Senior Project Manager Job at defi AUTO, LLC
defi AUTO, LLC Tallahassee, FL 32301
$103,000 - $130,000 a year
**This position can be remote**
About defi SOLUTIONS:
It’s an exciting time to join defi!
defi SOLUTIONS partners with captives, banks, credit unions, and finance companies of all types and sizes to allow lenders to focus and transform their operations. The company’s comprehensive suite of originations, servicing, and analytics solutions together with technology-enabled processing services creates a flexible, configurable, and scalable platform that addresses lenders and borrowers ever-evolving needs. defi SOLUTIONS combines the expertise of defi SOLUTIONS and the former Sagent Auto Lending with the backing of Warburg Pincus, Bain Capital Ventures and Fiserv.
Position Purpose:
defi SOLUTIONS is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager for its Project Management Office. This staff-level position will support day-to-day execution of project management activities, including ensuring predictable, consistent, and successful delivery of detailed project plans, coordinating, and monitoring small, medium, and large scale engagements, managing client expectations and deliverables, and meeting budgetary guidelines.
The project manager will provide the practical knowledge, personal experience and effective business acumen needed to execute project management in accordance with enterprise standards, as well as producing the metrics and reporting necessary to ensure defi’s product development and delivery is aligned to its business strategy.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Provide experienced project management applying the appropriate knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to efficiently manage the different project phases, including initiating, planning, executing, implementing and closing.
- Employ personal experience, subject matter expertise and lessons learned from previous engagements to define key project deliverables and milestones and identify the tasks that must be completed for each to achieve the desired project outcome.
- Develop detailed project plans that define project scope, schedule and budget, working across departments to ensure all requirements are satisfied within the confines of the project and budgetary restrictions.
- Work with key stakeholders to create integrated project plans focused on attaining the outlined goals and manage project progress and budget to ensure key milestones are achieved.
- Compare and report actual performance against planned/scheduled performance.
- Manage and review the work of third-party vendors or partners to ensure acceptable deliverables.
- Ensure that issues are proactively identified and resolved effectively to keep the project on track.
- Execute efficient internal and client-facing communications with all levels within the team.
- Continuously monitor and report on progress of project to stakeholders and present routine reports defining project progress, risks, issues and resolutions.
- Create and maintain prescribed project-related artifacts in accordance with enterprise PDLC standards and governance model.
- Provide presentations and written and verbal updates to executive management.
- Assist internal teams in preparing new project requests for the portfolio governance process - through concept, business case and approval phases.
- Execute project management work in approved enterprise tools, processes, templates, standards, and reporting formats.
- Complete other tasks as assigned.
The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job, and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities.
Required Qualifications/ Skills:
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum five (5) years’ project management experience
- Prior leadership experience; coaching and mentoring colleagues, teams, product sponsors, managers, and other stakeholders.
- Possess the ability to execute the day-to-day project management activities in accordance with defined Project Management Office rules, tools, processes, and standards.
- Effective project management skills, including planning, organizing and decision-making, delegation, teamwork, negotiation, conflict management, adaptability, and stress tolerance.
- Advanced analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills to resolve complex business problems.
- Able to handle multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities with broad guidance and without direct supervision.
- Build trust-based relationships with and influence other functional areas.
- Experience crafting and articulating effective presentations to various audiences, including executive leadership.
- Proven thought leader who thinks strategically, communicates with influence, and builds trust-based relationships.
- Proven experience operating in large, complex business environments, delivering mission critical services.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with MS Project and/or other project planning software
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), or equivalent.
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
- Thought leader – brings new thinking to challenge existing operating models and processes and is excited with the prospect of driving change.
- Strong communicator – able to communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple, clear and concise manner; excellent at communicating for influence (written, verbal, and presentation)
- Relationship-builder – skilled at building trust-based relationships across teams and with subordinates, peers, teams, and other business functions.
- Driven – a results-oriented personality with a proven track record of delivering, having the character, energy, and determination to drive successful outcomes.
- Sound decision-maker – the ability to work with broad guidance, manage multiple priorities, and make well-reasoned decisions, operating in an environment with ambiguity and/or incomplete information.
- Accountable – takes ownership of results; has a firm sense of responsibility for outcomes, with solid program management skills.
- Fast learner – builds business knowledge quickly, and demonstrates learning agility (i.e., flexible, adapts quickly to change); able to quickly develop a sound working understanding of complex environments and situations across various areas of the organization.
Travel Requirements:
Business travel may be required; amount dependent upon business need and employee location.
defi SOLUTIONS is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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