Operations Project Manager

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Our Fortune 500 client is the world's largest global organization within their industry and is located in nearly 100 countries and territories world-wide. They are headquartered in Atlanta, GA and continue to be on the cutting edge of new technology. This established and growing organization has been recognized for their superior employee development efforts in Training Magazine's Top 125 for 2010 and remains an industry leader in environmental sustainability making continuous efforts to make an impact on the global environment. They also offer a fast paced and high energy environment where your career is destined to thrive.
The Operations Project Manager will be responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/sponsor's needs and deliver on desired outcomes.

Skills and Competencies:

  • Must have experience managing multiple projects simultaneously (ie anywhere from 5 to 17, depending on size and scope)
  • Strong experience and career emphasis on IT Infrastructure projects (some application experience desired)
  • Proven ability to provide guidance and best practice advice to business stakeholders (professional yet assertive)
  • 10+ years' experience managing projects in the IT Infrastructure space
  • Advanced verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals
  • Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics
  • Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis
  • Advanced proficiency with all MS Office applications, MS Project and/or Visio
  • Highly organized with good time management skills
  • Customer service orientation, and strong interpersonal skills
  • Analytical thinker with creative problem solving skills and attention to detail

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develop integrated baseline project plans applying estimating models, identify resources and skills required, document estimating assumptions, refine plans and manage performance against them
  • Recommend best solutions based on understanding of business issues
  • Provide task-based schedule and cost forecasts and assist in assessing risk-based provisions
  • Capture and track program metrics and perform analysis
  • Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk
  • Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them
  • Clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required
  • Manage project closure initiatives, such as client satisfaction survey and closure analysis
  • Document and archive project activities, deliverables, tools and findings for future projects

For immediate consideration, please forward your resume to (see below) or call.

Synergis serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. Recently named the Best Place to Work in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals for over 10 years. For more information about us visit our company website.

Synergis is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Start date
n.a
From
Synergis
Published at
07.07.2015
Project ID:
938531
Contract type
Freelance
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