Overview
On Site
Contract - W2
Skills
Project Lifecycle Management
Reporting
Project Control
Budget
Project Scoping
Communication
Decision Support
IT Management
Team Management
Quality Management
Regulatory Compliance
Policies and Procedures
Finance
SAP BASIS
Estimating
Invoices
Project Budget
Information Systems
Computer Science
Microsoft Project
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Project Management
Software Development Methodology
PMP
Project Portfolio Management
Pharmaceutics
Management
Job Details
Myticas' direct client is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager for a 6-month contract position in North Chicago, IL.
Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Description:
- Develop, execute, and manage multiple IT projects within their defined scope(s).
- Manage a multitude of interrelated project activities and lead all aspects of the project lifecycle, working with project sponsors/key stakeholders, team members, and management to oversee all phases of project completion.
- Build and manage project's work peakdown structure, milestones, risks, issues, and deliverables within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of the project.
- Ensure transparent reporting of project status, issues, risks, and financials.
Key Responsibilities:
- Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials and deliverables. Responsible for building the plan and resource needs to accomplish the scope.
- Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
- Executing and Closing Project: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Leads team in delivering project scope. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
- Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate program status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
- Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Motivates project team in order to deliver project outcomes.
- Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.
- Decisions: Make decisions that impact project level activities. Influences or has final decision authority for project budget.
- Financial Control: Develops and manages a financial plan with multi-million dollar spend. Tracks actual spend, accruals, proactively creates spend estimates on a regular basis (at least monthly) and coordinates estimates and invoices with project vendors, in order to maintain spend at +/- 10% of the overall project budget.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, Information Systems/Computer Science or related discipline.
- Proven Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word skills are required.
- 5-10 years of experience in project management.
- Experience managing SDLC projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP Certification
- PPM Tool experience
- Pharmaceutical experience
- Experience managing projects to deliver or enhance validated systems.
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