IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for an ERP Project Manager to assist with a multi-year high priority project. The candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management.

Tasks

• Utilize the Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

NOTE: Local candidates within 90 minutes of Dimondale, MI ONLY. Relocation not allowed. Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week upon start and there is NO REMOTE ONLY option.

Location: Dimondale, MI

Contract: 1 year

Skills Required:

• 10 years - Experience in Oracle/SAP ERP experience. Global ERP Project Management leading 20 member team with over $750M budget.
• 7 years - In-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standard and best practices.
• 7 years - Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs and have a proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role
• 5 years - Experience using a project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity
• 5 years - Advanced working knowledge of MS Project
• 5 years - Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments.
• 5 years - Experience overseeing Technical Teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.
• 5 years - Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS)
• 5 years - Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• 5 years - Developed and maintained detailed project integration schedules over 5,000 lines.
• 5 years - Prior Developer/Senior Technical Project Management experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Skills Desired A plus to have:

• PMP certification

*** Rate depends on experience

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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