
Senior Project Leader
🏢 On-site
Clare
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the senior point of contact for assigned key customers or strategic regions, building strong relationships and ensuring consistent, high‑quality project delivery.
- Represent the company in customer meetings, escalations, and strategic discussions, ensuring clarity of scope, expectations, and commitments.
- Resolve specification issues, manage all project correspondence, and provide structured, periodic updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Negotiate and coordinate customer‑requested changes (pricing, delivery, scope) in partnership with Sales and Commercial teams.
- Arrange and oversee customer witness tests and ensure a professional, well‑prepared experience.
- Coordinate field service activities with the appropriate Service Manager to ensure seamless execution.
- Provide accurate financial reporting and forecasting, proactively addressing risks and variances.
- Drive commercial discipline and ensure all project decisions align with financial targets.
- Lead project risk management, identifying issues early and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Provide leadership, direction, and support to project teams, fostering accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
- Mentor junior project managers and contribute to developing project management best practices across the organization.
- Participate in the ITO/ITR proposal process for large or strategic opportunities, providing execution insights, risk assessments, and schedule input.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, or a related technical field.
- Extensive experience managing complex engineering or industrial projects.
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget while maintaining strong customer satisfaction.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including mentoring and guiding project teams.
Desired Characteristics:
- Enterprise Software experience in Oracle or SAP
- Project management software experience
- Contract management experience.
- High energy level - self-starter.
- Technical knowledge of product lines and associated systems.
- Microsoft suite proficiency.
About Crane Company

Crane Company