Position: Senior Project Manager
Company: Softjourn
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**About the project:**
This platform is built for companies looking for a better way to pay business expenses and optimize their financial management. Softjorun helps project provide modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business Visa cards​ and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control expenses — all in one seamless interface.


**Requirements:**
- Being an agent of change: possessing demonstrated experience and skills in promoting and supporting a new way of doing something within the company, whether it's the use of a new process, the adoption of a new management structure or the transformation of an old business model to a new one;
- Possessing the knowledge of project/program metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and forecasting;
- Excellent time management skills (no “I have no time” in the lexicon);
- Having a vision of the process as a system and understanding of its relations;
- Having knowledge of how to follow the process in ambiguous situations;
- Having a business-based vision;
- Being excellent in working with stakeholders’ expectations (including Identifying hidden expectations);
- Possessing an advanced level of communication (active listening, speech clarity, adapting the communication style according to the audience);
- Being able to improve the planning process within the department;
- Advanced level of risk management.;
- Proven experience and skills in getting things done based on the stakeholders’ expectations and having all the stakeholders satisfied;
- Proven ability to identify gaps in PM knowledge and remove them;
- High level of adaptiveness to changing industry standards and following the industry best practices;
- Upper-Intermediate English level and higher.
 

**Will be a plus:**
- Program management experience.
 
**Responsibilities:**
- Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business;
- Work closely with Delivery and Account Manager, cross-functional teams, and Project Managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives;
- Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives;
- Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders;
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence;
- Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, and tools;
- Facilitate the procurement of relevant resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes;
- Chair the project management team meetings;
- Monitor staff performance and complete performance reviews;
- Demonstrate business acumen to support how solutions will address client goals while maintaining alignment with industry best practices;
- Manage project scope and changes;
- Deliver appropriate and effective executive-level communication with internal and external stakeholders;
- Act as an internal quality control validator for the project;
- Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with project and program stakeholders, and sponsors;
- Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project and program team;
- Manage project and program issues and risks to mitigate the impact on the baseline;
- Foster the team's professional development in order to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods, and best practices.