Responsibilities
- Works with the Connection sales subsidiaries to successfully deliver medium to large moderately complex projects.
- Utilizes independent judgment and discretion while following a predefined project management methodology to deliver all projects.
- Creates, controls and drives project execution utilizing the appropriate pre-defined project management lifecycle methodologies.
- Serves as the primary point of contact for project communication and ensures all phases of the project are followed.
- May assist clients and the sales team in planning, scoping, scheduling, and determining project requirements during the pre-sales phase.
- Responsible for contributing to the development of the team by mentoring less experienced project managers.
- Travel may be required to kick off a project, run pilots, discuss project milestone reviews, or to attend customer meetings.
- Develops relevant project artifacts to deliver contractual services utilizing judgment and discretion based on the agreed deliverables.
- Utilizes and manages internal resources and third-party service providers to fulfill project requirements.
- Proactively manages project scope, budget and schedule.
- Proactively mitigates risks and issues.
- Uses problem solving skills on escalated issues.
- Acts as a primary point of contact for the project.
- Mentors less experienced project managers.
- May manage internal company projects.
- Confirms milestone completions and ensures time and expenses are entered correctly and validated following Connection PMO’s best practices and established processes.
- Updates systems and PMO Manager as required.
- Performs or oversees billing submissions.
- Performs administrative closing of projects per prescribed project management methodology.
- Fulfills weekly status and portfolio reporting requirements.
Requirements
- Experience derived from 7 plus years of progressive project management with IT professional services and third-party vendors.
- Must have experience in leading projects with demonstrated strong collaborative partnership skills working across multiple teams, clients, and managing partners/vendors.
- Proactively Identify, prioritize, resolve, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate, and realign priorities as necessary to meet project deliverables and deadlines.
- Strong project management skills to manage scope, budget, and schedule.
- Advanced organization and time management skills to keep all projects on track and within budget.
- Provide project status reporting and updates to management team and key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in project change management to manage project scope, schedule, and budget.
- Experience in project closure activities including Lessons learned and project survey.
- Ability to listen, anticipate needs of the customer, and proactively manage expectations.
- Proven project management experience creating project artifacts including budget, roster, risk register, mitigation plan, schedule, and communication plan.
- Ability to manage shifting priorities, make sound decision, negotiation, and attention to details.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to compose and present professional business communications.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- PMP mandatory or the ability to obtain PMP within first 6 months in the role.
