Project Manager - Multiple Locations

Job role: Project Manager

Multiple Locations: Columbus, OH / Charlotte, NC / Chicago, IL / Detroit, MI / Minnetonka, MN / Dallas, TX - Onsite

Duration: 6 months CTH

Job Description:

• This position is responsible for managing multiple projects, with interdependencies in a fast-paced, high energy environment.
• This person must excel at communication, details, organization, leadership, project management, and has a positive attitude who proactively takes the initiative to 'Get Stuff Done' with high quality.
• Also, this person must have 5+ years experiencing in managing projects in an IT organization, and having experience with Waterfall / Agile methodologies.
• This person will work closely with IT Application teams as well as Business functional teams to:
• Identify project deliverables, develop project scope, manage resources and activities to ensure project deliverables are met on time and within budget while delighting our customers.
• Identify project risks and set timelines to meet customer expectations.
• Influence effectively between the Business Owners, Project Managers (PMs), and Operations Teams to support delivery, risk mitigation, change management, and issue resolutions.
• Effectively manage and lead the successful delivery of the projects and requests from within various phases of delivery, across the entire lifecycle of Delivery within project timeline and budget.
• Responsibilities
• Develops and maintains detailed project schedules or ADO boards depending on the project methodology (Waterfall or Agile).
• Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation, and project budgets.
• Schedule recurring internal and customer facing meetings as needed during project implementation to review and monitor project goals and status.
• Represents team recommendations to Senior Management, demonstrate influence over governance bodies, and communicate effectively via formal presentations.
• Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders.
• Collect and report value metrics to enable leaders to make decisions in order to maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs.
• Ability to quickly learn and use new complex technical concepts and resolve issues with them in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to discuss complex technical concepts to the technical staff, stakeholders and business executives in a simple straightforward manner.
• Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution.
• Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation. Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks.

Qualifications:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree / 5+ years of experience.
• Preferred Qualifications and Experience
• Excellent interpersonal communications skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organization levels.
• Has an ability to understand people and technologies with the ability to know what questions to ask to guide someone through solving a problem (without knowing the subject matter)
• Ability to assess and deliver appropriate level of detail and comfortable interacting at all levels of the organization.
• Experience at working both independently and in a cross functional team-oriented environment is essential.
• Must be able to facilitate discussion and discover alternatives or different approaches.

Must Have:

• 5+ years experiencing in managing projects in a technology organization, and having experience with Waterfall / Agile methodologies.
• Must excel at communication, details, organization, leadership, project management, and has a positive attitude who proactively takes the initiative to 'Get Stuff Done' with high quality.
• Managing project deliverables, resources, schedule, budget, risks and issues that deliver project deliverables on time with high quality while creating a positive experience for all stakeholders and clients.
• Effectively manage and lead the successful delivery of the projects and requests from within various phases of delivery, across the entire lifecycle of delivery within project timeline and budget.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working at a Financial Services Company
• Experience working on an infrastructure project
• Scrum Master experience a plus