Project Manager, Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance

Project Manager, Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance

Job Description

A successful candidate in this position will lead team(s) of employees and consultants to implement solutions under our Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance Program (EDSG) to support various data and analytics initiatives. The EDSG Program is one of the enterprise priorities for 2025 onwards and the scope includes Data Warehouse setup and extraction, data cleansing and data source corrections, master data management, and analytics projects. The candidate needs to have excellent communications skills and a strong desire to deliver results while managing multiple projects simultaneously. This is a hands-on project manager position and requires the incumbent to lead all phases of project i.e., design, development, implementation, deployment, and maintenance. In this role you are part of the EDSG PMO organization, and you report to the Director for EDSG Program.

Responsibilities for Project Manager

Project Management

• Manage, deliver, and support EDSG implementations that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions and technology solutions for Flowserve.
• Manage implementation risk, manage project economics including planning and budgeting, define deliverable content
• Ensure buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the business, as well as IT governance, and be accountable for execution.
• Manage the day-to-day interactions with business management, IT, and Sponsor.
• Coach, mentor, and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Ensure end to end project governance and execution in line with the IT standards.
• Lead a cross-functional team to achieve project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Use technology to ensure all parties are informed about schedule and budget.
• Keep stakeholders informed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan.

Data Management

• Coordinate creation of standardized mapping templates and design format files to extract and harmonize/standardize data from source systems.
• Coordinate data harmonization across different business applications and/or correction of data definitions, master data, list of values, business process, or procedural changes to harmonize the data in the source systems.
• Work with IT to establish the data extraction, staging, mapping/harmonization rules, data structures and dashboards to support the curated data warehouse, as well as making the appropriate changes to the source systems to standardize the extraction going forward.
• Coordinate documenting all the steps of the functional and technical actions taken to extract, harmonize, and standardize the data, including:
• Data lineage, meta data management, data catalog
• Business, functional, and technical design documentation
• All testing and sign-off documentation to provide the evidence for a properly executed project and data governance process
• Coordinate or perform development and maintenance of analytics dashboards as proof of concept and final usage from the curated data warehouse. 
• Work with the business (data governance and data steward council) to define and establish standardized publishing methods, formats, and reporting services.
• Maintain, test and improve business and systems operations once brought to production and in normal operations.

Required Skills / Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Business Analytics, or Operations Research
• 5-7 years experience in Project Management, Business Analytics, Data Analytics, and/or Process Design in the following fields: Logistics, Supply Chain, Materials, Finance, IT, Data, or Industrial Manufacturing environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Smartsheet and/or MS Projects experience
• Affinity with ERP and other IT systems (Oracle, SAP, BPC, PowerBI, MS Office)
• Strong organizational, time management, and presentation skills to effectively communicate with all levels in the organization and possesses the ability to work in a cross-functional matrix environment.
• Ability to handle multiple projects or project tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to map current and future desired state for IT and Operational processes and create roadmaps out of that.
• Possesses the ability to work in a cross-functional matrix environment

Preferred Skills / Experience:

• Master’s Degree
• Work experience in a manufacturing industry will be an added advantage.
• Certification in PMP-PMI, Prince2, Agile-scrum and/or Lean-6sigma are a plus.

Additional Info

• Candidate must be willing to travel, when required, up to 25-30% throughout NAM and Europe, traveling to any of the world-wide Flowserve sites.

Flowserve offers competitive pay, annual bonuses, medical benefits on day 1, generous paid vacation time, paid holidays, 401(k) and many other excellent benefits!