Description
Senior Project Manager
Skills:
Project Management, Business Intelligence, Analytics, C-level interaction for highly visible enterprise projects
Our client is a leading high volume consumer information website organization, headquartered in Atlanta. This fast paced, high energy organization fosters the ultimate work/play environment for out-of-the-box thinkers. You'll utilize the latest technologies in a collaborative environment and enjoy working with this well-known brand!
Summary
This is a 5 month+ contract opportunity. This role manages matrixed, cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined technical project outputs on time, within budget, and with quality results. Project Managers plan, organize, monitor, and oversee one or more projects to meet defined business specifications. They work closely with the Enterprise Program Management Office, as well as the IT Owners of their respective projects to guide efforts toward achieving intended business results. The IT Project Manager has primary responsibility for defining, planning, tracking and managing technology projects, for identifying key resources and providing the direction they require in order to meet project objectives. They also ensure appropriate management and business involvement throughout the life of the project.
Responsibilities
- Manage scope, schedule and cost for assigned technology projects; may be responsible for one or more projects.
- Develop project management deliverables, within compliance of approved methodology requirements.
- Communicate a clear vision of the project's objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them;
- Organize the work into manageable work packages or phases and determine an effective approach to completing the work
- Develop accurate estimates for effort, budget and schedule.
- Analyze risks, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibility for initiating mitigating action.
- Provide tracking and reporting on progress to plan, cost and schedule reporting, and change control.
- Analyze the actual performance against the plan and make adjustments consistent with plan objectives.
- Manage relationships with project stakeholders, both within IT and the PMO, as well as external business stakeholders
- Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities.
- Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles to ensure the project team can make progress
- Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting, estimate to actual variance, etc.
- Develop and maintain all project management documentation.
- Effectively coordinate the activities of the team to meet project milestones.
- Proactively manage change to baselined scope, schedule and cost variables, communicating impacts and facilitating decisions
- Provide performance input to team members' functional managers
- Resolve issues that impact the project in a timely, effective manner.
- Manage vendor relations and procurement related to the project requirements
Qualifications
- PMP certification desired
- 5+ years of professional IT experience, 3-5+ years project management experience in technical projects/programs.
- Knowledge of and competency in PMI-based project management processes, including planning tasks and allocating resources, risk management, issues management, time management, and financial management,
- Demonstrated experience running multiple technology projects of $1/2Million+ in size in an enterprise environment
- Excellent meeting planning and facilitation skills with all levels of the organization
- Experience with business support software applications such as MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visio, and Access) required.
Benefits
As an Agile consultant, you'll gain many of the advantages and benefits of being a direct hire, while experiencing the flexibility of consulting. It's the best of both worlds! Our IT consultants enjoy a wide array of benefits including: medical, dental, 401K, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program and more.