Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute

Job Description :

Pay Range $65hr - $70hr

Responsibilities :

• Manages three or more medium- to large-scale projects from planning to completion by facilitating meetings with project stakeholders.
• Develops, analyzes, and manages project estimation and execution plans, schedules, and resource forecasts.
• Manages project financials and provides input and justification for costs and budget impacts.
• Monitors overall project performance against plan and makes adjustments as needed.
• Identifies and resolves issues.
• Provides insight and direction for the request for information and vendor request for proposal processes.
• Manages the work of multiple project teams by recommending or requesting resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands.
• Communicates a clear vision of project goals and objectives to the team.
• Coordinates team activities to ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Lead and provide work direction to a project team to determine project scope, devise and maintain a workable plan, and to develop and deploy the solution in accordance with the needs of the project.
• Provides performance feedback to team members as needed.
• Manages, controls, and mitigates risks across multiple projects by analyzing and identifying trigger events.
• Manage the project change control process, status reporting, project estimating, monthly cost accounting and vendor invoice processing.
• Establishes contingency plans, anticipates and manages dependencies affected by ongoing changes across projects, and recommends ways to mitigate future risks.

Influences management to take action on these recommendations.

• Manages the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders by building and maintaining relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management.
• Manage interaction between the customer, vendors, and the internal project team to ensure that appropriate relationships exist to produce positive project outcomes.
• Provides insight and recommendations to Program Managers to drive the development of project goals, influence the prioritization of deliverables, and facilitate decisions necessary for project delivery.
• Adheres to enterprise project management practices by participating in formal and informal training sessions.
• Tracks and reports key metrics as needed.
• Gathers, maintains, and communicates lessons learned and feedback to team members, management, and the larger project management community.
• Specialized experience and technology needs include : M&A PM with Infrastructure experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• 6+ years of project management experience, including 8+ years of IT or related business experience.
• 3 to 5 years of experience working on projects involving the implementation of project life cycle methodologies.
• Experience influencing and managing project teams without formal direct reporting relationships.
• Experience managing SDLC projects using an iterative methodology preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of PMI based project management competency areas and methodologies and experience applying these methods to manage successful projects.
• Analytical skills are required to effectively manage activities related to budgeting, forecasting, monitoring, process management, risk management, quality control and reporting.
• Strong oral and written communication skills and experience leveraging these skills to interact with all levels of management.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• High-level understanding of IT infrastructure and application architectures desired.
• High-level of proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Project.
• High-level of proficiency using Microsoft SharePoint.

Career Level Dimensions :

• Typical Training / Experience.
• Typically requires BS / BA in a related discipline.
• Generally 8+ years of experience in a related field OR MS / MA and generally 5+ years of experience in a related field.
• Certification is required in some areas.

Problem Complexity :

• Displays the highest level of critical thinking and analysis in bringing successful resolution to high-impact, complex, and cross-departmental problems.
• Makes prompt, sound decisions when faced with complex and often contradictory alternatives that result in successful outcomes.

Autonomy :

• Operates with considerable latitude.
• Situations may have little or no precedent requiring original or new concepts or approaches without guidance from others.
• Reaches decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

Leadership :

Develops or engages / directs others in developing innovative solutions to important, highly complex strategic and operating problems;

cross-departmental considerations are often present.

Requirements :

• Located in a comfortable indoor area.
• Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about.
• On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
30+ days ago