Manager, Project Management

You’re a dynamic, results-driven professional with a passion for excellence in project management. You want to play a pivotal role in a Project Management Office, where you make a significant impact and can take your career to the next level. You thrive on leading cross-functional teams to deliver complex, inter-dependent projects. You'll manage resources, schedules, and budgets, ensuring all projects adhere to our PMO standards and guidelines. You'll drive process improvement initiatives and ensure program objectives are met through daily oversight of project implementation. Your leadership will guarantee that projects deliver quality results within the constraints of time, cost, and resources, achieving our business goals.

If this sounds like you, please read on!

The Manager, Project Management serves a critical role within the Project Management Office. This role will be responsible for leading teams to deliver inter-dependent projects that span cross-functional business teams, managing program resources, schedules and budgets while ensuring adherence to the PMO’s standards and guidelines for program and project management and systems development delivery. The Manager, Project Management will also be accountable for contributing to process improvement initiatives as they relate to program management and project delivery.

The Manager, Project Management will work independently and be accountable for ensuring program objectives are met through oversight of project implementation activities on a day-to-day basis. This includes ensuring that assigned projects produce the required deliverables of quality within the specified constraints of time, cost and/or resources while still achieving the stated business outcomes.

Reporting to the Director, PMO, the Manager, Project Management will also manage other project management team members within the PMO. The Manager, Project Management will possess a comprehensive understanding of cross-enterprise system implementations including the ability to plan and lead initiating and planning activities including requirements and specification elicitation leveraging the best fit methodology based on PMO standards for the projects within a program including, but not limited to, agile epics and stories, business requirements, use cases, wireframes, etc.

• Manages a program of complex, interdependent initiatives that span one or more cross-functional teams that includes both internal and external resources; accountable for full program and project life cycle ownership; successful delivery will include full system implementation from initiation to deployment for one major program initiative or several minor initiatives simultaneously.
• Manages a team of project managers that execute priority initiatives in partnership with both business and shared services; build PMO team member performance management and professional development plans and maintain staff engagement through proactive leadership and coaching.
• Establishes strong relationships across the Academy at all levels of the organization; partners with business leaders to plan and implement solutions to meet organizational objectives
• Engage in problem solving activities; provides leadership to cross functional teams and guides and informs decision making related to process improvement and/or the creation of new processes to resolve issues.
• Participates in establishing processes, best practices, templates, policies, and tools and resources related to program and project delivery standards.
• Identifies, informs and leads continuous improvement efforts within the PMO. Exercises excellent judgment on which items to lead directly and which items to delegate to team members.
• Manages all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives while adhering to PMO standards for scope, schedule and budget management.
• Demonstrates a functional acumen to support how solutions will address stakeholder needs while aligning to best practices; demonstrates expertise in scope planning and management and requirements elicitation and management.
• Prepares estimates and detailed project plans for all phases of assigned program or project; manages the day-to-day project activities and resources. Ensures that all project managers are following consistent and standardized processes for these key activities.
• Participates in and/or manages the execution of feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders.
• Monitors, tracks and controls outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables; Effectively manages vendor relationships and resources ensuring adherence to standards and delivery against contractual commitments. Ensures that all project managers are following consistent and standardized processes for these key activities.
• Develops and/or partners with other team members to ensure excellence and timely completion of scope overviews, status reports, project proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences including project teams, sponsors, senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand business needs and business analysts as they identify and document key requirements, objectives and outcomes for strategic projects to maintain alignment and position projects and programs for success.

Exemplifies the following essential values of the Academy:

• Teamwork: Effective collaboration and team-focus to solve complex problems and drive innovation.
• Empowerment: The authority, information, and skills to make decisions and drive results.
• Accountability: Ownership of process and results that drive decisions and ensure implementation.
• Mindset of Growth/Continuous Learning: Focused on and invested in self and staff development to become more adaptable, making the Academy more agile, innovative, and sustainable.

Travel:

• Up to 15 days per year

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, information technology management, business, project management, or similar.
• 7-10 years of experience managing complex programs that include technology related projects involving custom development or systems/data integration projects.
• 7-10 years of experience in a diverse business environment with demonstrated skills in supporting technology initiatives, project or program management, and systems design.
• 3-5 years of experience as a functional manager for project managers and/or other PMO team members.
• Expertise in project management lifecycle methodology based upon Project Management Institute (PMI) standards.
• Expertise across multiple System Development Methodologies including waterfall, hybrid, agile, SCRUM, etc.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of web technologies, object-oriented programming methodologies, and technology architecture paradigms.
• Strong understanding of technology solution architecture including web applications, database concepts and web service and data integration.
• Excellent documentation and writing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Visio and MS Project
• Experience creating business process, business requirements and specification level detail documentation
• Experience using SharePoint based collaboration tools

Desired:

• Experience in a medical association or membership based not for profit organization
• Experience creating specification documents.
• Experience using O365 based collaboration tools
• Experience providing training to non-technical constituents.
• 3-5 years of experience within an internal or external consulting environment
• Project Management Professional (PMP) and/or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certifications.
• CSM, CSPO, Scaled Agile, and/or Organizational Change Management certifications.

Salary Range: $115,000-$130,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

Join us in shaping AAOS’ success! If this resonates with you, apply today by sharing the following:

• Clearly communicate why you are the ideal candidate for this role, providing specific examples and experiences as proof points.
• Resumes must be accompanied by a cover letter with salary expectations to be considered.

Please note:

This hybrid position is based in Rosemont, Illinois and is open to applicants who are able to commute bi-weekly to this office.

Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of work visas.

JOB CODE: 1000114