Job Description :
Position: Project Manager
Location: Little Rock, AR
Duration: 1+ Year
Description:
Primary Responsibilities and Activities
Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required
activities and tasks.
Provide leadership and motivation to project team members throughout
the project life cycle and confer with project staff to outline work
plan.
Act as a coach to junior project managers, executives and others who
need assistance and advice regarding project management practices.
Establish work plan and staffing for project activities, iterations
or phases, and arrange for recruitment or assignment of project
personnel.
Review project proposals or plans to determine time frame, funding
limitations, procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing
requirements and allotment of available departmental resources to
various project phases.
Analyze project proposals to determine time frame, funding
limitations and appropriate process for accomplishing projects.
Review/approve work plan of external service provider or consultancy
contracted to execute project.
Implement project communication plan.
Conduct risk assessment and mitigation.
Monitor project activities, ensuring the currency, quality and
integrity of the information, while providing consistency in content
and "look and feel" across the enterprise.
Ensure that project goals are accomplished and in line with business
objectives.
Assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority to project personnel.
Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure
project progresses on schedule and within budget.
Review status reports prepared by project personnel, and modify
schedules or plans as required.
Establish standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation.
Continuously benchmark project management performance to identify
improvements and achieve higher capability maturity in PPM.
Vendor Management
-Perform as functional bridge amongst external vendors as well as
internal stakeholders
-Handles problems with vendors or products as necessary
-Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering
to approved budgets
-Ensure enterprise-wide needs for due diligence, risk assessment and
continuing vendor monitoring are being accomplished
-Track, measure, report and evaluate vendor performance, providing
recurring executive and management reports
-Establish and facilitate steering committee meetings with internal
and external vendors
-Proactively identifies opportunities improve performance, increase
synergies, and drive better value to the business
-Establish consistent and universally acceptable visibility into
vendor performance
Primary Contacts
Project team/staff (including designated users or customers)
Vendor Project Management
Business unit (BU) management/executives
Business analysts
User/customer product owner
External service providers'/consultancies' project manager(s)
Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor's degree in business information systems (IS), computer
science or related field, or equivalent related IT experience. MBA in
IS or other master's degree preferred. PMP training and certification
is required.
Experience
Seven or more years of progressively responsible IT experience, with
sensitivity and commitment to business problem solving
Five years successfully managing complex and risky projects
Five or more years of BU or BU-facing experience, with sensitivity
and commitment to business problem solving
Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams
Four plus years of MS O365 implementation experience
Four plus years of data migration experience between federated MS
environment to a centralized MS O365.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication
skills, as this is a highly visible position with substantial impact
Skill
Required /
Desired Amount of Experience
Large IT Project Management
Required
10 Years
Vendor Management on Large Scale Implementations
Required
5 Years
MS O365 Implementation
Required
2 Years
Data Migration Experience Between Federated MS
and Centralized MS O365
Required
2 Years
PMP Certification
Required