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CARFAX · 4 days ago
Senior Project Manager
Centreville, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Be responsible for all aspects of project management and agile development team ceremonies.
Develop and refine project plans specifying goals, staffing, scheduling, risks, and contingency plans.
Lead large, multi-location and virtual groups of multi-disciplinary teams.
Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes.
Manage dependencies across teams and collaborate with other project managers and team leaders to ensure overall project is completed within plan parameters.
Ensure a common understanding across stakeholders and team members by setting and managing expectations.
Gather, articulate, and represent project requirements for our agile software development teams.
Anticipate and measure project performance and progress using various quantitative tools and techniques to identify and quantify any variances, perform corrective actions, and communicate to stakeholders.
Proactively identify and plan for risks as well as implement approved actions and workarounds to mitigate risk events.
Lead cross-functional assessments for projects in the Concept phase and drive the conversion of conceptual ideas into actionable and clearly understood project deliverables and timelines.
Generate key project deliverables and facilitate their review.
Facilitate cross-functional team meetings, sometimes with C level executives to ensure communication is clear and teams are aligned.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's degree with a minimum 10 years of relevant work experience focusing on project management
Demonstrated ability to execute on tasks that are sometimes vaguely defined using prior experience, analytical skills, and available research
Thorough experience delivering projects using an agile methodology
Experience managing remote project teams of 10 or more or complex multi-disciplinary projects that involve multiple project teams
Ability to work with and communicate, both written and verbally across multiple job levels, including C level executives
Ability to mentor junior project managers in the use of proven project management tools and practices
Ability to travel approximately 10% of the time (when allowed based on current restrictions)
Preferred
Project Management Institute (PMI) certification such as the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification through the Scrum Alliance
Experience with the Atlassian Suite – Confluence/Jira
Company
CARFAX
CARFAX provides vehicle history for used car buyers, sellers, and the automotive industry.
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (6)
2022 (11)
2021 (27)
2020 (34)
Funding
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Head of Growth
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