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Acuity Brands · 2 days ago
Senior Project Manager
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$75K/yr - $168K/yr
7+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Project Management: Lead and manage high-visibility projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams including Finance, Accounting, Tax/Treasury, IT, and Operations. Lead the specific project planning and coordination from (1) work breakdown, (2) scheduling, (3) risk management, (4) budgeting (resources & expenses), and (5) communications. Champion needed change management activities. Responsibilities include (1) defining and gaining alignment on objectives, scope, and structure & (2) execution to acquire results on-time and on-budget.
Collaboration & Communication : Build lasting relationships based on mutual respect, to engage project team members, and to positively influence others to work collaboratively and achieve goals. Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with our technology-focused counterparts and business leaders to ensure seamless integration of principles and to drive a unified approach. Facilitate discussions, brainstorms, alignment, and conflict management. Adapt communication styles for all levels of the team including executive leadership.
End-to-End Process Optimization : Streamline and enhance processes by defining goals & objectives, identifying the work, identifying and solving for bottlenecks & inefficiencies, aligning the work with roles and responsibilities, documenting each process step, building in monitoring mechanisms to enable quality assurance, testing and refining, and leveraging technology to further increase productivity.
Leadership & Business Knowledge: Act as a project leader by demonstrating business acumen, operating autonomously, and demonstrating managerial courage when engaging with senior leaders. Take initiative to drive projects to their objectives.
Facilitation/ Conflict Management: Facilitate broad meetings or support facilitated workshops to ensure progress and achieve project objectives. When conflict arises, act as a mediator to diffuse tensions among stakeholder groups and identify a resolution.
Problem Solving: Ability to identify and structure problems, prioritize issues, develop solutions, plan and conduct work, process information, and place information into a relevant context or framework.
Change management: Understand, facilitate, and lead change management efforts.
Standardization: Lead and/or collaborate on developing and implementing standard work in project management and/or disciplines of the projects.
Performance Tracking: Develop metrics and KPIs to monitor the success and impact of the projects across processes impacted. Regularly assess the service improvements, efficiency gains, and cost savings achieved.
Risk Management: Anticipate and mitigate potential challenges related to service requirements, traceability, data integrity and timely execution. Identify constraints and potential failure points to develop proactive solutions that minimize disruptions.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor's degree (finance or accounting background preferred)
7+ years of project management experience
Problem solving and process improvement experience
Communication (verbal, written) Experience
Cross-functional Collaboration Experience
High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, Power Automate, & Word) and Smartsheet (preferred)
Preferred
Finance or accounting degree and/or background preferred
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred
Continuous Improvement or Lean Six Sigma Belt Certified preferred
Company
Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands is the North American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of lighting and building management solutions.
10,001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (1)
2021 (8)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2001-12-07IPO· nyse:AYI
Leadership Team
Neil Ashe
CEO
Gavin Platt
Head of User Experience & Design
Recent News
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