Project Manager

Duties:

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the successful completion of a project's deliverables

• Develops, updates, and actively manages a comprehensive project plan, including tasks, start and end dates, work effort, resource assignments, milestones, and critical path

• Identify and address project issues, including leadership and interdependent teams, and to promote self-directed teams by enabling open, transparent and clear communications

• Manages changes in scope in accordance with change control procedures

• Applying project management and agile knowledge to identify, escalate, and remove team impediments that jeopardize sprint goals

• Incorporating updates and changes to the integrated project plan and prepares reports and presentations for executive levels

• Working with all team and vendor project resources on projects of a complex or mission critical nature collaboratively

• Managing all SOW deliverables and reporting project costs and forecasts on a regularly scheduled basis to project leadership and making recommendations to improve project effectiveness

Skills:

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management experience leading technical projects, including development and execution

• Strong command of the software development life cycle (SDLC), online collaboration tools, mainstream project management software, budget management, schedule management, change management process

• Advanced understanding of technology (ie. OS layer, database layer, application layer, network, etc.).

• Experience working as a liaison between customers, operations and technology

• Experience executing and coordinating technical projects from inception, scoping to final delivery

• Experience with Project Management tools such as ServiceNow, MS TFS, MS Project, etc.

• Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority. Ability to tailor messaging to relevant audiences

• Self-starter, with strong sense of ownership, assertive follow-through, and a passion for the highest level of customer satisfaction

Education:

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or applicable degree