Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Warsaw, IN

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $59.00 - $59.00/hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. Client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.

Job Description:

Job Summary

This position will provide project management support to various initiatives across the company, including: Operations integrations, Quality remediations, Process improvements, System implementations, Various other strategic initiatives

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement M&A integration plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources pool, milestones, deliverables and end-of-integration success criteria
• Lead integration initiatives and teams to realize synergies and/or execute functional area transitions
• Drive day-to-day execution of the overall integration process, including coaching cross-functional teams and leading weekly integration team meetings to ensure activity plans remain relevant and are being executed
• Implement the integration scorecard to track progress toward goals
• Prepare and conduct project status reports to update executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues
• Provide direction, oversight and coaching to M&A integrations consultants and contractors
• Manages project execution to achieve project deliverables within the budget
• Reviews deliverables prepared by other project team members to assure quality and provide additional insight and perspective

Expected Areas of Competence (i.e. KSAs)

• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong skills in change management, meeting facilitation and conflict resolution
• Strong presentation and client management skills
• The ability to talk confidently about the issues and success factors relating to such projects
• Consulting skills: ability to function in an ambiguous, unstructured, fast moving and rapidly changing environment, make quick sense of it and add value beyond just a task-oriented doer or project manager; strong oral and written communication skills; superior problem solving and analytical skills.
• Project Management Technical Skills: strong understanding of critical PM concepts such as activity plans, milestones, task dependencies, risk and issue tracking, status reporting. Formal project management training and/or certification preferred.

Education/Experience

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 5 years professional work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of cross-functional project management experience
• Must possess an established track record of effective project management

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.