Project Manager

Overview

Our client needs a Project Manager. This Project Manager will successfully plan and control projects utilizing numerous techniques to strategically direct, question, and analyze the total project in addition to its individual parts. This person is accountable for the coordination and communication required to bring the project in on time and within the established budget. The Project Manager directs project resources and efforts, participates in the decision-making process with all levels of staff and management, communicates with business area management, and makes recommendations to effect positive change.

This will be a great opportunity to the right candidate providing member exposure to working of a Global organization in a collaborative environment with team members spread across the globe.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge:
Complete understanding and knowledge of industry practices, standards, and concepts within field of work. Experience with large-scale data conversion initiatives including both operational data of ERP systems as well as decision support data of data warehouses.

Decision Making:
Makes decisions using broad management limits. Applies guidelines and procedures that leave considerable room for discretion and interpretation. Decisions directly influence the project, client relationships, and or expenditures. Additionally, decisions exert some influence on organization's long-range goals and objectives. Participates in determining objectives of assignments.

Supervision Received: Works independently under general supervision. Work is reviewed for overall adequacy in meeting objectives.

Leadership:
Self-starter. Plans, allocates the activities of project teams. Provides training and guidance to less experienced staff.

Problem Solving/Operations/Direct Work Involvement:
Develops solutions to complex problems which require the regular use of innovation. Ensures that solutions are effective in meeting organizational objectives. Questions problem definition to address underlying issues.

Client Contacts:
Manages internal and external relationships. Represents organization as prime contact for projects and other necessary communications. Interaction may include senior internal and external personnel on significant matters often requiring complex coordination between organizations. Communication involves persuasion and negotiation, as applicable. Seeks ways of improving client service.

Skill Set Years of Experience

• PMP Certification
• Project Management experience (7+ years)
• Should be able to work independently

• Agile Team Leadership

• Should be able to work independently using Agile scrum and Kanban approaches

• Minimum 5 years of business experience working in or with an IT organization in system, programming, application deployment, or project development efforts.

• Should be able to work independently

• PM Tools like Clarity or MS Office, JIRA

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS/NON-ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Experience with large-scale ERP data conversions.

• Experience with delivery on data warehousing projects

• Previous successful performance in the Project Manager role for multiple, concurrent projects

• Ability to plan, execute and control a project, establishing realistic estimates and reporting metrics

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to plan, organize, delegate and control work

• Demonstrated ability to understand and balance technical Application Services/solutions with time, cost, and human factors

• Ability to lead a group to accomplish a common goal.
• Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and influencing skills
• Ability to utilize available tools such as workflow diagramming, data flow diagramming, project scheduling, and word-processing as needed
• Ability to estimate, plan, track, control costs, and provide needed status reporting.
• Excellent knowledge of a system development methodologies including Agile and Waterfall, through all of its phases and deliverables
• Ability to assess project risks and exposures; identify options and alternatives, make decisions, and implement corrective actions
• Demonstrated skills in diplomacy, confidence, persuasiveness, enthusiasm and verbal fluency
• Ability to promote and build a team atmosphere, motivating team members
• Proven analytical, problem solving, and decision making abilities
• Demonstrated Technical Knowledge
• Working knowledge of information systems concepts, terminology, and best practices
• Demonstrated Communications and Business Skills Procedure and Standards Development Written and oral presentations to all levels
• Excellent interpersonal, consultative, coaching, communication, and negotiation skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to work independently in a self-directed manner and collaboratively as a team leader or member; ability to create and implement detailed action plans
• Ability to understand legal and regulatory requirements and business drivers and priorities, and integrate these requirements into overall security design
• Ability to manage and prioritize complex, changing workloads in a challenging technical environment
• Capacity to quickly absorb new concepts and technologies and apply that knowledge to current efforts and plans

Minimum Education Required: Bachelors Degree