Senior Project Manager

Project Manager

Receives high-level business requirements and oversees the development of detailed requirements and prioritizes efforts.

Refines resource requirements and forms project teams. Further defines estimates for financial, physical or human resources to support long-term projects and programs.

Facilitate requirement reviews with development teams and gather estimates.

Applies best practices, and develops project standards, procedures and quality objectives including metrics for assessing progress. Utilizes established project standards, procedures and quality objectives.

Conducts project kickoff meetings, communicating individual roles and project expectations and ensuring that all project team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively.

Develops detailed project plans and schedules and drive tasks and project to completion.

Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts.

As needed, facilitates the evaluation, selection and contract negotiation for external vendors and independent contractors. Manages relationship with external vendors working to support project requirements. Assesses performance against project milestones/schedule, metrics, scope, quality as defined by contract specifications. Acts as liaison between business client and vendor.

Makes presentations to solicit project buy-in, report on project status, conduct problem resolution and other types of communication to a variety of audiences.

Accountable for project milestones and critical dates, scope, cost and quality to identify potential risks. Initiates ways to resolve schedule and other project-related risks and issues. Keeps management aware of the situation.

Facilitates and manages testing efforts to validate project deliverables meet scope and quality expectations, when needed.

Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost and quality objectives. Ensures business owner and/or project executive sponsor has a process to track outcome and satisfaction metrics.

Conducts project review and closure at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.

Other Duties/Functions:

• Participates in Resource Allocation Planning and Cross Project Dependency Mapping
• Continuously provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance. Uses past experiences to identify potential areas of improvement.
• Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project stakeholders.
• Coaches or mentors less experienced personnel.
• Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Seven (7) years of general project management experience or five (5) years of IT project management experience or equivalent combination of education and related work experience

Working knowledge of end-to-end software development lifecycle

Experience with projects in multiple technologies and business functions

Excellent written communication skills. Able to prepare routine reports and correspondence.

Math skills -- ability to do project forecasting and financial management.