Project Manager

Our client is a leader in the Automotive Industry and seeking a Sr. PM for long term, Multi-Year role.

This role is in Torrance, CA and is hybrid with 2 days/week onsite.

This role manages all aspects of the project: vendor contracts, SOWs, scope, budgets, resources, day-to-day team tasks/workload, timelines, and deliverables. The Sr. PM will work closely with Marketing, internal IT teams, business partners and vendors.

• Act as liaison between business stakeholders and IT, ensuring all parties are aligned throughout the life of the project
• Lead, guide, and support project teams: help prioritize workload; manage scope; remove roadblocks; propose and implement solutions; lead agile ceremonies
• Facilitates meetings and discussions
• Provide written project updates to management
• Create project plans and utilize Jira to manage projects
• Manage budget, resources, deliverables, and risks

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with ability to succinctly present technical concepts and solutions to non-technical audiences
• Leadership
• Strategic and critical thinking
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Attention to detail
• Risk management and mitigation

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience working with Marketing and other business stakeholders
• Understanding of martech
• Delivered cross-functional projects that involve multiple stakeholders and agencies
• Implemented Agile or hybrid Agile-Waterfall approaches on projects
• MS Office proficiency (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Experience in Confluence and Jira
• Knowledge of SDLC
• 7 years of hands-on experience delivering IT and/or technical projects

• 5+ years’ experience delivering marketing projects that include one or more of the following:

o Salesforce ecosystem and products

o customer data platform (CDP)

o data privacy management software, e.g., cookie and consent management

o B2C applications

o analytics

• Successfully led and delivered complex, technical enterprise projects
• Experience working with Procurement, Legal. Project Management Office (PMO), and Enterprise Architecture
• Ability to write business requirements when necessary
• SAFe and/or Scrum certified
• Familiar with Waterfall approach
• Automotive industry experience