Responsibilities

Manage a project, or several projects, within client portfolios.
You will be expected to utilize your business knowledge, and project management experience, to successfully drive project outcomes and milestones.
You will be expected to support, and coach others involved in the integrated project team.
Ensure projects are delivered on the required, quality, outputs within the specified time and financial constraints.

There is a strong focus on financial management, coordination of delivery team resources, and closely monitoring and maintaining detailed project plans. It is expected that status reporting, issue and risk management is undertaken on a timely basis.
Project Managers will be expected to follow the in-house project lifecycle from inception to completion using standard project lifecycle practices and artifacts.
Build and maintain project plans, including approach, scope, tasks, durations, work effort, dependencies, budget, planning assumptions, risk profile, resource allocation, and deliverable definitions.

Manage both IT and business projects.
Coordinate and facilitate core and extended project track meetings.
Make project-level decisions, manage track team leads and day-to-day team activities responsible for identifying and managing project risk factors and anticipating and resolving project issues.
Proactively provide project status to project team and stakeholders complying with all reporting requirements.

Utilizing and ensuring project adherence to client standard project management processes and tools to manage project teams across the entire project life cycle.
Serving as an advocate of the project management principles and standards.
Escalating unresolved issues to management.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum of 6 to 8 years’ experience in project management disciplines, with experience planning and executing projects and programs, preferably in a product development environment.
Strong project management skills with experience in organizing, prioritizing, planning, and executing projects from definition through implementation, involving internal personnel and third-party contractors.
Requires excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment skills, strong supervisory skills, strong organizational skills, and the ability to work effectively with project team members, project sponsors, functional leads, and senior management.

Knowledge of other initiatives within the portfolio to leverage knowledge and networking.
Self-motivated and output focused.
Flexibility to travel as required to regional locations.
Drive and demonstrated success working independently in a virtual environment.
Capable of strategic thinking and of moving strategic plans into action.
Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
SharePoint experience is necessary.