Senior Project Manager

Duties

• Organize and execute projects, including coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants.
• Coordinate and communicate between technical service teams and various business units.
• Adapt project management techniques to leverage best practices of iterative agile methodologies and pre-planned processes.
• Translate between technical and non-technical staff, including senior leadership.
• Develop and improve departmental project management methodologies.
• Lead and motivate teams to ensure projects are delivered with high quality.
• Manage project scope, budget, and timeline.
• Evaluate the impact of changes to project constraints.
• Identify and manage potential risks or issues.
• Proactively develop contingency and mitigation plans.
• Communicate relevant project information to project team members, internal customers, and management team.
• Influence decision-making, obtain buy-in, and negotiate resources, scope, and timelines with Project Sponsors, key stakeholders, and project team members.
• Manage contract and consulting resources and ensure compliance with the project budget and Statement of Work.
• Analyze and assess project requirements and processes.
• Identify areas for improvement and lead the project effort in standardizing processes, streamlining, enhancing, and making processes superior and simple.
• Deliver effective problem solving with an analytical mindset and take end-to-end project ownership to prevent and solve problems, and anticipate and avoid problems before they become project blockers.
• Take control of all assigned IT projects end-to-end to effectively challenge project members, ensure accountability, and inform stakeholders of project outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in managing IT Projects required.
• A combination of technical IT and leadership experience will also be considered.
• 5+ years of experience in managing IT Projects preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing medium to large complexity IT projects.
• Ability to influence and motivate others (who do not report to you) to perform quality work.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with management, project team members, internal clients, and consultants.
• Strong ability to persuade at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work independently, handle multiple priorities, and solve complex problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of JIRA.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies and experience managing projects in both.