Primary Talent Partners has a 5 Month Contract with one of our Technology Clients. This role with be remote, but the candidate needs to be located near either Stamford, CT, Fort Myers, FL. or Irving, TX should they need to go to the office
The Project Manager is accountable for managing and overseeing critical program and project areas. This role will lead teams and be accountable for roadmap management and quality delivery of large, complex projects as needed. This includes scope, budget, and stakeholder management as well as ensuring business value realization. This role will ensure that projects are planned and executed in a manner consistent with company strategy, commitments, goals, and standards.
Responsibilities:
Leads and manages teams associated with complex projects of varying types and sizes, applying the appropriate project management principles, techniques, and methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall) tailored to the individual project to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
Drives core project communications including communications plan, status reporting, executive updates, and ad hoc presentations.
Partners closely with business owners and subject matter experts to define project goals, objectives and priorities.
Works with business and product owners and IT managers to ensure that project scope is fully defined, managed and controlled. This includes identifying scope exclusions, tracking business and technical assumptions and communicating constraints.
Conducts project team and stakeholder meetings, appropriately elevating issues of scope, schedule, cost, and customization for executive-level review and disposition.
Identifies and manages project risks and issues, developing plans to assess, manage, track, report, escalate, and mitigate them.
Partners with resource managers to build a resource plan and manages a matrixed team comprised of team members in various locations in the US as well as India.
Identifies and manages cross-project and internal dependencies to ensure alignment and successful delivery of critical milestones.
Partners with the Finance PMO team members to proactively propose process-improvement and best practice initiatives and implement them, when approved. This ensures constant future state thinking vs. “lift and shift”.
Manages all aspects of the project financials.
Management of teams in both matrix and project-team organized environments
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
Goal-oriented, self-directed individual who needs little supervision
Strong team player with the ability to manage others through teamwork and relationship building skills
Strong leadership skills (clear direction, respect, consistency, decisiveness, accountability, conviction, cooperation)
Proven ability to manage geographically dispersed teams
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules and multiple project deliverables
Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders within business and IT, at different levels of the organization
Quick study with the ability to learn and operate effectively in new environments
Critical thinking with excellent judgment and initiative
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Visio, and MS Project (and/or other project management tools)
Proficiency with Google Drive, WebEx and Skype
Experience with Salesforce and/or Apttus CPQ solutions are plus
Experience with JIRA and Confluence a plus
Motivated, high-potential performer, with demonstrated ability to influence and lead.
Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
Able to solve complex problems and successfully manage ambiguity and unexpected change.
Teachable and embracing of best practices and feedback as a means of continuous improvement.
Consistently high achiever marked by perseverance, humility and a positive outlook in the face of challenges.
Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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