Project Manager

Position: Project Manager

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: 12 Months

Rate: $70/hr

Job Description

• Work independently and self-manage tasks and time to balance and adapt to changing priorities..
• Interact with a variety of business and IT stakeholders including consistent interactions with Senior Staff/C-Suite
• Develops and executes against work breakdown structures (WBS) for each project.
• Develop and/or lead change management efforts across all phases of projects and initiatives.
• Drives result and provides transparency to results through the skillful use of timely, supporting data in project meetings and through other forms of verbal and written communications.
• Consistently creates and shares timelines/WBS at the right level and understand how to show high level or milestones to Senior Leaders on projects.
• Manage action items outside of meetings.
• Sets clear expectations with project resources around criticality and due dates.
• Executes assigned project efforts in accordance with the Firm's project management life cycle methodology, complying with security, risk, data and other Firm PMLC protocols.
• Actively utilizes Firm systems, including the Firm s project portfolio management system to enter and maintain timeline/WBS, issues/risks, financials, and status message on a daily/standard basis to reflect current state as real time as possible.
• Influences project team and stakeholders to ensure projects are on time and on budget.
• Escalates known issues/risks to project success to manager as appropriate when at an impasse where time, cost or resources are affected.

Required skills:

• 10+ years experience in software product delivery disciplines and activities (i.e., product management, business analysis, testing, and project management activities); including delivery adhering to Agile methodologies and the SDLC.
• 8 years in project/program management at the detailed level, working with multiple interdependent teams.
• Highly organized.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strategy and change management skills.
• Experience with waterfall, hybrid, and agile solution development methodologies
• Experienced in creating and updating a detailed project plan.
• Understands multiple projects and how to integrate them into a business solution.
• Ability to articulate tech jargon and translate tech concepts to business sponsors.

Preferred skills & Technologies:

• Microsoft Project
• Proficiency with Visio diagrams and decision trees
• Experience with project portfolio management software such as Eclipse or ServiceNow
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Azure DevOps/VSTS/TFS
• JIRA
• Document Management System (DMS)