Project Manager

Description:

Objectives of this Role

Strategize, implement, and maintain program initiatives that adhere to organizational objectives

Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance

Oversee multiple projects, ensuring program goals are reached

Manage budget and funding channels for maximum productivity

What you'll be doing:

Oversee projects from a program management perspective coordinating all agile project teams.

Management of projects:

Provide leadership for projects assigned including an understanding of requirements, vision and scope; key resources to engage and the assignment of tasks.

Schedule and lead meetings as well as capturing meeting notes.

Control deliverables and manage to target dates.

Control risks, issues and action items and mitigate where needed.

Remove barriers and manage project scope.

Create a task list, project plan and success factors.

Solve problems, manage communications and build consensus.

Reporting of project status - to immediate manager as well as executive readouts.

Improvement of processes within the team.

Evaluate process and system effectiveness and continuously improving our solutions

Understanding and reporting of project and program delivery concepts, such as burndown rates, delivery velocity, release planning, and forecasting.

You'll need to have:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Must have the ability to effectively participate and lead discussions and present material at manager and executive levels, and to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, technology management, business management, or similar

Advanced knowledge of business processes (e.g. ITIL, Project Management) and the impact thereof on the technical environment.

6 or more years of relevant work experience.

4-5 years of experience in technical program management, preferably in a related industry.

Advanced knowledge of the full life-cycle of project delivery.

Experience in project planning and providing leadership.

Ability to collaborate with IT engineers and report to senior managers.

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

Even better if you have:

PMI PMP certification.

Ten or more years of Professional Services project delivery leadership.

Two or more years of Professional Services program delivery leadership.

Proven experience and ability to engage clients and manage relationships at the C-Level.

Leadership ability with excellent communications and team building skills across multiple work locations.

Strong technical acumen to understand and solve complex network and application layer challenges both from a design and problem management perspective.