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Job Title: IS Project Manager

Location: Cary, NC or Cleveland, OH (The work will be mostly remote, but we need candidates in one of these locations for occasional meetings.)

Duration: 11+ Months (Strong potential for conversion/extension, but this is a long-term project.)

Main Accountabilities:

CLIENT is looking for senior IS Project Manager with experience managing IS projects in a global environment, utilizing both Agile and Waterfall methods. The senior IS Project Manager will primarily be responsible for running CLIENT’s larger and more complex IS projects; ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality are met according to global KPI measurements.

Key areas of accountability include:

· Ensure successful delivery of the IS project; closely collaborating with the business project manager on overall project success and all required project documentation

· Plan, schedule, coordinate, and deliver the IS project outcomes to time, scope, cost, and quality

· Monitor and control project financials, including oversight of budget consumption and project invoicing

· Provide external contractor/consultant engagement management in terms of ensuring execution of the agreed delivery proposal; inclusive of ensuring contract and claims management is in accordance with contractual agreements

· Ensure appropriate CLIENT IS Project Management standards, methods and processes are followed

· Proactively work with IS and business leadership to establish project management plans (plan projects, objectives, value/benefits, scope, timeline, resources, cost, and risks) for assigned projects

· Ensure consistent project communications, including formal project status reporting on performance against plan and expected business outcomes

· Proactively manage project issues and scope changes to minimize the impact on the comprehensive portfolio execution plan

· Actively seek to find and manage interdependencies between projects, ensuring proactive collaboration between the projects as well as proactive engagement and management of global and local project participants and stakeholders

· Adeptly identify and manage project risks, ensuring appropriate risk mitigation plans are in place and schedules are managed according to the risk conditions

· In conjunction with CLIENT’s global IS service delivery model, collaborate with Workforce and Service Managers to ensure successful delivery of assigned projects

· Liaison with the IS Run organization to ensure timely planning and engagement of hand over to operations as a part of the overall project plan

· Facilitate project close out, including value delivery assessments and capture of key lessons learned

Basic Qualifications:

· Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, Business, or related field

· 8-10+ years of experience managing programs and projects

· PMP® certification or similar

Subordinates:

· Direct: 1-30 (Project Dependent)

· Indirect: 1-5 (Ongoing Mentoring and Development of junior PMs)

· Budget Responsibility: Expected sum of active projects budgets $1-50 MUSD

· Strategic Initiative (program), Risk/impact: Medium to High/ Medium to High (Project Dependent)

· Program/Process Scope: Americas applications and infrastructure environment

· Organization Coverage: All CLIENT Divisions and Business Units

· Geographical Coverage: Americas Region

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: $50.00 - $70.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 8 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Managing programs and projects: 8 years (Preferred)
• Agile and Waterfall methods: 8 years (Preferred)
• Project Manager: 8 years (Preferred)
• Financial: 8 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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