Project Manager

We are looking for Project Manager for our client in Springfield, MA

Job Title: Project Manager

Job Location: Springfield, MA

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range $84.65hr - $89.65hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 1 years of experience in program management.
• Experience with integrated program planning and execution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Own the integrated program plan across all tracks schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical path.
• Drive the daily and weekly execution cadence standups, iteration planning, demos, retrospectives.
• Enforce entry/exit gates between delivery phases no development starts without readiness criteria being met.
• Manage cross-track dependencies and sequencing ensuring parallel and sequenced tracks do not destabilize each other.
• Own the SteerCo agenda, pre-read, and follow-up ensuring the steering committee is a decision engine, not a status meeting.
• Drive the re-baselining effort establishing velocity baselines and validating the target delivery date within the first 90 days.
• Own risk, issue, and action management surfacing problems early, escalating with recommendations, and driving resolution.
• Manage the operating rhythm across US-based and XX-based teams including enforcing the guided execution model for offshore delivery.
• Partner with the Business Sponsor (acting Product Owner) to ensure decisions are made, documented, and translated into stable requirements.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting program status, quality metrics, velocity trends, risk dashboards for delivery leadership and senior stakeholders.

Qualification And Education:

• Experience with structured iterative delivery models.
• Ability to lead cross-track coordination and dependency management.
• Experience in governance and escalation processes.
• Experience managing distributed teams.

Salary : $85 - $90