VP of Program Delivery

American Traffic Solutions, Inc. is a leading provider of technology and business solutions that support the growing requirements for Electronic Toll & Traffic Management solutions worldwide.  The majority of our clients are government agencies.

Since its founding in 1992, ATS continues to be a client-focused transportation products and services company.  Our offerings are backed by state-of-the-art hardware and software, professional and reliable services, knowledgeable and dedicated people, specific and extensive industry experience.

ATS is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with regional facilities in New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Mesa, AZ, and St. Louis, MO.  ATS maintains state-of-the-art facilities for software development as well as specialized vehicle detection & imaging systems R&D, and manufacturing. 

The Scottsdale facility also serves and the Company?s international Network Operations Center for all active cameras and data collection devices worldwide.  Customer Service and Transaction Processing are distributed across time zones for load balancing and customer convenience.

Our Products and Offerings are focused on traffic safety and mobility and have been specifically developed in response to growing demand for traffic and transportation related solutions worldwide.  The company has steadily cultivated the right combination of people, processes and enabling technologies required to achieve success.

Our unique solutions for automated toll and traffic violation processing, together with the proven business management expertise provide each of the required elements to ensure successful outcomes for our customers and partners.

We operate on a fundamental and proven principal that successful, long term customer relationships are key to a successful business.  These relationships are built upon trust, reliable and complete customer service and a deep knowledge and understanding of customer business needs and goals.

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced business manager to join our team to manage all project managers for the implementation of new traffic enforcement operational contracts.  These projects require coordination across internal and external resource teams consisting of a diverse set of internal employees, consultants, subcontractors and client government personnel.  This individual must have the demonstrated ability to identify business problems, develop rapid mitigation strategies, and implement business-based solutions.

The ideal candidate will also have significant experience working with and delivering services to public sector clients such and state and local governement agencies.  The candidate should be very familiar and comfortable navigating municipal organizations ranging from municipal staff members (traffic engineers, city managers, police chiefs, city attorneys, court administrators, and elected officials).

Key Job Responsibilities

? Participating in the development of an ongoing program plan and roadmap for the development and implementation of contracts for multiple clients.

? Delivering services to municipal governments

? Developing consistent project management standards

? Managing the priorities of individual project managers

? Coordinating the development of reasonable estimates as input to project plans

? Developing and maintaining detailed program and project plans

? Development and oversight of project budgets during bidding, contracting and implementation

? Making necessary schedule adjustments and managing their impact on the project

? Managing on time and on budget results

? Securing appropriate human and physical resources to ensure project success

? Assisting with the negotiation and execution of contracts.

? Identifying and resolving staffing and project issues in a timely manner

? Communicating issues requiring escalation to ATS senior management

? Communicating with ATS senior management and project team(s) through regular, effective status meetings and written reports

? Defining and implementing quality processes

? Reviewing project deliverables for quality, accuracy and timeliness

? Organizing and maintaining a comprehensive project repository to facilitate reuse for future projects

? Managing clients and client expectations initially and on an ongoing basis

? Assisting PM?s to sell new products and services to existing clients.

? Assisting PM?s to securing contract extensions and upgrades.

Job Requirements

? BA, BS or MS degree (MBA desirable)

? Experience evaluating business problems rapidly and making informed business decisions without delay

? 10+ years business and project management experience

? Project Management Institute (PMI) certification (preferable)

? Team player with an appropriate sense of urgency

? Ability to lead projects by example and direction

? Strong oral and written communication skills

? Deep facilitation, problem solving, consensus building and issue resolution skills

? Proven track record of successful project management through on time and on budget delivery of planned scope

? Recent large team (10-15 resources) project management experience

? Experience managing programs and projects with multiple, dependent cycles and managing the associated impact on schedule, resources, change control, etc.

? Significant experience with Microsoft Project for the development and ongoing maintenance of plans

? Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Visio products

 ATS offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Please email your resume with current contact information to adam.tuton@atsol.com