Project Manager

Project Manager

We are looking for a highly organized Project Manager with solid communication skills. A PM who is experienced in leading cross-organization project teams toward targeted and scheduled outcomes in an IT environment.

Responsibilities:

• Successful management of medium-large sized projects from initiation through closure
• Deliver the project's primary end result within scope, budget, and on schedule
• Continually report on project progress, updates on issues, and identified risks to project stakeholders
• Work closely with the Program Manager and Project Sponsor to identify and satisfy project needs
• Report on status of progress, issues, and risks
• Facilitate team meetings; logistics (e.g. scheduling, agendas), keeping on agenda, capturing meeting decisions and actions, and managing meeting processes
• Develop and manage project schedules, budgets, resource assignments, and project plans
• Management of secondary projects that involve the maturity of the PMO and other groups under guidance from the Program Manager/PMO
• Interface regularly with team members, working primarily with the PMO and other teams
• Maintain high quality project hygiene (project artifacts, records, reports, metadata, etc.)
• Track and report metrics
• Manage administrative activities for the supporting team.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project management experience on projects with full-time employees, internal and external vendors
• Knowledge/background in data center infrastructure and operations
• Possess strong cross team/group/org collaboration skills; ability to foresee and analyze project risks, develop risk management plan and mitigate subsequent issues
• High-powered analytical skills and the ability to understand concepts and articulate situations that pass by many others
• Excellent verbal and written communications skill
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite and Project Professional.
• Formal training or certification in project management methodologies (PMI, Agile, etc.)