What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Project Manager position at Verra Mobility?
Who we are...
Verra Mobility Commercial Services is a global leader in smart mobility, creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for millions of vehicles around the world through connectivity with hundreds of tolling and issuing authorities. As a future focused organization, we are looking for people who want to create relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow ensuring more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily.
Culture
Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.
Position Overview:
As a Sr Project Manager you will play a key role in providing world class support to our customers and clients by managing business and technology programs/projects and ensuring they are delivered in a timely manner. No challenge will be too big, and no issue will go unsolved! You are responsible for tracking the status of all programs/projects within the assigned business by working with different stakeholders, managing the expectations of customers, providing status reports to management, documenting all issues and risks and driving them to closure. You will create and manage project plans, communicate schedules with different stakeholders and ensure successful delivery of all projects and tickets. You will work in a highly collaborative environment with a team that is geographically distributed. You will adhere to software development methodologies accepted by the organization. The candidate should have excellent analytical and interpersonal abilities and always be looking to improve the process and bring in efficiencies. Performs other duties as required.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Organize, attend and participate in stakeholder meetings.
- Direct and lead day-to-day communications, risk escalations, and project communications
- Provide on-demand and scheduled project updates
- Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings.
- Ensure projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project.
- Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.
- Support in developing project strategies and discovery
- Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.
- Ensure project deadlines are met.
- Provide administrative support as needed.
- Undertake project tasks as required.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience required.
- Minimum 8-10 years of project management experience in a highly collaborative IT environment required.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required.
- Must be proficient in estimating and sizing development efforts required.
- Experienced with Office products like Excel, PowerPoint to generate reports and dashboards required.
- Experience in IT release planning and coordination of release activities required.
- Experienced with tools like SharePoint, Azure DevOps, Jira preferred.
- Strong problem-resolution and analytical skills required.
- Strong software development lifecycle familiarity (SDLC).
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.
- Flexible and adaptable in regard to learning, task assignments, and learning new technologies required.
- Agile Scrum Software Development practices and tools, preferred.
