W2 ONLY. NO C2C / CORP-CORP / 1099 / 3RD PARTY FIRMS.
8+ month contract. Potential to extend/option to hire.
Client: A global leader in the science of nutrition that fill nutrition gaps and provide innovative products for a healthier future, enabling customers and patients to live their healthiest lives.
Role:
- Manage application, infrastructure, and ERP integration and disaster recovery projects related to company mergers and acquisitions.
- Responsible for participating and/or leading/driving discovery through to design to help build the business case with comprehensive budget planning for final submission and approval.
- Ensure the day-to-day management of the project through assignment of project work, mobilization of required resources and monitoring and reporting on key dimensions (e.g. work progress, risks, opportunities, issues, schedule, budget, etc.).
- Manage delivery in line with the project sponsors' expectations, tolerances, timings and expected business benefits.
- Manage timely decision process.
- Design and ensure adherence to the established project governance.
- Build project charter, project plans, status reports and executive/steerco presentations.
- Coach, support, energize and engage the project team.
- Ensure roles and responsibilities are communicated with regular feedback on performance.
- Ensure successful delivery of key project packages, capture lessons learned and review whether the objectives and business case assumptions have been achieved.
- Lead project team delivery in line with the expected business objectives (what/how), quality standards, and on-time as per the schedule.
- Consistent application of standards, methodologies and templates.
- Perform successful project closure approved by steering committee.
- Align input to the steering committee.
- Create business case and project control documents such as issues, R&O, change requests, budgets, etc.
- Stage reviews and approvals.
- Provide documentation on decisions taken on raised exceptions.
- Engagement with key project stakeholders and team members.
- Identify ways to eliminate waste and/or boost team performance.
- Actively coach & develop junior team members.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in project management as a role with at least 5 years managing IT technical projects.
- Experience managing IT application and infrastructure integration projects.
- PMP certification.
- Project management methodology (e.g. Waterfall, Agile).
- Experience in IT projects related to mergers and acquisitions is a plus.
- Proficient knowledge in MS Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to operate in a matrix organization with minor supervision.