Responsibilities
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with business partners to analyze business and functional requirements in preparation for building a business case and/or initiating a project.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish requests from the underlying true needs.
- Negotiate with stakeholders or vendors to obtain resources or materials (e.g. staff/skills, funding, training, and hardware/software).
- Work independently with business and technology personnel to define concepts and approaches for planning, analyzing, executing, and transitioning project deliverables.
- Strong analytical and business skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Successfully establish and execute a project management plan and sub-plans including schedule, charter, budget, resources, etc.
- Monitor and control the project through the use of issue logs, risk assessments and mitigation, change management, status reports, and communication plans.
- Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
- Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
- Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
- Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.
- Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.
- Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
- Transition project deliverables to operations and ensure project objectives were met.
- Serves as the liaison between UTS and our business partners.
- Facilitate design workshop format and logistics for the requirements and process modeling design.
- Ensure adherence to TPU PMO policies.
- Experience with applying standard project methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies.
- Possess expertise in organization change management, the people side of change, to create a collaborative environment to bring diverse views together for a common approach to business processes and solutions.
- Strong leadership skills.
Requirements
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with business partners to analyze business and functional requirements in preparation for building a business case and/or initiating a project.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish requests from the underlying true needs.
- Negotiate with stakeholders or vendors to obtain resources or materials (e.g. staff/skills, funding, training, and hardware/software).
- Work independently with business and technology personnel to define concepts and approaches for planning, analyzing, executing, and transitioning project deliverables.
- Strong analytical and business skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
- Successfully establish and execute a project management plan and sub-plans including schedule, charter, budget, resources, etc.
- Monitor and control the project through the use of issue logs, risk assessments and mitigation, change management, status reports, and communication plans.
- Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
- Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
- Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
- Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.
- Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.
- Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
- Transition project deliverables to operations and ensure project objectives were met.
- Serves as the liaison between UTS and our business partners.
- Facilitate design workshop format and logistics for the requirements and process modeling design.
- Ensure adherence to TPU PMO policies.
- Experience with applying standard project methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies.
- Possess expertise in organization change management, the people side of change, to create a collaborative environment to bring diverse views together for a common approach to business processes and solutions.
- Strong leadership skills.
- SAP/IS-U business process, Data Center, SOA, telecom, network experience, etc.
Nice to Have
- Master’s degree in business, project management, computer science or a related field
- Six Sigma Greenbelt and or Blackbelt experience and or certifications
Work Arrangement
Remote (City/Region) — Takoma, WA
Additional Information
- Duration: 1+ years
- Client: Direct Client
- Mode of Interview: Phone or In-person
