Drives all aspects of IT Project, Program, and Portfolio activity, including collaborating and coordinating
across all IT and business segments. Defines project value proposition, scope, work plan, resource needs,
timeline and budget for IT projects. Manages resources (i.e., capital requirements and human capital, etc.)
to complete project/program on time and within budget. Keeps team and leadership updated on project
status and risk factors. Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables. Provides
technical and process guidance to project team.
Required Skills & Experience
Knowledge:
- Organizational expert within defined subject area.
- Integrates deep subject matter expertise with:
- Industry experience.
- In-depth knowledge of professional standards and trends within area of expertise.
- Relevant related disciplines.
- Business goals and strategy.
- Understands impact of emerging business trends and their implications for the company and its
customers.
Problem Solving:
- Develops solutions to complex business problems or customer engagements through in-depth analysis,
coordination and negotiation with key decision makers.
- Uses experience, innovation and judgment to make decisions that may be based on partial information.
- Adapts and integrates own experience with company strategy.
- Analyzes and forecasts business and market trends.
- Develops innovative solutions to problems without precedent.
- Invents new products and processes to achieve strategic business objectives.
- Decisions are strategic in nature, have long-term consequence, and tend to relate to business strategy,
financial performance and effective resource utilization.
Guidance:
- Guided by business plans and strategy.
- Executes goals and strategy within area of responsibility.
- Contributes to strategic decisions affecting the discipline.
- Initiates new or revised departmental procedures, programs and initiatives.
- Assesses and determines priorities within area of expertise.
- Structures and implements changes within the context of established strategy.
- Plans implementation of major change efforts.
- Leads large scale, global programs that contribute to the corporation's success.
Relationships:
- Contributes to business results through quality of results, advice and decisions.
- Develops standards around which others will operate.
- Designs and develops global processes, systems and/or applications.
- Contributes to the company's thought leadership.
Influences a broad spectrum of stakeholders toward achieving business goals.
- Builds consensus.
- Ensures understanding of technical matters by non-technical, executive decision makers.
- Develops mutually beneficial strategic alliances with customers.
- Advises and councils key leadership on the latest principles, practices, and/or technologies and their
practical application
Experience:
8-10 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Additional Skills:
- Advanced understanding of IT Project Management principles and techniques; preferred certification.
- Extensive experience in managing change and engaging team members.
- Advanced ability to provide direction and leadership to others.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills.
Certifications
- PMP or PRINCE 2 strongly preferred.
location: New Britain, Connecticut
job type: Contract
salary: $60 - 75 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Drives the development and execution of project plan by working with project team to define, sequence,
and estimate duration of activities and determine schedules to meet project objectives.
- Ensures consistency and adherence to standards, processes, and policies for all projects.
- Manages all aspects of the project execution including: chartering, scope definition, requirements
gathering, project planning, change control, risk management and reporting.
- Facilitates and manages resource planning, cost estimation, budget development, and cost control.
- Manages the identification, resolution and escalation of project risks and issues.
- Tracks project budget and resource utilization against plan.
- Plans and performs project communications ensuring timely and accurate distribution of information,
documentation, and issue resolution to all appropriate team members.
- May be responsible for multiple Project Managers dedicated to a common project or fewer large/highly
complex Projects/Deliverables.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Manager
- Minimum 7 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
skills:
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