Project Manager III

Project Manager IIIThe Project Manager III will demonstrate exceptional ability to manage project scope (quality deliverables and customer experience), time (duration), and costs (effort), manage communications effectively with internal and external stakeholders, manage the solution development: deliver successful solution deployments in close partnership with cross-functional teams, while managing customer expectations: maintaining a seamless customer experience and overall satisfaction from the process and the results.Responsibilities include setting scope, timeline, and deliverables to ensure a successful deployment for multiple external customers, organizing and managing a portfolio of projects, being a primary point of contact for project implementation activity, establishing project command and control of project delivery both internally and externally, partnering with cross-functional teams to gather key documentation and required resources, participating in the sales process as needed, prospecting specific implementation approaches, scope, and plans, supporting statement of work creation on an as-needed basis, identifying early signs of project and customer risks and devising appropriate risk response strategies, occasionally traveling to customer sites to conduct training and solidify customer relationships, and assisting in enhancing our methodology of project delivery of our growing set of solutions.Requirements and preferred experience include a minimum of 3 years of project management or related experience in a SaaS environment, strong aptitude of technology tools and solutions, extra strong analytical thinking, strong system perspective, and diligent process analysis skills, strong initiative, innovative thinking skills, and ability to analyze details and translate into the big picture view, ability to adapt to a rapidly changing product and respond strategically to customer needs, technical aptitude and proficiency with professional services and CRM tools, and experience with government budgeting concepts and practices and/or finance/budgeting solutions is a strong plus.Compensation: Chicago, IL: $105,000 - $120,000. On target ranges above include base plus a portion of variable compensation that is earned based on company and individual performance. The final compensation will be determined by a number of factors such as qualifications, expertise, and the candidate's geographical location.