MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science or Engineering at an accredited university required.
• PMI Certification and/or Six Sigma training is preferred, but not required.
• 5 years of direct project management experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Strong leadership, management and negotiation skills with the ability to be assertive before project tasks and go-live dates are late.
• Proven ability to be effective in a mission-driven environment.
• Able to document complex requirements in a uniform and logical format that’s easily understood by both business and technical groups.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

Typical office environment.

The Manager, Assistant PMO will assist and lead project teams, be responsible for end-to-end project management across all functions within specified Kubota departments. This will include definition and scoping of projects, alignment with business sponsors and key stakeholders, project execution, and communication of status and risks.
The position will provide key input into the design and planning of key strategic projects and initiatives and manage a team of resources to establish consistent methodology and excellence in execution. In short, execute projects that exceed management and user expectations.
The Manager, Assistant PMO must communicate with business users to define specific needs. The candidate will create business requirements, project objectives/milestones, and schedules and oversee quality control throughout the entire project.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES: This position does the following in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and local laws / regulations and the Company’s policies, procedures and guidelines:

• Help Quality Control PMO policies and procedures.
• Provide feedback and recommendations for improvements on PMO and IS toolset usage.
• Identify and partner with key business users from dealers, divisions and home office departments to derive project needs that will enhance operations and systems.
• Develop and maintain work plans that consider strategic goals, priorities, milestones, time estimates, task sequencing and critical paths while at the same time determining what tasks can be performed concurrently.
• Ensures the timely and quality development of all deliverables for projects.
• Must be able to thoroughly assess projects eliminating or minimizing scope creep.
• Create a consistent methodology to track and maintain future enhancements as additional requirements are added unexpectedly to a project.
• Additional duties assigned by management.