Job Description :
Trigyn has a contract opportunity for an IT Project Manager with our direct client - a major utility services firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Details on the role are listed below :
General duties :
- Plan, organize, monitor, and oversee technology-based projects in support of business requirements
- Identify and utilize appropriate skill levels to staff project teams, while providing development opportunities and mentoring for team members, as appropriate.
- Understand and apply the Project Mgmt. Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
Additional responsibilities :
- Partner with Information Services functional groups to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
- Provide proactive analysis and recommendations that will assist in streamlining operations, increasing efficiency, improving productivity, and reducing costs.
- Provide project management leadership to initiatives and process reviews; leads best practice analysis, recommendations, implementation and measurement, project status and metrics reporting functions.
- Build an intimate knowledge of assigned customers’ activities to proactively identify opportunities to apply new and / or improved technologies to business processes.
- Assist assigned customers and project teams with issues such as priority-setting, facilitation, and contract brokerage to overcome obstacles, meet budgetary expectations and achieve specific project related goals.
- Coordinate research and development activities maintaining solid business relationships with other companies and industry organizations associated with research and development.
This includes but is not limited to :
- Making recommendations regarding operating methods based on best practice feedback from industry associations and other research data analysis
- Providing information on technical trends and competitors’ practices relevant to the assigned business client.
- Identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements
- Seeking ways to apply technology to business processes
- Assist in implementing, monitoring, and measuring change impacts; develop metrics reports for determining successes / failures.
Required skills :
- 5+ years of experience, including demonstrated success, as a Project Manager
- Experience managing projects with vendor activities
- Thorough understanding of MS Project, Project Web Access, and Project Server, as well as baseline management and change control.
- Experience working within both Agile and Waterfall environments
- Working knowledge of PMBOK principles
Pluses :
- PMI membership and / or PMP certification.
30+ days ago