Senior Project Manager

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Project Manager for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Insurance/Financial clients in NY, NY.
Hybrid in NYC

Responsibilities:

• Manages moderately complex or complex projects end-to-end to deliver business outcomes, ensuring that the project is completed on time, within budget, and to a high level of client satisfaction.
• Develops and maintains detailed, robust, high-quality risk plan and project plan including resources, scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, etc., keeping plans updated through the project lifecycle.
• Understands the impact of scope changes and adjusts project plans and communicates accordingly.
• Interacts and maintains ongoing communication at the appropriate levels within the team as well as with the stakeholders, and ensures everyone on the delivery team understands their roles and responsibility.
• Negotiates resource requirements with responsible management when faced with conflicts in priorities.
• Undertakes regular work streams and project meetings, documenting and following up on actions and risks identified from the meetings.
• Assigns work to entry level professional and support staff, ensuring adherence to departmental standards and procedures.
• Reviews significant project proposals of high complexity and ambiguous parameters with high visibility and identifiable risk to the Company, validates all project requirements, and provides recommended changes to proposal, as appropriate.
• Explores and recommends solutions to the project requirements for projects where there is no identified precedent.
• Participates in recommending new standards and procedures based upon project experience and results.
• Below responsibility statements apply to PMO specific jobs:
• Provides project/program management expertise and guidance to the regional, divisional, and global project management community.
• Facilitates regional/divisional governance and portfolio oversight.
• Provides guidance on development and implementation of standards, methods, tools, templates for project management, execution, and reporting.
• Manages regular project/program assessments through toll gate reviews and health checks.

Required Skills:

• 8-10 years of Project Management Experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in an enterprise and highly matrixed organization, working across multiple teams
• Strong presentation skills (PowerPoint and Excel)
• PMO experience
• Strong understanding of technology and security life cycle
• Excellent communication, negotiation and listening skills

Preferred Skills:

• PMO Experience
• Cloud experience
• Project Management certification

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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