Project Manager

Summary:

• Responsible for planning and managing a mix of tactical and strategic projects that are of medium to high complexity, cost and impact, affect multiple business units, and include project team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyzes historical data, identifies areas for improvement and makes recommendations to improve estimates.
• Manages project initiation activities that include identifying contractual obligations, client needs and goals, existing situation, necessary contacts, and access to existing information as needed.
• Reviews plans to determine costs, timeline, funding, staffing requirements and goals.
• Develops project plans outlining project scope, activities, schedules, deadlines and cost/time estimates.
• Delivers informational and decision-seeking presentations to technical and business groups.
• Assigns project team members to various project activities.
• Manages project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress to ensure project goals (e.g., deadline, scope and quality) are achieved. Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as needed.
• Coordinates activities and tasks among project team members, other internal departments and client organizations as needed to meet project goals.
• Seeks and develops more productive and effective ways to complete assigned tasks. Ensures fit with timeline,architecture and user needs.
• Conducts project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover ongoing activities to accountable teams and complete a post implementation review to identify areas of improvement or that worked well.
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships and takes ownership of key initiatives across business levels and functions.
• May participate in pre-sales and due diligence activities by writing the project management methodology portion of the proposal and/or reviewing proposals.
• Improves department documentation standards or guidelines by making recommendations that result in cost or time savings.
• Provides training and some direction for project management team as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Complexity of Work: Non-routine; general policies applied to frequently changing situations.

Education: Bachelor’s degree from a four year college or university in a related discipline.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge and experience utilizing various types of IT project methodologies and life cycles (e.g.,conversions, client/server, incremental, rapid delivery, classic or traditional waterfall phases of analysis, design,development, testing, implementation) and the correct project application
• Extensive knowledge and skill in project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines, and recommends improvements to realize efficiencies
• Extensive knowledge of communications/escalation management
• Considerable knowledge and experience with company’s procurement management processes (e.g., acquiring goods and services, selecting and managing internal and/or external resources)
• Considerable knowledge and experience with company’s budgeting and forecasting processes
• Demonstrated broad knowledge of standards relevant to the software industry (e.g., ISO, CMM, Six Sigma) and how their use benefits the organization
• Advanced skill in the use of project management software to manage projects (e.g., MS Project and auxiliary tools, such as earned value database, audit tools, project repository, including risk, issues and action items database, SLIM Estimate, Metrics and Control, PlanView, Platinum Process Continuum)
• Skill in using a breadth of project experience and project management expertise to effectively transfer knowledge to any project situation (i.e., ranging from internal to conversions to software development projects)
• Skill in leveraging knowledge and experience using the industry project management best practices (i.e., Project
• Management Body of Knowledge - PMBOK) to play a leadership role by providing feedback for continuous process improvement
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