Senior Project Director-Public Sector (State & Local) ERP-US

Senior Project Director-Public Sector (State & Local) ERP-US

Full-time

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The Public Sector Project Director is responsible for all phases of planning and execution of public sector enterprise software and services procurement, as well as implementation oversight.

This position supports public sector clients in designing and developing an ERP procurement strategy including, but not limited to, defining project mission, goals and objectives, gathering system requirements, authoring Requests For Proposals (RFPs) or Requests For Information (RFIs), along with developing other associated procurement documents.

This individual is responsible for facilitating the vendor evaluation and selection process, while remaining vendor, software and product neutral.

Additionally, the Project Director is responsible for supporting contract negotiations to the awarded software provider, integrator, or both, and overseeing the duration of the implementation engagement to include areas of scope such as QA oversight, project management of the overall engagement, overseeing management of designated supplemental resources, and reviewing work products and deliverables produced throughout the SDLC methodology.

This role requires executive briefing skills, strong technical writing and organizational skills, group facilitation and conflict management skills, as well as strong working knowledge of the public sector procurement process, along with understanding and sensitivity to public sector business demands, culture and legislative impacts.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the client through a well-designed, documented solicitation and evaluation process resulting in a clear statement of work and contract with a qualified solution provider.
• Oversee the planning and development of all project deliverables including staffing, budget, work plans, scope, project milestones, issues management and risk management.
• Manage client relationships, including executive sponsors and senior project management to ensure client satisfaction throughout the engagement.
• Develop and create public sector procurement documents (e.g., RFPs) and related acquisition documents for software and services.
• Design and draft evaluation materials including an Evaluation Guide, demonstration scripts, interview scripts, scoring criteria, scoring analyses and others.
• Provide high level expertise across a broad range of business and IT-related subject matter areas.
• Negotiate and manage software and services contracts.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Ten plus years of recent experience leading the solicitation and vendor evaluation of large, complex public sector IT projects, preferably ERP-related.
• Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms.
• Bachelor of Arts or Science degree required, technical or business field preferred; MBA or other advanced degree(s) desirable.
• Public sector experience (minimum of five to seven years at multiple client engagements).

Demonstrates working knowledge with MS-Office Suite of software applications and tools, including : Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS-Project and MS-Outlook.

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