Project Manager
Employment Type : Full-Time
Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount's portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry's most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions.
The Paramount Technology department supports our global content company through the delivery of a high-quality viewing experience, system infrastructure support, and creating innovative ways for our employees to collaborate. If you are interested in a strategy that has growth, transformation, and ongoing innovation where you can help “reinvent the broadcasting wheel” Paramount Tech has a role for you…
Primary Responsibilities:
Paramount Tech is hiring a Project Manager to play a role in helping to modernize Paramount Global’s Media Supply Chain, ensuring alignment with corporate operating goals. The Project Manager will initially help with refining and operationalizing the project management standard processes under the Transformation Management Office (TMO), assisting with audits, and supporting/running programs. In addition to traditional project management, this candidate will help to lead and support Agile and Scrum projects in various capacities (e.g., scrum master).
Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in project management and/or related Operational/Technical experience in a well-established, hard-working software development environment using both Agile (or variations thereof) and Waterfall standard processes.
- Experience running or supporting medium to large projects in a controlled project management setting such as a Project Management Office (PMO) or equivalent.
- Experience creating and leading project work like GANTT-based plans, RAID logs, and weekly status reports.
Additional Qualifications :
Domain and Technical Abilities
- Experience working and collaborating with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Customer teams following both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Ticks and ties the spirit of objects to the interdependent parts of the supply chain to help ensure maximum effectiveness in prioritization, decision making, and alignment
- Ability to understand technologies applicable to assigned product or service area and facilitate resolution of technical needs as they arise
- Consulting experience is a plus!
Collaboration
- Frequently interacts with a diverse group of technology and business sponsors to establish and align on achieving business outcomes
- Seamlessly communicates status updates within teams, across teams, and Leadership
- Prioritizes across people, products and projects by helping teams align on where to focus and deliver the most value
- Strong written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills
- Focuses on removing Impediments/blockers and improving Delivery results
Program Management Skills
- Knowledge of Waterfall and frameworks and software delivery lifecycle practices
- Experience supporting or running the execution and launch of business-to-business products, including aligning teams on scope, development testing, User Acceptance Testing, and complex launches!
- Facilitates the creation and maintenance of a program roadmap, in close collaboration with Product Management, and Engineering teams
- Experience with Excel, project governance tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) and GANTT-based plan tools to drive and lead program initiatives
- Experience participating in or running PI-planning sessions, scrum of scrums, and retrospectives
- Experience handling critical dependencies and risks/issues within and across programs, including risk mitigation plans
Core Competencies
- Drive and Determination. Has a go getter attitude, understands how to get things done, follows up diligently, and collaborates to prioritize where there’s value. Focuses on where 80% of the value can be added as quickly and effectively as possible and helps to identify solutions as obstacles are encountered.
- Outcome-Focused. There is often more than one way to achieve a goal. Understands and helps to lead teams to prioritize programs based on these outcomes to ensure what is truly needed is achieved.
- Resilient. Perseveres in the face of challenges and continues to pave the path ahead. Keeps teams motivated when facing challenges.
- Structured Thinker. Organizes thoughts easily, effectively, and is capable in sharing in a way that others can easily understand.
- Ownership & Accountability. Is responsible for the program and the related outcomes as a servant leader, motivated to help achieve set and achieve goals.
- Growth Mindset. Focuses on continuously improving themself, ways of working, collaboration, etc. In addition to personal growth, focuses on team and project continuous improvements, facilitates in retrospectives, and helps to track and measure improvements.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. From the programming and movies, we create to employee benefits/programs and social impact outreach initiatives, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.
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