Remote Senior Project Manager, Learning and Development / Commercial Sales

Summary

Join Sand Cherry Associates as an experienced Project Manager to lead and support the creation and implementation of a Commercial Sales and Finance training program. This role requires strong project management experience, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and executive-facing skills.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years strong project management experience managing multiple workstreams, ideally in large companies in the Learning and Development space for the Sales and/or Finance functions
• Learning and Development, Human Resources or Project Management experience is necessary
• Knowledge of oil and gas or finance industries strongly preferred
• Consulting experience is important and the ability to be executive facing with numerous stakeholders
• Proven knowledge of project and program management methodology and experience using a variety of project management tools such as Smartsheet and MS Project
• Experience in the L&D function working with Sales and Finance organizations is needed
• Good knowledge of learning management tools or platforms is preferred
• Excellent oral and written communications skills to stakeholders including the ability to influence, strategize and negotiate and present materials succinctly
• Ability to think analytically and process information quickly, presenting it in a succinct and insightful format suitable for executives
• Minimum of 7 years of program/project management experience and experience with formal project management methodology
• Experience working with PMO stakeholders in Learning and Development or Human Resources is necessary
• Knowledge of oil and gas or finance industries strongly preferred
• Management or Business Consultant experience is helpful
• Strong analytical, documentation and reporting skills are necessary
• Direct hands-on proficiency with PPT, Smartsheet or MS Project, and Excel (significant daily use of these tools is necessary)

Responsibilities

• Daily, hands-on program/project management throughout the program life cycle
• Plan, monitor the progress, and drive results of a complex program with multiple workstreams
• Document program and project deliverables utilizing PMI PMP methodology
• Integrate business policies and governance processes into planning & accountability for project roadmaps and strategy
• Establish risk management, escalation paths, and take corrective measurements
• Build and manage business case and budget
• Partner with cross functional client resources to ensure timely, high quality project deliverables
• Facilitate, document, and lead project meetings and manage stakeholders’ communication
• Build regular project status documents for executive leadership
• Identify program KPIs to assess impact
• Coordinate, manage and monitor the workflow of cross-functional teams
• Provide and perform quality assurance checks on project artifacts and deliverables
• Align deliverables (outputs) to the program/project workstream’s “outcome”
• Own overall integrated project plan and manage cross-functional resources, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and achievement of business goal

Benefits

Compensation range of $100-140k