Project Manager

Project Manager

Immediate need for a talented Project Manager. This is a 12 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Fort Washington PA (Hybrid).

Key Responsibilities:

Project Management:

• Responsible for the project management of a project. Includes: Deliverables and management of major project milestones.
• Management of the tasks, activities, and resources during lifecycle of the project: Initiating, planning, executing, closing.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Identifies gaps, analyzes project risks, establishes contingency plans, and identifies trigger events and responsibility for initiating and mitigating actions.
• Responsible for estimating level of effort and costs of the project and defining a project timeline that includes kick off through closing handoff to requestor; re-forecasting timelines and estimates as needed throughout the project seeking approval for change orders, change in costs and changes in resource needs.
• Maintains a strategic view over the project objectives and deliverables.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Provides status reporting to senior leadership
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations.
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project lifecycle.
• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts for the project. Resolves issues that impact the project in a timely, effective manner.
• Conduct project retrospective and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Assist in development process improvement and ensure best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Partner with the business to create business cases as needed, that include benefits analysis and a plan to track benefits realization.
• Relationship Management:
• Manages vendor relations and procurements related to the project requirements.
• Manages relationships with project stakeholders.
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to stakeholders and teams.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• People Management:
• Ensures Project Manager adherence to Corporate and PMO standards.
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and contractors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Provides guidance for project team members and encourages pro-active development of skills and capabilities.
• May mentor individuals, possibly within other parts of the organization.
• Provides effective feedback, throughout the performance management cycle, to ensure optimum performance.
• Participates, as appropriate, in formal processes such as performance feedback and improvement, and disciplinary procedures.
• Contract Management:
• Sources and collects contract performance data and monitors performance against KPIs.
• Identifies and reports under-performance and develops opportunities for improvement.
• Manages to deliverables that may be outlined in SOWs.
• Sourcing:
• Reviews business cases and determines appropriate procurement routes.
• Monitors and reports on supplier performance, information security, customer satisfaction, and market intelligence.
• Investigates, resolves, or escalates problems and determines where change is required.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills; JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Agile, SharePoint.
• Bachelor of Science Degree or Arts Degree
• 3 years' experience in managing and leading IT projects
• 3 years, experience with an SDLC, PMLC and Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies
• Strong experience as a Project Manager of medium to large complex projects. (new system implementation, upgrades or enhancements) applications (including cloud based, system and infrastructure type projects desired)
• Proficient in working with MS Office Suite (Project, Excel, Word, Visio) and collaboration tools such as SharePoint or Project Management systems.
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and listening skills
• Experience working both independently and, in a team, -oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Work in office 3-days per week. Additional in office days may vary per Division/Department.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Flexible during times of change and able to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
• Ability to defuse tension, should it arise.
• Customer focused and provides excellent customer service.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Adept at conducting analysis into project-related issues and products.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and drive solutions.
• Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
• Flexible during times of change.