Hybrid || Project Manager || St. louis MO

Hello

Location : St. Louis, MO

Employment Type : Contract 

Position Overview

Client is seeking an experienced IT/Digital Project Manager to lead technology projects and initiatives across a variety of areas. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded Project Manager who can manage multiple concurrent projects, work effectively with business and technical teams, and adapt their approach across predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid delivery models.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead IT/Digital projects from planning through closure.

· Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and changes.

· Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, forecasts, RAID items, and status reporting.

· Coordinate activities and dependencies across business, technical, and vendor teams.

· Manage concurrent projects that may span applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, vendor solutions, and other technology initiatives.

· Facilitate project meetings, decisions, governance, and change control.

· Manage project financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances.

· Communicate project status, risks, issues, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.

· Drive accountability for project commitments and escalate issues when appropriate.

· Ensure projects follow applicable Ameren project governance and control processes.

Qualifications

· 5+ years of Project Management experience in medium to large organizations.

· Demonstrated experience managing technology projects using predictive/waterfall, Agile, and hybrid approaches.

· Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-team dependencies.

· Strong project planning, scheduling, financial management, risk, issue, and change management skills.

· Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.

· Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

· Working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Jira.

· Ability to understand technical concepts without needing to be the technical subject matter expert.

· PMP preferred but not required.

· Degree preferred but not required.