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Project Manager
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Job Description
Job purpose/summary
This role will ensure projects meet objectives on time and budget with an increase in employee adoption by focusing on the changes to business processes, systems, and technology. Overall, this role contributes to projects that ultimately work to move the organization forward and provide improvements across the business. This role has the ultimate responsibility to manage customer satisfaction, deliverables, definition, planning, monitoring, and other aspects of projects.
Duties and responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
- Managing appropriate business participation in projects
- Managing the full project life cycle including requirements gathering, creation of project plans and schedules, obtaining and managing resources, managing budget, and facilitating project execution, deployment, and closure
- Providing regular project updates to team and management on work performed, plans, budget, and status
- Reporting to customers, project team, supervisors, and other key staff
- Providing direct project management support for high impact initiatives
- Playing a key role in project estimating, planning, budgeting, project production, project monitoring, variance tracking, and identifying resources as needed
- Ensuring clear and timely communication of project plan, goals, budget estimates, and risks along with the progress of the project
- Conducting advanced planning, agenda development, and coordination of materials for key go-to-market meetings
- Providing status reports to allow the team to meet project schedules and budgets or making appropriate and timely adjustments
Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
- Engaging and managing various business units
- Ensuring responsible budget and initiative cost management based on business benefits targeted
- Using enterprise change management principles in projects
- Establishing effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution
- Possessing excellent analytical skills to work on project budget and other reporting
- Working to drive adoption & change management and deliver projects on time
- Direct experience in business analysis and project leadership and management skills
- Overseeing and reporting the status of projects, including project risks
- Business Process Improvement
- Process Management
- IT Project Management
- Time Management
- Business Process Change
- Change Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Business Management
- Product Information Management
- General Management
- Operational Risk Management
- Financial Management
- New Business Development
- Information Management
- Product Management
Tools and technologies
- Web-based Software
- Embedded Services
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Suite
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Power BI
- Computer Applications
- Web Applications
- Project Server
- MS Office
- Information Systems
- Communications System
Reporting relationship
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Direct reports (if appropriate)
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Qualifications
Education
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Certifications
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Other relevant qualifications
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Key Attributes
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Experience
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Working conditions (if required)
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Physical requirements (if appropriate)
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