Information Technology Project Manager
Job Description
<p>Job Summary:</p><p>Project Manager is responsible to lead projects to successful on-time, within budget and quality completion starting from the definition phase. Ensure that the project’s objectives are met by driving the day-to-day execution across multiple functional / organizational teams. Set strategic direction of projects and develop project plans. Provide high quality and cost-effective project management and apply risk & action management as necessary to mitigate issues / risks through effective and proactive planning and actions.</p><p> </p><p>Main Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Provides leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside project consultants / contractors.</li><li>Manage the day-to-day activities of the project team while adhering to the company’s overall project management methodology as defined by the PMO.</li><li>Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required. </li><li>Design processes to address identified problems.</li><li>Provides effective communication regarding status, issues, objectives, dependencies, risks and plan execution to stakeholders.</li><li>Manages and tracks schedules and issues, negotiates priorities against project plans to ensure key internal and external deliverables are met.</li><li>Works with department managers to establish team membership and negotiate time commitments and resource allocation. </li><li>Motivates team members and plans / facilitates team meetings, acts as a warden, problem solver, and facilitator. </li><li>Promotes and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors. Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues.</li><li>Actively participates in business development and relationship management activities including meeting with current/ potential clients, presenting / discussing solutions, responding to RFPs, gathering / sharing situational data, and identifying potential business opportunities. </li><li>Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices.</li><li>Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management. Instructs and educates on all aspects of project.</li><li>Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences. Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome.</li><li>Coordinate and schedule deployments into non-production and production environments. Account for all business priorities when scheduling project release.</li><li>Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans. </li><li>Prioritize project tasks according to priorities communicated by senior management.</li><li>Monitor task queues and issue-logs; request resources and appropriately escalate to ensure on-time completion of tasks and resolution of issues / bugs. </li><li>Develop, foster, and enforce team accountability to meet commitments.</li><li>Complete special projects and assignments as assigned.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Qualifications:</p><p><br></p><p>· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent. </p><p>· Minimum 5 years of hand-on experience as an IT professional involved in high profile, high risk, application development, large-scale web-application deployments and support or other relevant experience. </p><p>· PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)</p><p>· Project Management Institute Project Management Professional Certification (PMI-PMP)</p><p></p>
