Senior Project Manager Infrastructure

Title: Senior Project Manager Infrastructure

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Type: Contract

Our client is seeking a Senior Project Manager Infrastructure who exhibits advanced skills in collaborative facilitation and coordination of teams and customers on complex projects.

Key Accountabilities:

Demonstrates expertise in business or technology domain alongside comprehensive knowledge of and expertise in project management methodology, tools, and practices.

Demonstrates advanced proficiency in project planning and management, budgeting, consensus building, and issues resolution.

Demonstrates advanced proficiency in reviewing and creating detailed documentation and reports relevant to the management and implementation of the project management cycle.

Communicates effectively with clients, colleagues, vendors, and organizational administration.

Supervises and motivates large numbers of project team members, negotiates with vendors, and coaches and mentors project management staff.

Manages 15 to 26 project staff members.

Leads and manages large complex projects or a series of projects with significant risks.

Works with Executive Sponsors and Program Managers to define project scopes, resolve critical issues, establish, and monitor appropriate project budgets, and ensure adherence to organizational and project management practices, standards, and policies.

Collaborates with HR and IT Resource Managers to identify and select project personnel, communicates the project vision and individual roles to team members, and manages resources, vendors, and all relevant parties.

Monitors project progress, resolves associated issues and mitigates risks, and ensures that stakeholders remain informed and actively involved in the project's timely completion.

Tracks aggregate resource hours and expenses for project portfolio, implements project budgetary controls when necessary, and monitors compliance at portfolio level.

Monitors the aggregate project budget and reconciles shortages and overages in individual budgets.

Negotiates contracts and manages vendor relationships relative to project portfolio.

Directs the creation and dissemination of project reports/metrics.

Manages, coaches and mentors team members.

Required Skills:

Understanding of security/IAM as it relates to infrastructure.

Healthcare experience preferred.

Large enterprise infrastructure environment experience required.

A bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare IT or related field required.

Advance education or graduate degree in related field (i.e., MBA, MHA, RRA)or additional discipline strongly preferred.

Over 15 years of solid experience as project manager in medium to large complex projects with increasing responsibilities.

PMI member in good standing.

PMP certified.

Additional certification in a specialized business domain or technical domain associated with Principal PM role.