Project Manager

The Project Manager for the DTE Infrastructure is a role within the Technology Program Management Office reporting directly to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Portfolio Manager, with dotted line matrixed reporting to the DTE Network & Collaboration Leader. The Project Manager will have execution delivery responsibilities for the Infrastructure Network team. Building on the current Network and Real Estate build-out strategy, the team will design, develop and deliver an implementation program to upgrade End Of Life networks including both Wired and Wireless. The Project Manager will be charged with hands-on management of all PMO activities and ensuring accurate status reporting across all network upgrade and Real Estate Build outs and driving the project outcomes.

The Project Manager, is required to have relevant PMO-related experience specifically in Network upgrades and Real Estate builds. This experience will be critical in understanding both the process challenges and the technology being implemented, which will help the Project Manager facilitate successful delivery outcomes.

The Project Manager will ensure that the project is in alignment with other inter-dependent projects, programs and stakeholders.

This includes responsibility for:
Program and Workstream Governance
Scope Management
Schedule Management
Resource Management
Financial Management
Risk and Issue Management (including cross-functional impact assessment/mitigation)
Dependency Management (both within the program and externally)
Integration Management
Stakeholder Management
Communications and Change Management
Business Adoption and Acceptance / Client Satisfaction
The Project Manager should expect to be heavily involved in presenting and monitoring status, anticipating challenges, unblocking issues, managing dependencies and providing business sponsor and stakeholder transparency for the program through accurate and timely management reporting. The Project Manager may also be responsible for collaboration with project managers from external consulting teams to ensure successful joint outcomes and accurate management reporting.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Knowledge and Experience
A minimum of 8 years of experience in Project Management
Demonstrated proficiency in managing large-scale, complex projects
Training and experience in Agile practices
Experience working specifically with network infrastructure upgrades (wireless and wired) and Real estate build outs, including network and end user computing, projects.
Leadership
Demonstrated leadership presence and drive
Excellent presentation skills and ability to clearly and succinctly express ideas
Experience facilitating project meetings and effectively and respectfully holding team members accountable for status, deliverables and the timely escalation of blockers
Unfailing commitment to representing project status in an accurate and timely manner, weekly or in near real time when changes occur
Successful track record of managing collaborative projects with vendors and packaged software

Collaboration
Exemplify a highly collaborative mindset and actively facilitate team communication
Build strong relationships with peers and colleagues across the Technology organization, and with key business clients
Actively anticipate, track and plan for risks and issues, dependencies, resourcing and contingencies
Communicate status, risks and issues in a direct and timely manner
Escalate issues in a manner that is effective and direct

Innovation
Demonstrate an analytical, objective, and strategic mindset and a drive to learn new technologies
Analyze processes and systems, identifying potential for change
Possess an understanding of technology solutions implemented in the past

Skills/Tools
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Experience practicing project feature prioritization and backlog grooming methods
Experience with Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) tools and reports
Demonstrate ability to accurately track and forecast financials and provide accrual information to Finance
Understanding of the principles of finance and cost benefit analysis (e.g., capitalized, amortized and expensed costs, opportunity costs, soft and hard dollar benefits, payback, ROI, ROE, NPV, etc.)

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Biopharmaceutical or biotechnology experience
Experience with high-growth stage companies
Agile CSM, PSM or similar certification and hands-on experience
PMP or Prince2 certification