Pws Project Planning Team Lead
- San José
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
**Duties and Responsibilities**
Team Lead functions
- Lead team members and foster their professional development and growth promoting teamwork and cooperation initiatives.
- To complete periodical performance reviews with group members.
- To support and guide team members on the execution of projects and initiatives.
- To track monthly metrics to measure the team productivity and efficiency and seek opportunities for continuous improvement.
- To create and foster a positive environment for work and professional growth.
- Ensure open communication with external managers and constant follow-up on results for the direct reports.
- Monitors changes in internal customer requirements to assess training and staffing requirements
- To serve as the first point of escalation for Planners.
- Support and administer company policy in an appropriate and consistent manner to ensure employee trust and management credibility.
- Schedule and lead regular group meetings to ensure that group members are aware of changing policies, standards, and processes and any other communications provided by the upper management.
Project Planning functions
- To work closely with Directors to analyze, determine and drive group level forecasts for resources, buyouts, projects, sales, orders, inventory, and invoicing.
- To provide business level information and specific reports to Management on project status and administrative processes to facilitate organizational planning and staffing strategy.
- To prepare and present group level updates to upper management
- To identify areas of improvement that drive business outcomes for the group
- To analyze resource utilization and capacity planning.
- To meet defined standard metrics (Quality, OTD, Customer Satisfaction, TAT) and drive opportunities for improvement.
- To streamline reporting systems within business needs.
- To serve as back-up support for other project planners and leaders, as necessary.
**Qualifications**
- Business degree in Business Administration or Industrial Engineer (MBA or PMP is a plus).
- 5+ years' experience in Finance, Project Planning, Data Analysis and Reporting positions.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Outlook, especially Advanced Excel and Power BI
- Working knowledge of scheduling and tracking tools, preferably Clarity, Oracle and/or Microsoft Project, other tools will be considered.
- Working knowledge on process improvement methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills.
B2 English level
- Financial Analysis capabilities.
- Proven leadership experience (directly or indirectly).
- Proven experience working with high level management.
**Key Competencies**
- Situational adaptability
- Communicates effectively
- Drives engagement
- Values differences
- Interpersonal savvy
- Directs work
**Working Conditions**
Travel 5%
**Direct Reports**
Between 4 and 10 Project Planners
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