Portfolio Project Manager

Location: Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
Job type: Contract
Work hours: 9am to 5pm

About the role

This role is part of the Project and Portfolio Management organization and reports to the Director of Project and Portfolio Management. The Lead Project Manager will deliver multiple strategic efforts across various departments.

Responsibilities

• Use a hands-on, proactive approach to ensure value is delivered, with full responsibility for all aspects of a project, including managing milestones, identifying and tracking issues and risks, and driving the team to meet project goals.
• Create visibility into project activities and milestones while balancing the desire to follow an agile and iterative software development process.
• Partner with other digital delivery groups to align ongoing efforts.
• Contribute to the team by participating in solution definition and removing roadblocks.
• Attain full knowledge of the functional area and help project teams focus on achieving desired business outcomes.
• Surface challenges that require cross-team coordination or leadership intervention before they impact scope, cost, or timeline.
• Establish a good cadence for communicating outside the team, including conducting effective meetings by managing the agenda, running the meeting, and tracking follow-ups.
• Establish strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders.
• Help the team identify development opportunities and challenge them to improve performance.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, and vendor teams; coordinate vendor selection and contracting.
• Ensure alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy and roadmap.
• Implement project or framework-specific governance.

Skills & Competencies

• Decision Making & Collaboration: Strong decision-making, collaboration, conflict management, facilitation, and delegation skills.
• Executive Engagement: Excellent experience dealing with C-level executives.
• Methodology Coaching: Ability to coach other project managers and business team members in applying the right methodology.
• Prioritization: Ability to juggle multiple priorities with competing deadlines.
• Accountability: Ability to drive deliverables through completion and hold team members accountable for their work.
• Risk Management: Ability to identify potential risks and provide proactive mitigations.
• Technical Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of IT standards, policies, and procedures; networking and infrastructure project components; and tools for managing and reporting team progress.
• General Skills: Positive can-do attitude, solutions-oriented, and willingness to extend beyond day-to-day project manager responsibilities. Strong problem-solving, forward-thinking, and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Adaptability: Strong adaptability and sense of ownership.
• Relationship Building: Strong ability to build relationships and credibility with management.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Strong ability to influence and drive cross-functional decisions and initiatives.
• Supervision: Minimal to no supervision required; adherence to performance review and goal-setting processes. Strong ability to provide and apply feedback to improve performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

Pay

$75 - $80 per hour

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings.
• Short-term disability.
• 401K plan (all benefits based on eligibility).