Mid Level Project Manager- Onsite

Job Title:
Project Manager

Location:
Frisco, TX

Duration:
6 Month Contract

Position Overview:
The Project Manager has overall responsibility for the successful planning and execution of projects for IT. The Project Manager will work closely with the operations, solutions delivery, infrastructure, innovation, governance and security teams, business partners, and vendors to define, develop, and execute deployment of their assigned projects. The Project Manager ensures that the deployment of projects to the production environment follows the project life cycle methodology and successfully meets the business goals.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Works closely with all Technology teams, business partners, and Vendors to plan, organize, secure, and manage resources for assigned project efforts following software development lifecycle and project implementation policies and procedures as applicable. Independently research, analyze, identify, and document the tasks to achieve the project goals. Coordinate, facilitate, and lead project team meetings to accomplish project deliverables.
Responsible for the management of the project including: work statements, work breakdown structures, developing and tracking budget and schedule, tracking individual project tasks, providing risk analysis, tracking and resolving issues and action items, requirements gathering, quality assurance, providing various project management visibility and control measures and reports as needed and communicating to project team and stakeholders.
Work closely with our business partners to understand their business and system problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements. Support requirement discussions, requirement reviews, design reviews, testing and remaining project activities to ensure required resources participate and deliverables meet project scope and schedule.
Communicate Program Information, status, and key health metrics to stakeholders. Facilitate inter-team communication and resolution of Program-level dependencies, including weekly status meeting and monthly executive steering committee meetings.
Trace the requirements through life cycle of the project to ensure that the scope is managed and that the original requirements are delivered.
Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Solid practical experience dealing with project management, particularly dealing with proposed efforts and leading them through a defined process of prioritization and demand management.
Ability to work progressively with a wide range of individual levels, sponsors, stakeholders and resources to align activities and initiatives.
Demonstrated cross-functional expertise in diverse fields such as IT including Cyber Security, marketing, strategy, finance, operations, etc. and with skills as far ranging as business case development, ROI analysis, cost estimating, and what-if analyses.
Demonstrated experiencing in presenting persuasive recommendations to leadership as well as key external stakeholders, including ability to communicate complex ideas and recommendations to leadership that highlights a clear decision framework based on analysis and experience.
Cross-Team/Cross Department Project Leadership experience.
Strong Organizing & Inter-Personal Skills.
Technology experience/background a plus.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor s degree is preferred in MIS, Technology or Business.
Other: Knowledge of project management concepts and processes, requirements gathering, or business analysis preferred.

CERTFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
Project Management Certification is preferred.

EXPERIENCE:
3+ years equivalent work experience
Experience working within the theme park industry is a big plus
Experience with Microsoft Tools
Experience preferred in project management, business analysis
Good in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation required; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Works with internal business clients and external vendors.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical manuals and procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw graphs, and interpret spreadsheets.