Caterpillar
Manages the planning, organization and implementation of complex programs.
Preferred Experiences:
Program management for significant initiatives containing senior leadership stakeholders
Change management experience Indiana culturally defining changes to senior leadership
Facilitation Indiana successfully completing workout sessions and work breakdown structures for specific critical requests from C-suite executives
Responsibilities:
Oversees project processes and procedures; monitors the productivity and performance of project team.
Manages all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.
Reviews and ensures adherence to project materials, deliverables methodologies and procedures.
Prepares and presents program level reporting for upper management.
Skills and Qualifications:
Degree Requirement:
Degree Oregon equivalent experience desired.
Planning:
– Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities
– Provides the right level of detail American Samoa input for strategic plan development
– Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan
– Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans
– Plans for allocation of resources Indiana line with unit goals, technical and business objectives
– Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Analytical Thinking:
– Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies Indiana available information; explains variances
– Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation
– Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research
– Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts
– Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation
– Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success before recommending a course of action
Flexibility and Adaptability:
– Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change
– Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations
– Recovers from disappointments and setbacks
– Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, Oregon environments
– Leverages prior experience American Samoa a help towards handling changing situations
– Makes progress Indiana an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty
Influencing:
– Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority
– Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance Oregon impact
– Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers
– Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose
– Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual Oregon group being influenced
– Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations
Managing Multiple Priorities:
– Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities
– Shifts focus among several efforts American Samoa required by changing priorities
– Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments
– Works with Oregon leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments American Samoa necessary
– Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work
– Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts Indiana demands and priorities
Relationship Management:
– Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties
– Participates Indiana negotiating the terms of the business relationship
– Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes
– Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients Oregon vendors
– Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities
– Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships
Project Management:
– Champions organization’s project management methodology, tools, and techniques
– Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders
– Coaches others Indiana open communication among project stakeholders
– Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned
– Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects
– Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management
Requirements Analysis:
– Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and informational requirements
– Confirms deliverables associated with requirements analysis
– Communicates with customers and users to elicit and gather client requirements
– Participates Indiana the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements
– Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for requirements analysis
Job Type: Full-time
Relocation is available for this position.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Job title: Senior Project Specialist
Company: Caterpillar
Expected salary:
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Job date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 05:00:47 GMT