Project Coordinator

Seneca Resources - Katy, TX

Full-time

Katy, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Project Coordinator will play a pivotal role in supporting the business project management organization by ensuring alignment on the status and key details of the company's critical strategic priorities. This position requires a highly analytical individual who can effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, executives, and third parties. The Project Coordinator will be responsible for communicating risks and complexities within the project portfolio to an executive audience, leading meetings, updating work plans, and creating new process flows that consider downflow impacts to ensure new processes are sustainable and deliver the intended outcomes. In this role, the Project Coordinator will utilize and create data and analytics to address ambiguous issues, facilitating data-driven decision-making in partnership with Finance and other support groups as necessary. The individual will work closely with Finance to develop business cases and key financial metrics that support various initiatives. Additionally, the Project Coordinator will be tasked with creating presentations that drive work forward and gain alignment on critical issues, often requiring the art of storytelling within these presentations. Supporting the Director of the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), the Project Coordinator will identify and design interventions and programs aimed at improving the health of the project portfolio and strategic initiatives. This position demands a proactive approach to problem-solving and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment, while also managing multiple projects under tight timelines and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the business project management organization to align on status and key details of the company’s critical strategic priorities.
• Communicate risks and complexities within the project portfolio to an executive audience.
• Lead meetings, update work plans, and create new process flows that take into consideration downflow impacts to ensure new processes are sustainable and deliver the intended outcomes.
• Use/create data and analytics to solve ambiguous issues to help with data-driven decision making, partnering with Finance and other support groups as needed.
• Work with Finance to create business cases and key financial metrics in support of the initiatives.
• Create presentations to help drive work forward and gain alignment on critical issues which often will require the art of storytelling within presentations.
• Support the Director of EPMO in identifying and designing interventions and programs that will help improve the health of our portfolio and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3-5+ years of project management, reporting experience, and/or consultant experience preferred.
• Highly analytical and can effectively work in groups to use critical thinking to problem solve (quantitative, conceptual, analytical).
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills required.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to understand new concepts quickly and work in a fast-paced dynamic work environment.
• Ability to influence and grow internal and external networks.
• Ability to work within tight timelines, deadlines and on multiple projects.
• Works well in ambiguous situations and with minimal supervision.