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Strategic & Business Management Skills for Project Managers

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1. Project Management

Here’s how project management is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Provided day-to-day project management, budgeting and business planning, client and associate relationship management, and direction/guidance for team members.
  • Lead project management efforts to support division-wide operations and administration including program management and chief of staff functions.
  • Developed and implemented a corporate wide methodology for project management that improved team collaboration and project success.
  • Provided Project Management function for strategic technology initiatives within On-Line Data Center Operations and Call Center.
  • Developed project management plan, facilitated vendor and staff control as project manager for military ball.

2. Strategic Initiatives

Here’s how strategic initiatives is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Eliminated inefficiencies, facilitated strategic initiatives and enabled cost savings through analyzing daily reports through Holistic Margin Management.
  • Established revenue goals and strategic objectives with company management for developing short and long-term client relationship.
  • Project leader for key strategic initiatives defined by senior corporate executives.
  • Supported Internet of Things Group (IoT) overseeing cost management, compliance, and strategic initiatives.
  • Manage operational and strategic initiatives of the Web Development, Database, departments.

3. Portfolio

Here’s how portfolio is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Worked with technology partners to design data aggregation and portfolio accounting software.
  • Analyzed project portfolio, ensuring work aligned to strategic decisions.
  • Implemented fixes, workarounds, and process changes when necessary surrounding application processing, underwriting, closing, and portfolio management.
  • Develop, identify, prioritize and manage the strategic portfolio of projects and business initiatives.
  • Assigned to clear the project portfolio of failed or incomplete IT Infrastructure projects.

4. Project Goals

Project goals refer to attaining the desired output using a certain amount of resources at a specific period. Project goals give people clear direction and motivate us to keep ongoing. Project goals are the higher level of statements as opposed to objectives that describe the specific tangible product. The impact of a project defines the project goal. The success of the actions or tasks on the lower level will determine whether a project goal is achieved.

Here’s how project goals is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Defined project goals and objectives and all phases of project planning, organization and change management.
  • Assessed project goals, identified and created project schedules, and coordinated and directed staff.
  • Negotiated contracts for vendors’ services and products to achieve strategic and project goals.
  • Developed the budget and worked with financial planning to accomplish project goals.
  • Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support project goals in collaboration with stakeholders.

5. Business Development

Business development is the ideas or initiatives that work to make business work better. Selling, advertising, product development, supply chain management, and vendor management are only a few of the divisions involved with it. There is still a lot of networking, negotiating, forming alliances, and trying to save money. The goals set for business development guide and coordinate with all of these various operations and sectors.

Here’s how business development is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Received Bronze Star service award for developing a regional Intelligence business plan during deployment to Afghanistan.
  • Directed large-scale projects through program management, business development and process improvement.
  • Facilitated the business development activities for the Instruments division.
  • Lead in goal setting and performance measurements for the business development and business transient teams of Marriott sales offices.
  • Consulted in overall design concept and business development of seven businesses comprising the Shops at Swedish retail project.

6. Key Stakeholders

Here’s how key stakeholders is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Prepare and conduct weekly and monthly due diligence activities with key stakeholders from both legacy companies.
  • Collaborated with FRHS key stakeholders.
  • Collaborated with internal/external Stakeholders to obtain project input/improvements/performance metrics.
  • Defined and coordinated project functions/activities, engaged and communicated changes and progress to key stakeholders while building commitment to overcoming obstacles.
  • Managed complex political and technical risks by interacting regularly with key stakeholders and team members and keeping visibility on key issues.

7. Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement is an ongoing process of improvement of products, services, and processes with the help of innovative ideas. It is an organized approach that helps an organization to find its weaknesses and improve them.

Here’s how continuous improvement is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Lead and facilitated complex process improvement efforts while mentoring others in continuous improvement tools and techniques.
  • Developed service strategies, service offerings, and implemented continuous improvement.
  • Defined the framework for status reporting and governance of a newly created continuous improvement program.
  • Set clearly defined and visible continuous improvement project KEY PROFESSIONAL SKILLS results and targets.
  • Foster a team culture of continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation.

8. Sigma

In Greek alphabets, sigma is the 18th letter that means “to sum up”. In statistics, the lower-case symbol of sigma is the unit of measurement for standard deviation which is used to assess the variability in a given set of data. While the upper-case symbol is for summation notation means to add up all the given numbers in the data set.

Here’s how sigma is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Applied technical disciplines such as process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, data analysis, and facilitation.
  • Led Six Sigma Black Belt project targeted at addressing customer complaints.
  • Serve in leading project teams by establishing process evaluation activities to achieve continuous improvement through Lean philosophy and Six Sigma Methodology.
  • Orchestrated front-end engineering contractor selection process by utilizing Six Sigma tools to compile vendor selection rating criteria and assessing vendor capabilities.
  • Identified and managed a Six Sigma project for process improvement, resulted in substantial cost reduction and improved customer satisfaction.

9. Data Analysis

Here’s how data analysis is used on strategic project manager resumes:

  • Developed formulae and statistical models to enable better data analysis.
  • Lead line-of-business data analysis and communications on Operational Data Store implementation.
  • Experience in gathering/documenting business requirements, data analysis, and reporting.
  • Performed operations, market and historic data analysis to support and validate budget number projections for all domestic and international teams.
  • Developed and facilitated a SQL and data analysis training program enabling programmers to be successful in the new environment.

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