Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cummins Inc. is hiring a Senior Project Manager in Sales to lead projects from inception through completion. The role oversees project planning, budgets, risks, resources, stakeholder communication, and team development, with a focus on power generation projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead multiple projects from inception through completion, ensuring objectives, deliverables, and performance goals are clearly defined and achieved
- Facilitate project planning sessions with internal and business stakeholders to establish project scope, objectives, performance goals, timelines, and key milestones
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, tracking progress against established timelines, milestones, and performance expectations
- Identify, track, and resolve project issues and risks, collaborating with team members and other partners to identify effective solutions and alternatives
- Plan and monitor project budgets, conducting research and analysis to support project planning, decision-making, and successful execution
- Monitor and communicate project status to project teams, Project Sponsors, and key stakeholders while maintaining accurate project notes, databases, measures, and records
- Identify and assign appropriate resources to project tasks, ensuring the right expertise and support are available to successfully deliver project objectives
- Guide and coach project team members, providing developmental feedback, sharing lessons learned, and leveraging experiences from other teams to continuously improve project outcomes
Skills
- Strong financial acumen to interpret key financial indicators and use them to support sound business and project decisions
- Excellent communication and audience-adaptation skills to translate complex or technical information into clear, relevant messages for different stakeholders and audiences
- A strong customer-focused mindset to build trusted relationships, understand the customer perspective, and develop solutions that better meet customer needs and support business results
- The ability to manage complexity and conflict by navigating large amounts of information, competing priorities, and challenging situations to identify effective solutions
- Strong planning and project management skills to balance project scope, schedules, resources, and priorities while ensuring expected outcomes are fully realized
- Effective risk and issue management skills to identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate project risks while proactively resolving issues that may impact successful delivery
- Strong resource, schedule, and scope management capabilities to effectively manage budgets, headcount, timelines, deliverables, and project requirements
- An adaptable, collaborative, and inclusive approach that values different perspectives and cultures while working effectively across teams and stakeholder groups
- College, university, or equivalent degree required
- Intermediate level of relevant work experience, including team leadership experience, required
- Knowledge of power generation products, ability to interface with contractors, consulting engineers, vendors, knowledge of codes, knowledge of technical documentation, and strong research capabilities needed
- Candidate must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Must possess strong organizational and planning skills and be capable of multi-tasking on a variety of complex tasks
- Must be able to manage databases and reporting mechanisms for project milestones
- Must be data- and process-oriented/driven
- Must be able to work in a team environment with Sales, Production, Purchasing, Project Administration, Engineering and Service Team both within and outside of their account
- Must possess a good understanding of project financials
- Must quickly be able to build rapport with external stakeholders - client and trade partners
- Ability to review and understand design submittals preferred
- Previous experience in a new construction setting preferred
Benefits
- Off-site remote work
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