Project Manager - Temp to Perm

Meridian IT Inc. is an IT solutions provider helping medium and enterprise businesses address complex technical IT problems through cloud, hybrid, on-premises, security, infrastructure, and managed service solutions. The Project Manager coordinates the full project management life cycle, tracks scope, schedules, budgets, risks, and deliverables, and leads communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Setup and track project details in current Project Management software
• Ensure timely entry, validation, and approval of time and expenses
• Manage project budget
• Manage subcontractor time and expenses
• Facilitate assigned project team activities such as team meetings, minutes, follow up action items, maintenance of project plans, risk and issue logs and coordination of program and project documents
• Review, update and coordinate project status with project stakeholders and publish regular comprehensive project/program status reports
• Gather and update project materials, documentation, forecasting, and lessons learned documents
• Setup recurring status meetings with clients, field questions, and handle issues
• Track project milestones and deliverables
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Consistently deliver results as planned
• Act as the point of effective control over coordination, communication, escalation, and follow-up for issues
• Responsible for conflict management and problem resolution
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project life cycle
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential issues and risk, and devise contingency plans
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• Provide risk management and issue/problem resolution
• Manage cross-functional interdependencies
• Responsible for clear and timely communication to multiple stakeholder groups
• Can speak to the details of the project to both the business and technical teams from beginning to end of all projects
• Effectively utilize organizational resources
• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project
• Responsible for the overall success of the project
• Perform other duties, as assigned

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager, leading project teams
• 5+ years of experience with cloud, data, networking, telephony, or software
• Proficient in MS Office (Including Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, & Visio)
• Excellent project management skills including prioritization, scheduling, and documentation
• Ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong grasp of current communication, project tracking, budget management technologies
• Excellent meeting, workshop, and conference facilitation skills, with proven knowledge of how to foster participation and collaboration in small and large groups
• Knowledge and experience with different project management frameworks, including waterfall and agile
• Solid technical understanding and ability to define and refine requirements through a project lifecycle
• Employs strong analytical and problem-solving skills to manage shifting priorities, demands and timelines
• Ability to quickly learn, understand and apply new technologies
• Willingly to mentor junior team members and share knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
• Effective delegation to manage and minimize risks
• Demonstrated commitment to excellence in customer service
• Able to break down technical concepts into business terms
• Ability to learn new technical concepts on a theoretical or high level
• Strong team player with emphasis on soft skills and relationship building
• Able to manage multiple customers and projects simultaneously and deliver results
• Able to handle multiple priorities and interruptions with minimal impact on productivity
• Able to demonstrate a high level of independent judgment and initiative
• Can handle confidential information in a professional manner
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• PMP preferred