Job Description :
Responsibilities:
Overview:
The purpose of the Sr. Project Manager position is to provide direction and leadership to project team members for large sized systems projects that are moderate to high complexity. The Sr. Project Manager will ensure project delivers positive business value and meet committed scope, cost, schedule and quality business results.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree is preferred
8+ years IT experience or related business experience
5+ years project lead experience
PMP certification preferred
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Strong track record managing IT projects and formal project management knowledge as well as ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines
Ability to build and maintain cohesive motivated teams
Ability to coach and develop subordinates and/or peers
Experience with stakeholder management.
Strong business and strategic planning skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to make effective presentations and communicate technical concepts to non-technical clients
Excellent planning, organizational and leadership skills
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
Strong consulting and customer service skills
Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders
Ability to provide financial forecast and on-going reconciliation of resources and other project related expenditures
Responsibilities:
Experienced Sr. PM with CyberSecurity experience, especially in these areas:
Identity Access Management, Identity Management & Governance, Privileged Account Management (PAM) experience and Multi factor Identity for PAM.
Manages and is an advocate for the entire project
Communicates appropriately and effectively to stakeholders, gaining trust and building consensus
Help Business Partners and Business Users understand their roles and responsibilities within the project
Obtains appropriate stage-gate approvals from business and IT sponsor
Ensures team understands the business benefits of the project and connects the project to the broader organizational goals
Work with stakeholders to confirm understanding before drawing conclusions
Requests the needed people for a project and get them oriented to work on the project
Develops and executes an overall project schedule, including tasks, duration, dependencies, and resource assignments
Controls and tracks changes to scope, time, cost, quality, issues and risk
Manages completion of project objective, such as procurement, quality planning, service level agreements, and customer training
Ensures product deliverables’ quality, such as functional specifications, logical and physical data design, solution design and detailed design, test plans, and completed solution
Resolves issues in a timely manner. When appropriate, escalate problems and issues to stakeholders and sponsor
Evaluates risks, assess possible outcomes and solves problems
Manages vendor relationships according to contract terms and conditions and works with vendors as needed
Responds to terms or conditions not being met
Monitors individual performance, maintains team morale and provide feedback to resource managers
Recognizes and reward desirable individual and team performance
Directs and delegates work effort
Contributes to IT PMO’s methodology and practice areas