Project Manager - Temp to Perm

Meridian IT helps medium and enterprise businesses solve complex technical IT problems through cloud, hybrid, on-premises, security, infrastructure, and managed service solutions. The Project Manager coordinates and monitors the project management life cycle, ensuring project requirements, deadlines, budgets, schedules, risks, communications, and deliverables remain on track. The role also leads cross-functional teams, manages stakeholders and contractors, and drives successful project completion.

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, however, 10+ years of strong practical experience in lieu of formal education will be considered