Strategic Staffing Solutions is hiring a Sr Project Manager w/PMP for our healthcare client in Baton Rouge, LA. Contract position will require you to be onsite weekly.

PMP Project Manager:

This individual contributor position facilitates the coordination of personnel and other resources (e.g. contractors, vendor partners) required to successfully complete a series of individual projects, ensuring the delivery of quality business outcomes including project deliverables, new and improved processes, and services. The Project Manager manages projects of varying complexity and operates in a tightly regulated industry environment.

The SR Project Manager is directly responsible for ensuring the execution of all key steps in project delivery: business, technical and functional requirements elicitation, dependency mapping, milestone projections, task-level program steps, identification and regular publishing of metrics which define project success. The position must regularly monitor work to ensure that projects remain in line with projected costs and timelines. This is accomplished by ensuring the adoption of well-established, industry best practice frameworks and methodologies.

The SR Project Manager is accountable for complying with all laws and regulations associated with duties and responsibilities.

NATURE AND SCOPE

This role does not manage people

This role reports to this job: DIRECTOR, PROJECT EXECUTION

Necessary Contacts: INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS:

- Interfaces directly with client management (business owners and project team members) in negotiation and definition of requirements.

- Negotiates, defines, interprets plan/policy requirements and presents options and processing capabilities to upper level management.

- Provides guidance and direction to all areas placing requirements on the system. Has responsibility for intra-divisional projects with limited cross-department and cross-organization impacts.

- Interfaces frequently with IT, PMO and business leaders. Exercises diplomacy and tact in discussions with client management on controversial subjects.

OUTSIDE RELATIONSHIPS:

- Frequent contact with client management to exchange information and/or make presentations on information systems concepts.

- Reviews and maintains contact with selected user groups with similar problems and user organizations.

-Attends outside technical meetings as directed, making presentations when necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Bachelors in Project Management, Computer Science, or related field. Completion of an approved educational program or four years of related experience may be accepted in lieu of degree

Licenses and Certifications

PMI certification preferred

Work Experience

- 1 year of experience in planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward goals and project outcomes preferred

Skills and Abilities

- Basic degree of competency with PMBOK methodologies and frameworks such as project management, software development life cycle and ITIL. Six Sigma and Organizational development best practices a plus.

- Requires basic knowledge in the field of computer science, including hardware and software products, computer systems, systems analysis, programming, development/maintenance process, and data management for large complex systems.

- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to create and deliver presentations to organization management including Senior Management are required.

- Ability to demonstrate presentation and facilitation skills working with key stakeholders and management including executive management preferred.

- Experience in interpreting and explaining specialized or complex material into information consumable by the public preferred.

- Must have demonstrated ability to analyze business information and process flows, gather relevant requirements and generate business, functional and technical specifications needed for successful delivery.