Procurement Career Paths

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Location: [Insert location]

Reports to: [Insert name and title of supervisor]

A senior project manager is a project management professional who is responsible for larger and more complex projects. They oversee and implement entire projects from budgeting, hiring team members, sourcing suppliers, planning the project release, and many more.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders and give them regular reports on project activities.
• Ensures that project goals and objectives are on schedule and within the budget.
• Develops project communications and manages and distributes them to employees and involved parties.
• Leads a team through a project from start to finish.
• Helps in business development, like proposals, RFP’s, and estimates.
• Plan, schedule, and track projects and project staff.
• Establishes key metrics and standards for project staff performance.
• Develop risk management procedures to avoid or minimize risks.
• Training, managing, and motivating team members.
• Helps or resolves technical and operational issues.

KPIs for this role

• Project Timeliness: Projects are completed efficiently and effectively under the agreed amount of time or earlier.
• Budget Adherence: Projects are executed within the allocated budget or less.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction: The satisfaction of stakeholders when it comes to project processes and progress.
• Resource Utilization: Knowing where to allocate and how to utilize resources to optimize project processes as efficiently as possible.
• Risk Management: Identifying risks and handling them so they can be avoided or minimized.
• Quality of Deliverables: Ensure good quality for project deliverables.
• Team Performance: Monitor and evaluate team performance to ensure productivity and effectiveness.
• Communication Effectiveness: Excellent verbal and written communication with everyone to avoid miscommunications and misunderstandings.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in project management processes and find ways to improve them.

Key Skills and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in project management, business management, or related field.
• Excellent communication, management, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build strong and positive relationships with persons and groups of people.
• Ability to run effective project meetings, workshops, and conferences.
• Knowledge of different project management methodologies and processes.
• Solid technical understanding and strong analytical skills.

• Collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders and give them regular reports on project activities.
• Ensures that project goals and objectives are on schedule and within the budget.
• Develops project communications and manages and distributes them to employees and involved parties.
• Leads a team through a project from start to finish.
• Helps in business development, like proposals, RFP’s, and estimates.
• Plan, schedule, and track projects and project staff.
• Establishes key metrics and standards for project staff performance.
• Develop risk management procedures to avoid or minimize risks.
• Training, managing, and motivating team members.
• Helps or resolves technical and operational issues.

• Project Management: Excellent project management skills which include prioritization, scheduling, and documentation.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Management and maintenance of supplier relationships, keeping them positive and reliable.
• Technology Proficiency: Strong grasp of hardware and software needed to keep project management efficient and effective.
• Facilitation and Collaboration: Facilitation and collaboration of others in meetings, workshops, and conferences for project purposes.
• Project Management Framework: Knowledge and experience with different project management frameworks and knowing how to utilize this knowledge to keep project management efficient and effective.
• Technical Requirements Analyst: Solid technical understanding and ability to define and refine requirements throughout the lifecycle of a project.
• Prioritization and Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and can anticipate shifting priorities, demands, and timelines.
• Technology Adoption: Ability to quickly learn, understand, and apply new technologies to processes and procedures involving the project.
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing: Can effectively mentor junior team members and share knowledge with them.
• Team Player: Can effectively work and collaborate with anyone for any task or project.

• Project Timeliness: Projects are completed efficiently and effectively under the agreed amount of time or earlier.
• Budget Adherence: Projects are executed within the allocated budget or less.
• Stakeholder Satisfaction: The satisfaction of stakeholders when it comes to project processes and progress.
• Resource Utilization: Knowing where to allocate and how to utilize resources to optimize project processes as efficiently as possible.
• Risk Management: Identifying risks and handling them so they can be avoided or minimized.
• Quality of Deliverables: Ensure good quality for project deliverables.
• Team Performance: Monitor and evaluate team performance to ensure productivity and effectiveness.
• Communication Effectiveness: Excellent verbal and written communication with everyone to avoid miscommunications and misunderstandings.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement in project management processes and find ways to improve them.