Project Manager

Position: Project Manager Date Posted: February 3, 2020 Open: Until filled Location: Houston, TX

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for managing software implementation and consulting services projects. The Project Manager will lead a variety of different types of projects including application configuration and implementation, system integration, and subject matter consulting and assessments. This includes ensuring project results are of the highest caliber, with a clearly articulated scope and quantifiable business benefit/value realization.

Specific Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Manages project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Understands the business benefits of a project by grasping business performance indicators and mapping them to goals of IT projects.
• Maintains relevant metrics that help the client and team see how they are doing (project plan, status reporting, resource planning, sprint burn down charts, etc.).
• Proven capability of managing multiple priorities effectively and efficiently with ability to perform under tight deadlines and demonstrate problem solving approach while maintaining strong integrity
• Manages, and appropriately escalates, delivery impediments, risks and issues, including reaching out to the larger company network for impediment removal.
• Coordinates the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan.
• Conducts project retrospectives and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Acts as an agile Project Manager with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work, servant leadership.
• Acts a liaison between developers and operations teams and fosters better communication between the functions, ensuring cross-team coordination.
• Executes projects according to SOWs and produces memos and invoices as directed in SOW.
• Minimizes impact of change on project delivery.
• Ensures end user needs are met to drive adoption.
• Adheres to internal standards, policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 5 years of experience in project management with an emphasis on software implementation, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Advanced decision-making skills and exercises good judgment regarding when and how to escalate issues.
• Excellent communication skills required to interface with multiple levels of the organization.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to clearly articulate issues and concerns and recommend solutions to management.
• Knowledge and experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Kanban, Kaizen, Servant Leadership a plus.
• Takes accountability and demonstrates effective judgment and learning agility.
• Encourages collaboration and easily gains trust and support of peers.
• Strong interpersonal skills; able to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team (customers, developers, testers, business analysts, managers, executives, etc.) at all levels.
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills.
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
• Must be self-aware and willing to adapt to changing work environment.
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to read communication styles of clients, team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervises others: No Has hiring and terminating responsibilities: No

Travel Requirements:

Travels: Yes Percent of time: 30%

Minimum Candidate Skills:

• Self-starter who is detail-oriented, organized and able to work independently while supporting the needs of the team.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Flexibility to accommodate a dynamic schedule particularly during quarter end close cycles.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt and stay on task during extended periods with little or no direct supervision.

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