Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Jeppesen ForeFlight is seeking a customer-facing Sr Project Manager to manage multiple customer software implementation projects across the Americas. The role involves effective planning, scheduling, and mentoring junior Project Managers while ensuring successful project delivery and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Applies project/program management and customer guiding experience while learning and adapting to Jeppesen’s best practices framework to deliver project goals
• Create and maintain project and program schedules by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, deliverables, customer requirements, task dependencies, and critical paths
• Provides leadership, direction and integrates activities with other departments, Boeing and Jeppesen vendors, and partners to ensure successful implementation and support
• Anticipates and identifies Risks and Issues that may impact implementation and develops and implements mitigation and corrective actions
• Ensures projects remains focused on key objectives and goals
• Using a variety of media, clearly conveys information and ideas to internal and external stakeholders in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message
• Ensure proper change management procedures are followed to ensure scope is managed and additional work is captured and appropriately billed to customer

Skills

• 10+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 7+ years project management experience
• 5+ years of customer / client facing experience
• Ability to travel 20-40% of the time
• Spanish fluency is a requirement
• Experience managing complex technical software implementation projects to external customers
• Strong business acumen and relationship skills needed to build partnerships with customers, stakeholders, and peers
• Aviation industry expertise, ideally in the area of crew management solutions
• Experience applying Scrum and Agile principles to improve project delivery
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, including MS Project; Primavera experience a plus
• Multilingualism is an asset (French etc.)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with Employer paid health premiums
• Open PTO Policy
• 401(k) with up to 10% company matching and immediate vesting
• 12 Weeks Paid Parent Leave
• Flight Training Rewards

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