Business Operations Project Manager (NPI)

As a Business Operation Project Manager at Cohesity, you will provide project management leadership while driving implementation of cross functional and critical initiatives. You will also advocate business transformation by defining project scope, alignment and delivery to achievements. You will efficiently drive cross functional teams, while influencing and collaborating with management at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Drive planning and execution of high profile new product introduction programs to support Cohesity revenue growth
• Help establish repeatable process and structure within the product operations team
• Lead multiple projects and teams while providing methodology leadership, ensuring the delivery of solutions to high impact business initiatives
• Optimally remove blockers and mitigate program risks while growing team efficiency and ensuring delivery
• Facilitate alignment through effective collaborators engagement and communication, identify program critical success factors, and drive mitigation of significant issues and risks
• Lead key project meetings with project collaborators to collect requirements, craft an appropriate solution, and present the complete project plan
• Act as a primary point of contact throughout the project implementation
• Generate and maintain documentation that supports the collection, management, and reporting of all project related information
• Develop, document and distribute contingency plans for critical events
• Provide regular updates and keep project collaborators advised throughout the project
• Identify potential project issues, in advance, and drive appropriate solutions

Qualifications

• BS degree with 10+ years confirmed experience in advising enterprise-level cross-functional ground-breaking programs
• 2+ Years experience leading software new product development programs
• Ability to drive work independently, identifying solutions, moving them to implementation
• Develops, maintains, and strengthens partnerships with others inside and outside the project team who provide decision making, information, or support
• Validated experience in project management
• Ability to drive process and influence people
• Remarkable problem-solving skills
• Validated experience working with project management techniques and tools
• Outstanding interpersonal and analytical skills that include the ability to respond to changing needs and shifting priorities while minimizing project impact
• Strong presentation and leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Project and Program Management Certifications (PMP) optional
• Proficiency with Asana and Jira. 

Drive Successful Outcomes

• Establish relevant cross functional partnerships across a variety of organizations including Sales Operations, Finance, Business Applications and Product Management
• Lead multiple critical initiatives - develop and align scope and deliverables and optimally deliver the solution
• Supply to the transition of project management at Cohesity to Agile methodology