Bilingual PMO Project Manager

Motion Recruitment - Tampa, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Tampa, FL

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Bilingual PMO Project Manager role at a global bank in Tampa, FL, is a contract position with a strong possibility of extension or conversion to full-time employment. This position requires managing multiple projects simultaneously while working onsite 2-3 days per week. The role involves utilizing best practice PMO methodologies to ensure projects are delivered within budget and meet stakeholder needs, while also fostering collaboration among various teams.

Responsibilities

• Manages multi-faceted projects or multiple projects at the same time.
• Organizes new challenges and drives business results.
• Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers' needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
• Drives end results of the project as a representative of the business.
• Works closely with End User, Technology, and other Organizations to define a project scope and objectives for project members.
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
• Assesses project risk potentials and discovers potential problems before they occur.
• Applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.
• Defines and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled.
• Identifies and where required amends the approach to the context and constraints of each project.
• Possesses the knowledge, skills and experience to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming.
• Articulates problems, brings the right people together to solve problems and knows when the problem has been properly addressed and closed.
• Promotes partner involvement through effectively communicating project status upward and to the Client.
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues.
• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Owns all management reports on a given engagement.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3-4 years of project management experience in a financial services environment.
• Bilingual in Spanish.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipate operational and tactical risks and track them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications (with advanced experience in Excel), MS Project, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP certification strongly preferred.
• Six Sigma a plus.

Benefits

• Contract role with strong possibility of extension or conversion to full-time employment.