Senior Project Manager - IT

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

The most advanced companies in the world turn to VMware to manage, grow, and transform their business. When you work here, youre connected to a global community of innovative, empowered employees working together to solve the most critical technology challenges. The World Wide Consulting Centers (WWCC) aims at providing a centralized world class professional services delivery through the a global BU with co-located sites that drives adoption and improved margin at scale.

As a Senior Project Manager, you have the opportunity to join our growing project Migrations and assessment team . Become a member of our collaborative and supportive work environment and help us drive innovation!

What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

- As a Sr. Project Manager, you will apply and further grow your experience in technical project management and customer-facing positions to plan, coordinate, track and manage the project(s) to successful completion in both a local and virtual environment.

- Leading the coordination of our customer environment assessments and migration activities.

- You will work directly with resource managers, technical staff and business subject matter experts to orchestrate project delivery to ensure projects are delivered and executed in alignment with the overall project plan, driving customer outcomes, and customer satisfaction. This will give you the chance to shine and demonstrate your leadership, interpersonal and organizational skills as well as your business acumen.

- Within 90 days of employment, you will successfully develop and maintain project plans including charter, scope, work breakdown structures, estimates, resource plans, budget, task dependencies, schedule, open issues, risk assessment, management and mitigation plans across multiple work streams.

- Within 120 days of employment, you will develop change management skills as you work to quickly define and manage overall project risks and take corrective action in a proactive manner to mitigate risks and prevent issues.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

- Progress through your coaching plan and build your knowledge of VMwares project management methodology and technologies

- Provide clear and timely communication regarding the status of complex large-scale projects schedule, budget, progress to date, risks etc. - to relevant stakeholders

- Follow VMwares project management methodology and ensure that projects adhere to the defined guidelines and stage gate process

- Engage with Sales and Account teams to identify/drive account growth opportunities

- Drive continuous improvement of project processes methodology, templates, best practices etc. based on lessons learned from projects

- Direct and monitor work efforts on a daily basis, identify resource needs, perform quality review and escalate functional, quality and timeline issues appropriately

- Work on your IT project management certifications to deliver IT automation and cross-cloud solutions

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

We are a team of adaptive, self-starting and mission-driven individuals with a passion for doing our best work and bringing our best selves. We are committed to building and establishing a team culture that is rooted in collaboration, growth and a sincere commitment to the well-being of our team and its members. We make sure to invest time to check in on one another, have fun and support each other through the high-paced growth of meeting our vision.

This position reports to a senior Manager in World Wide Consulting Center team. He has held various leadership roles in the high-tech industry before joining VMware. He believes that leadership is not defined by title and encourages his team to be leaders and live the values they all bring to the team while being creative to tackle and solve problems together.

Where is this role located?

Flexible: The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remote depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager.

You will be expected to live within a reasonable non-daily commute of the office.

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package.

Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

- Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types

- Generous Time Off Programs

- 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community

- Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities

- Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)

- Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes

Female candidates will be given a preference of working from home