Job Description :
Manage projects with internal and external dependencies, moderate scope, risk of moderate severity & impact, integration within functional capabilities, moderate cost and typically longer duration within more than one team of resources.
Identify & resolve discrepancies in planned costs versus actual cost and overall financial management for assigned projects.
Responsible for developing and reviewing/validating multiple project plans and approving plans.
May mentor Jr. IT Project Managers.
Understands the need for Business Case/ROI and ensures its completion.
Participates in change initiatives including tasks and initiatives outside of specific job duties such as BRM workgroups.
Responsible for developing and reviewing detailed project plans and tracking financial information.
Communicate project status to project team, stakeholders’ leadership and Program Managers associated with other projects.
Advise project team, customers, and staff on tactical solutions to dealing with barriers within a project.
Accountable for active facilitation of project issue resolution, change, risk and dependency management.
Accountable for project delivery including meeting time, budget and quality standards and customer expectations.
Leads project meetings.
Required work experience:
5+ years related work experience or equivalent combination of transferable experience and education in IT project management.
Required Management experience: No supervisory/management experience required
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work; preferably in an IT related field.
Required Certifications: PMP - Project Mgmt Professional
Additional Required Qualifications:
Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback.
Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately.
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
Advanced proficiency in the use of labor, cost management and project tracking and management tools such as MS Project.
Advanced proficiency of SDLC disciplines and Agile methodology disciplines.
Thorough understanding of the concepts, theories and processes of the Project Management Methodology (PMM
Thorough understanding of business processes, functions and architectures.
High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
Broad knowledge of IT functions.
Ability to Lead/Facilitate Core team or Steering meetings to obtain schedule, issues, risk , and dependency updates.
Ability to document meeting minutes, action items from project status meetings.
Ability to organize and prioritize workload.
Preferred Qualifications:
Agile Scrum Master experience
Experience using Agile methodology
Yellow belt on Lean Six Sigma principles
Waterfall is ideal, Healthcare, (Claims Processing)
*PMP*
Rally experience, MS Project, Project Tracking, Prefer Software Development PM’s
(working through design, building, strong SDLC experience) *System Teams Strong Application Development understanding, Dev testing and design