Remote - Project Manager

Remote - Project Manager

25 Nov 2024
Louisiana, New orleans, 70113 New orleans USA

Remote - Project Manager

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CompuGain is an Information Technology and Business Consulting firm providing project-based solutions, software solutions and professional staffing services. -Position: Project Manager
Duration: 6+ Months Contract (Very High Possibility Extension)Note: This position is remote. Client is located in New Orleans, LA and the Newark, NJ and need onsite when needed.Job Description:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to lead large, complex IT projects. The successful candidate will bring significant experience to plan, coordinate and manage all functions and activities necessary to execute the project to meet the customer requirements.This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, monitoring, and implementing complex large scale IT projects to meet organizational goals. This person will maintain the efficiency of important aspects of the project management process such as planning, budget, and risk assessment. The ideal candidate is required to have excellent project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from vision to implementation involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.Responsibilities:

  • Plan, coordinate and manage large projects.
  • Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements.
  • Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
  • Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.
  • Provide strong, proactive and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects
  • Makes decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis
  • Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project
  • Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources
  • Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures
  • Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables
  • Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards
  • Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope. Monitors and tracks project dependencies
  • Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables
  • Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals
  • Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates
  • Actively monitor, track and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Required Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or similar degree
  • 8+ years of Project Management experience managing IT application or infrastructure projects
  • Utility experience required
  • Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships and external networks
  • Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed
  • Excellent customer facing skills
  • Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool
  • Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Desired Qualifications:
  • Active PMP certification
  • Primavera P6 certification desirable

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Regards,
Praveen Vaante
CompuGain
12901 Worldgate Drive, Suite 510
Herndon, Virginia 20170
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Job Details

  • ID
    JC23463917
  • State
  • City
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    $60 - $65 hr
  • Hiring Company
    CompuGain Corporation
  • Date
    2021-11-24
  • Deadline
    2022-01-23
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