IT Project Manager

I have a full time opportunity for a detail oriented SDLC Project Manager to join the team for one of our top tier clients in Providence, RI. This is a highly visible role within the PMO and requires someone with some cross over BA skills as well.

It is 3 days onsite, 2 days remote and comes with a very generous base salary and employee benefits package.

Position Summary:

The Project Manager is accountable for leading and delivering projects through all phases of the SDLC and Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC). The PM is accountable and responsible for overall project communications, project planning, project governance, and scope, budget, issue, risk and escalation management.

The role requires excellent organizational and communications skills, and experience with enterprise system deployments. The Project Manager must also have a service-oriented mentality, proactively identify problems, and see them through to resolution, and establish good working relationships with the project team.

Responsibilities:

• Provides overall project leadership to the cross-functional team ensuring clarity regarding project objectives, approach and plan. Promoting a collaborative team environment. Proactively addressing resource and team challenges. Holding team members accountable for completing tasks and deliverables on schedule, on scope and with high quality.
• Accountable for the successful delivery of the project and its objectives-- ensuring the project team is producing deliverables on schedule, budget, scope and quality.
• Identifies and manages stakeholders ensuring that all stakeholders are identified and engaged; that their points of view and expectations are understood and managed; and that they are kept informed throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Accountable for project governance ensuring timely resolution to areas requiring remediation; scheduling and facilitating Monthly Key Stakeholder Updates; and timely and quality completion of regular status reporting.
• Provide resource planning and set expectations for individuals and the project team.
• Ensure proper communications among project stakeholders, management, vendors, and others as appropriate. Hold regular team meetings to gather project updates.
• Provide management dashboards and briefings to facilitate senior sponsor meetings.
• Translating the Statement of Work (SOW) deliverables into workplan with supporting methodologies
• Creating test plans and conducting UAT/QA testing if needed
• Accountable for creating, actively communicating, and managing the project schedule working closely with the other project leads (i.e., BA, SA, QA, Operations) to ensure detailed project tasks are defined and tracked within the overall project schedule.
• Defines and manages the project budget and all estimating costs ensuring funding approval; tracking and managing actual spend against budget; and forecasting through to project completion.
• Leads scope management and change control driving scope definition; identifying and tracking changes to scope; presenting scope changes through project level governance committees and Executive Leadership, as appropriate.
• Provides timely, and concise communications to the project team, Key Stakeholders, Business and Functional Leadership and the Innovation and Project Steering Committee, as appropriate, and consistently utilizing standardized status reporting throughout the project life cycle.

Education and Experience:

• 5-10 years of project management experience.
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Strong verbal and writing skills.
• Successful candidates will be self-motivated with a strong desire to contribute to the success of the department and company.
• Established track record of project management leadership and strategic planning experience.

Lori Sklarski

Senior Technical Recruiter, PRI Technology

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Office: x27

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