Location: Chicago, IL
Schedule: Hybrid, in Office 3x Week
Position Type: Contract

Job Summary:
* The role of the Sr. Project Manager is to apply knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques throughout the entire project lifecycle in to deliver projects succesfully with high quality.
* This requires planning, managing team and project progress, collaborating and communicating with multiple stakeholders, and resolving any issues timely and effectively.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Define project scope, goals and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
* Develop project plans, timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
* Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
* Identify, obtain and adjust resources needed to achieve project goals.
* Negotiate with department managers for the acquisition of required personnel
* Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
* Delegate tasks and assignments to appropriate team members.
* Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
* Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
* Track progress on project milestones, deliverables, timeline and budget
* Manage cross-functional teams effectivelly
* Collaborate with different areas of IT and the business to provide appropriate solutions for the Bank
* Provide escalation path for problems, issues, or risks that project teams cannot resolve or manage on their own, such as a shortage of funding, resources, or deadlines that cannot be met
* Follows Bank's delivery and governance framework during the entire delivery lifecycle

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
* Must have experience using MS Office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point)
* 6-8 years of experience in project management
* 4 year or higher in Business or a technical discipline required
* Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification desired.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES & BEHAVIORS:
* Strong written and oral communication skills
* Organized with attention to detail
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
* Ability to influence stakehodlers
* Ability to defuse tension among project team
* Ability to bring project to successful completion, addressing any challenges along the way
* Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products
* Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies
* Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
* Highly self-motivated and directed
* Results driven with a keen attention to detail
* Ability to absorb and retain information quickly
* Ability to present ideas in user-friendly way
* Ability to problem solve and think critically
* Ability to deal with difficult situations

Requirements:
* Hands-on PM experience managing middle to large scale enterprise level technology projects
* Having experience in Agile, PMP related knowledge, DevOps, SAFe and the like would be beneficial but not required.
* Anyone whose used ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, Aha, JIRA, MS office suite etc. would be big bonus
* Will be responsible for varying sized projects including some large scale enterprise wide initiatives and expected to follow project from inception to deployment with minimal supervision
* Must be confident and comfortable with executive interaction
* Understanding of technical projects but does not need to have an specific technology skills
* Must be proficient in: PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Word
* Knowledge of Agile and Change Management
* How to address different situations
* 7 years of experience
* Need to be humble but aggressive enough to move things forward

Salary/Rate: $110 hr