Project Manager

Job#: 2081380

Job Description:

Job Title: Project Manager

Job Location: Columbus, OH (Onsite)

Job Pay: $60/hr-$70/hr

Contract Length: 6 Months

This position is responsible for managing multiple projects, with interdependencies in a fast-paced, high energy environment.

This person must excel at communication, details, organization, leadership, project management, and has a positive attitude who proactively takes the initiative to Get Stuff Done with high quality.

Also, this person must have 5+ years experiencing in managing projects in an IT organization, and having experience with Waterfall / Agile methodologies.

This person will work closely with IT Application teams as well as Business functional teams to:

Identify project deliverables, develop project scope, manage resources and activities to ensure project deliverables are met on time and within budget while delighting our customers.

Identify project risks and set timelines to meet customer expectations.

Influence effectively between the Business Owners, Project Managers (PMs), and Operations Teams to support delivery, risk mitigation, change management, and issue resolutions.

Effectively manage and lead the successful delivery of the projects and requests from within various phases of delivery, across the entire lifecycle of Delivery within project timeline and budget.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains detailed project schedules or ADO boards depending on the project methodology (Waterfall or Agile).

Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation, and project budgets.

Schedule recurring internal and customer facing meetings as needed during project implementation to review and monitor project goals and status.

Represents team recommendations to Senior Management, demonstrate influence over governance bodies, and communicate effectively via formal presentations.

Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders.

Collect and report value metrics to enable leaders to make decisions in order to maximize returns across enterprise projects and programs.

Ability to quickly learn and use new complex technical concepts and resolve issues with them in a rapidly changing environment.

Ability to discuss complex technical concepts to the technical staff, stakeholders and business executives in a simple straightforward manner.

Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution.

Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation. Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelors degree / 5+ years of experience.

Experience as a Scrum Master and a Project Manager.

Preferred Qualifications and Experience:

Excellent interpersonal communications skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organization levels.

Has an ability to understand people and technologies with the ability to know what questions to ask to guide someone through solving a problem (without knowing the subject matter)

Ability to assess and deliver appropriate level of detail and comfortable interacting at all levels of the organization.

Experience at working both independently and in a cross functional team-oriented environment is essential.

Must be able to facilitate discussion and discover alternatives or different approaches.

EEO Employer

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.