Job Description:
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Columbus, OH (100% Onsite M-F)
Type: Full Time/W2 with Infinite Computer Solutions
Job Description:
What does a great Project Manager, Staff level do?
As a member of the Project Management team in Professional Services you will work directly with Client s's clients to lead successful project delivery through leading, planning, coordination and monitoring of medium to large scale projects with a high degree of complexity and risk. You will be responsible for project intake, delivery and short-term post-production support while fostering ongoing client relationships. You can look forward to working with cross-functional teams and multiple Client s Business Units.
In this role you will:
Collaborate with key business partners to ensure positive start-up and completion of client facing and internal projects. You will interface directly with our clients to lead projects that span multiple products, business units or functional areas providing you with an opportunity to learn several facets of our business.
If you are the kind of person who leads Client engagements, project team discussions, develops project delivery plans, and leads problem solving scenarios while providing technical consultation throughout the solution delivery lifecycle this is a tremendous opportunity for you!
What you need to have:
Bachelor's degree in business or technology field or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 3 plus years of previous project management experience in a client facing/consulting role
Knowledge of and proven experience in project management processes and methodologies
Experience with matrix management of cross-functional processes and teams
What would be great to have:
- Responsible for all aspects of the client implementation and provides a single point of contact for those projects.
- Take projects from original concept through final implementation working directly with Client s clients and external customers.
- Provides a holistic view of the overall project to the organization and all partners by defining success criteria upfront to ensure a predictable, consistent project delivery.
- Engage in project planning activities, including but not limited to: Defining the overall scope of the project; Crafting and maintaining a consolidated timeline/schedule highlighting the major project objectives and associated dates for project activities; Identifying and communicating project dependencies and impacts; and putting mechanisms in place to ensure ongoing control of the project (E.g., Kick off meeting, overall Project Management Approach, Communication Plan, Risk Management, Issues Management, Change Control, etc.)
- Define project governance, outlining roles, responsibilities, decision rights and clearly defined critical issue path.
- Actively communicate the project s progress on an ongoing basis, ensuring visibility throughout project lifecycle.
- Provide leadership during solution delivery to project resources, partners, and stakeholders with information to make effective, timely decisions.
- Facilitate alignment and approach for all related Client s business areas.
- Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done through formal channels and the informal network.
- Prepare and conduct informal and formal presentations.
- Effective in communication and organization while leading multiple projects assignments.
- Displays strong understanding of the organization's business strategies and apply knowledge to all project activities.
- Builds relationships with all functional areas and manages stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to author comprehensive scope and solutions documents with input from technical resources.
- Travel required: 10%
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