and implement approved project management tools
Identification of process improvement opportunities and follow through using tools like lean process improvements.
Provide ad hoc analysis to support portfolio/project KPI’s, metrics and finding.