Project/Program Manager II
Project/Program Manager II
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Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a company operating a marketplace for consumers sellers and content creators. It offers merchandise and content purchased for resale from vendors and those offered by third party sellers.
Position: Project/Program Manager II
Location: Seattle WA 98121
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Responsible for the coordination and completion of project/program.
- Oversees all aspects of projects.
- Sets deadlines assigns responsibilities and monitors and summarizes progress of project/program.
- Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project/program.
- May require a bachelors degree and 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Familiar with a variety of the fields concepts practices and procedures.
- Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Performs a variety of tasks.
- Leads and directs the work of others.
- A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department
Story Behind the Need Business Group & Key Projects:
Business Group:
- Team is economic development project management team
- Secure incentives for the business (negotiating and security property and sales tax abatements for infrastructure regions)
- A very busy team very dynamic scope beyond incentive agreements there is a lot of work that is needed to do
- Self-manage a lot of internal workflows including approvals tax sign off finance sign off
- Prescence in these host communities around the US
- Help manage hyper local engagement strategy
- Lean team of 9 for entire US
- A lot of different EDPM (Econ depth project managers) that are in different states team travels significantly. (Not contractor)
Key Projects:
- A lot being worked on internally to streamline their workflows
- Large effort on onboarding team to spreadsheets (need experience building out smartsheet)
- Broader range of more general project manager functions (creating templates centralized filing systems taxonomy)
- This contractor will work on operational program management piece
Typical Day in the Role:
Day to Day (during ramp):
- Take an audit of what is had internally (using at existing filing systems looking at smartsheet and how its built out spending time with different core team members)
- Branching out to key partner teams to understand what their workflows look like
- Identify what the pieces that are missing from PMO perspective
- Help build out that broader framework
- In the beginning will be spending time with a lot of individuals diving into content that is had and put the puzzle together.
- Bringing program manager perspective.
Once Ramped:
- Helping advance smart sheet
- Ensure right view set up
- Leveraging the right information
- Being able to pull in data from other partner teams
- Work with one of consultants to streamline other PM workflows
- Establishing a new filing structure for the team
- Drafting/pushing various templates for external/internal facing workflows
- Developing training resources around smartsheet
Interaction level with team:
- Contractor will report to manager on HM team
- 1 on 1 weekly
- (Sub team) Strategy and integration team call weekly
- Constant touch points based on individual workflows
- As products as produced/assigned there are detailed meetings on these products/inspections or audits of deliverables
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:
Role interesting:
- Work is not a common workstream
- Help scale the team
- Very compelling remit
- Building large data center campuses
- Smart and dynamic team
- Travel opportunities if interested (day trips)
Candidate Requirements:
Leadership Principle:
- Bias for action high velocity decision making
- Earns trust work requires a good rapport with team and partner teams
YOE:
- 4-7 years of experience in the field or in a related area
- Smartsheet experience (at least 2 YOE)
Resume Stand Outs:
- Previous EMPLOEE experience is a LARGE stand out (contract central workdocs client approvers tool specifically)
- Existing AWS experience
- Develop standardized templates or playbooks
- End to end project work flows
- Tracking systems
- Smartsheet experience
- Centralized management system that they created
- Cross functional timelines
- Automation experience (automate workflows)
Top 3 must-have hard skills
- Project management software management experience and how it works
- Technical writing draft clear and concise documentation (emails/templates)
- Building frameworks (create process mapping and optimization)
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Employment Type
Full-time
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