Senior Project Manager

Saint Paul, MN, United States . PCMAN2156 Senior Project Manager Saint Paul, MN 12+ Months Job Description: Our Direct Client is seeking an experienced, full-time, on-site, dedicated Candidate, with skills and expertise as described in below requirement. Responsibilities: • Work with the business sponsor and project team members to manage and account for accomplishing the project’s stated objectives, providing strategic leadership with a focus on outcomes. • Identify clear and attainable project objectives, assist with building the project requirements, and manage the triple constraint for projects, which is cost, time, and scope. • Drive for results and accountability of business needs. • Leverage strong Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment. • Be decisive in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities. • Support the Business Analyst with alternatives analysis, and prepare and deliver recommendations to project leadership for the Client Registry implementation and the Seed to Sale initiative. • Work closely with business stakeholders and the Business Analyst to manage the delivery of future state business needs (i.e., workflows, requirements, test scenarios, etc). • Create operations and maintenance plan for Client Registry. • In partnership with the vendor project manager, provide a project plan with milestones for completion of all major tasks as an output from the discovery phase. • Create a risk register and issues log to be maintained throughout the project. • Conduct weekly (or more frequent) check-in meetings with the business sponsor and project team members to provide updates on the project plan and discuss any issues and/or ideas that may positively or negatively impact the deliverables. • Provide Project Integration Management (Project plan development, execution, and change control). • Provide Project Scope Management (Project initiation, scope planning, scope definition) as required or directed. • Provide Project Time Management (Schedule development and control). • Provide Project Quality Control (Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control) as required or directed. • Provide Project Communications Management (Communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and project status). • Provide Project Risk Management (Risk Identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk response control). • Provide Project Vendor Management (contract implementation and monitoring in partnership with the Client Procurement Manager). • Serve as a strong leader providing advice and assistance and reviewing the work of Client, the Client business and vendor staff comprising the project team as required or directed. • Provide knowledge transfer to State staff. • Perform other related duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications: • Seven (7) years of experience in Program/Project management role(s). • Four (4) years of experience as a Senior Project Manager. • Three (3) years of project management experience with full product lifecycle. • One (1) year of combined experience with gathering and documenting business requirements. Desired Skills: • PMP certification through PMI. • Experience as a Project Manager for multi-year enterprise category project(s). • Experience working in a government or non-profit environment. • Experience working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment. • At least an intermediate level of proficiency with MS Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and SharePoint with experience presenting to stakeholders and/or Senior Leadership. • Experience managing software development project(s) using the Agile Methodology. • At least an intermediate level of proficiency with Jira and MS Teams. • Experience with creating procurement documents and contract initiation and management. • Experience with custom developed systems, COTS, and SaaS solutions. 800 Corporate Drive, Suite 301-500 Stafford, VA, 22554 Phone - View phone number on click.appcast.io Fax - View phone number on click.appcast.io #J-18808-Ljbffr