Job Description:

Short Description:

Client is looking for a Lead in the PMO to drive and manage from a senior leadership perspective the Release Management and Continuous Improvement discipline.

Complete Description:
Employment Type: Contract w2/1099/C2C

The Continuous Improvement Manager facilitates and manages the process, planning, and execution of quality/improvement efforts for the organization. Ensures initiatives are aligned with corporate strategic goals and timelines. Implementing goal alignment activities with cross functional teams. Manages a portfolio of project directed at reducing waste and improving quality to provide greater value. Works with department heads and other team members to identify bottlenecks, redundancy, and disconnects in process.

In addition to this lead in the PMO will be responsible for conducting regular release meetings with multiple disciplines in Client to ensure delivery of a non-time product.

Ensures follow-up on improvement events are completed, including scheduling, and facilitating on-going status reviews with all vested parties

This role will be responsible for driving the culture of sustainable continuous improvement, operational excellence and delivering business expectations

Delivering and monitoring quantifiable KPIs including Waste Reduction, Efficiency Improvements, Quality Pass Rate, and process controls.

The resource must have a proven track record of SDLC completion, excellent understanding and ability to implement project management methodologies, proven experience with vendor management and must be well-versed in district policies and procedures

Lead the management, implementation, and reporting of these large and complex initiatives by working through a team of program leaders to develop roadmaps, plans/timelines, and helping to determine staffing decisions based on current organizational capabilities and future needs ensuring cross-functional alignment and collaboration

Collaborates with other department managers and directors to prioritize work, set deadlines and assign resources for standardized processes to be upheld throughout the SDLC

Ensures project governance, roles, responsibilities, and outcomes are maintained and improved upon by supporting the Client program

Delivers value by managing a portfolio of work for customers while offering strategy and alignment for success of the PMO

Drives consistent communication and project tracking across a portfolio of work for stakeholder visibility and internal awareness

Work directly with the vendor and stakeholders to reduce confusion and manage expectations

Ensure a consistent reporting and daily management cadence as well as accountabilities from and roles / responsibilities of key stakeholders

Monitors compliance to project management standards, policies, procedures and templates

Successfully leads project management transformation/change management initiatives

Escalation point for all direct reports, senior management and directors

Applies project management methodology, best practices and standards