Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description:

You may know Penske for our big yellow trucks. But did you know we're an industry-leading technology innovation company? At Penske we have a 50-year history of leading the transportation and supply-chain industry, delivering world-class and award-winning technology solutions. And, it starts with our associates. No matter what your skills or technology stack, our IT team is for you. You'll work and grow alongside great people and on really cool projects.

We inspire our IT experts to push the boundaries, create possibilities, be innovative, and, most of all, to have fun. Ultimately, you'll help develop and ensure our technology solutions keep our company and our customers moving forward. Do you have what IT takes?

Summary Statement:

As a Senior Technical Project Manager you will provide end to end technical project management for our largest and most strategic enterprise-wide technology projects to enable us to continue to lead the transportation services industry.

What you will be doing:

As a Penske Senior Technical Project Manager you will be responsible for managing multiple IT projects simultaneously , focusing on the most strategic and / or largest projects in the company that have a significant technology component. You will manage all program activity, budget and resources to ensure the program remains on schedule, within budget, and that no rework will be required.

Penske Responsibilities:

- Understand, support, apply, and maintain the Penske Project Management Methodology, documentation and tools.

- Full life cycle project management (initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing) to support waterfall and agile development projects.

- Project Planning duties include discovery and framing of solutions, requirements gathering, and business case and charter development through understanding internal and external customer needs.

- Project requirements include working directly with IT and Business process owners to define the specific project requirements and deliverables.

- Work closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and product owners to distill technical requirements into easily actionable user stories or specifications.

- Acts as the project architect to ensure the various cross functional elements of the solution work effectively together.

- Development and management of work breakdown structure along with key milestone measurements and baseline delivery timelines. Efficiently planning for and prioritize needed resources based on deliverable dates, scope, and goals

- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path deliverables.

- Effectively communicate the program status, scope changes, issues and risks to leadership.

- Responsible for the development project budget that captures all expenditures for the entire set of project resources.

- Participate in agile ceremonies including framing & discovery, sprint planning, daily stand ups, product demonstrations, and retrospective meetings.

- Monitor all program activity, budget and resources to ensure the program remains on schedule, within budget, and that no rework will be required.

- Facilitate project working sessions, project update meetings and steering committee report outs

- Follow up on project related issues with responsible resources all the way through to resolution and holding all project related resources accountable to agreed upon deliverables.

- Monitoring risks and scoping creep on each project in order to preemptively address potential issues

- Manage all project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables to internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for ongoing project status report outs, and project measurement systems.

- Set up & maintain the use of appropriate tools for project management documentation for effective tracking and facilitate sharing of project information.

- Effectively close projects down upon completion of final deployment and post deployment support.

- Complete project after action reviews to identify process improvement opportunities

- In a Management Capacity you will;
Work with leadership to ensure project alignment to…