Project Manager

About the role

The Project Manager will plan, direct, and coordinate project activities to ensure project and team objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. Coordinates cross-functional projects and assumes a leadership role in shaping priorities, setting and tracking schedules, driving issue resolution, and ensuring quality.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary point of contact with key customers for implementation of GHX core products, leading coordination calls and aligning GHX activities with customer activities.
• Leads and facilitates project “kickoff” sessions to review assumptions and expectations, gather requirements, educate internal stakeholders on products and services, etc.
• Buils detailed project plans and schedules, identifying deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Directs and coordinates project personnel to keep the project on schedule, providing early visibility to milestones at risk.
• Works through ambiguous situations to reach tactical resolutions and go-forward action plans.
• Maintains a project risk and issue log. Facilitates risk mitigation and issue resolution across functional managers and sponsors to minimize impact to project schedule and internal stakeholder satisfaction.
• Aligns to strategic needs of the client, as well as best practice experiences. Conducts regularly scheduled meetings with stakeholders that continue to progress the project per charter / guidelines formulated at project initiation.
• Understands the business fundamentals, provides routine updates to senior leadership (both client and GHX) on assigned projects, in the form of routine project check in meetings, and/or formal project readouts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience in project leadership roles.
• Experience with software development, implementation or integration projects either in a leadership role or as a major team contributor.
• Must have a basic understanding of the software implementation life cycle.
• Knowledge of project management methods and processes, including SDLC and Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in delivering project scope on time and within budget.
• Experience managing customer relationships and projects.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and written and verbal skills, with solid analytical and qualitative reasoning ability — including diagnosing project performance problems and recommending effective corrective actions.
• Ability to multi-task. Self-motivated and passionate about learning new technology.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 25% annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience in project leadership roles.
• Experience with software development, implementation or integration projects either in a leadership role or as a major team contributor.
• Must have a basic understanding of the software implementation life cycle.
• Knowledge of project management methods and processes, including SDLC and Agile/Scrum frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in delivering project scope on time and within budget.
• Experience managing customer relationships and projects.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and written and verbal skills, with solid analytical and qualitative reasoning ability — including diagnosing project performance problems and recommending effective corrective actions.
• Ability to multi-task. Self-motivated and passionate about learning new technology.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office suite of solutions.
• Ability to travel up to 25% annually.

Skills

• Project management skills.
• Technical knowledge in software implementation.
• Customer relationship management.
• Facilitation and communication skills.
• Organizational and analytical skills.
• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Accident and life insurance.
• 401k matching.
• Paid-time off.
• Education reimbursement.

To view more details of our benefits, visit us here: https://www.ghx.com/about/careers/