Senior Project Manager
ASCAP
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 12/7/2017 12:13:00 PM PST
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Job Description
Job Description:
The ASCAP Transformation Management Office (TMO) was formed in early 2015 with the purpose of facilitating the transformation of ASCAP to meet the future needs of ASCAP's members and licensing partners. The TMO is responsible for coordinating the execution of ASCAP's numerous near term and long term strategic initiatives covering both core business growth and new business launches. This coordination includes managing all aspects of implementing the portfolio of strategic initiatives across the products and plans, and ensuring initiatives are delivered within the defined scope, quality, time and cost requirements.
As a TMO Project Manager you will support initiative teams with skills in communication, process excellence, project management, facilitation, problem solving, accelerating transformation and value creation to drive toward required outcomes. You will schedule, manage, and track progress for a program of projects with similarly desired outcomes and interdependencies. You will also identify and facilitate the resolution of issues and impediments, report program and project status, and assist in the preparation of status dashboards that will be used to communicate project health to both executives and the ASCAP Board of Directors. As a TMO Project Manager will serve as the communication hub for each initiative; specifically you will be responsible for connecting the dots amongst departments and initiatives, identify issues, communicate to all initiative stakeholders and follow up with each work stream within an initiative. As part of the TMO, you will collaborate with team members and other program managers to continuously improve process and grow best practices that can be utilized throughout the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The TMO Project Manager will be responsible for the following:
• Define project objectives & deliverables for all projects assigned
• Identify stakeholders
• Define working teams
• Create Project Charters
• Develop the detailed plans & timelines
• Manage project action log
• Organize & facilitate all project meetings
• Capture and memorialize key decisions and assure team members are aligned on next steps
• Drive the project teams to meet the individual project objectives within the defined timeframes
• Actively track project actuals against budget on a regular basis
• Identify & escalate budget related issues promptly
• Identify risks proactively and manage issues as they arise
• Manage all changes to scope, cost and schedule and identify areas of impact across the program
• Responsible for all key project documentation
• Responsible for communication to all project stakeholders
Requirements:
• PMP certification and Bachelor's degree
• 5-7 years experience with project management
• Extensive experience with project management software
• Extensive experience working with Product Management and Design teams
• Experience driving change through effective project management
• Experience facilitating and working with cross-functional teams from all areas of the business
• Experience with JIRA, Smartsheet, PowerPoint, Visio, Lucid Charts and/or other presentation & reporting tools
• Experience with and exposure to Agile Development environments desired, but not required
• Must have excellent multi-tasking, organizational, written and verbal skills
• Must have high standards for completeness and accuracy of all work products as well as an obsessive attention to detail
Besides providing a unique and dynamic work environment, there are a few other reasons you should consider ASCAP in your career planning. We also offer generous benefit options that are comprehensive and provide the flexibility that most employees want and need. These health care and financial plan options include the following:
• A choice of either HMO or Point-of-Service (POS) medical and dental plans
• Immediate eligibility for 401(k) participation with match
• Generous time-off policy
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Long term disability insurance
• Basic life insurance, supplemental and dependent life insurance options
• Employer paid retirement savings program