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Location: Providence, RI
Salary: EXCELLENT
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Project Manager-REMOTE
Our client is currently seeking a REMOTE/Project Manager
• Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new and upgrading existing products.
• Define scope of effort required to meet project objectives.
• Deliver technology projects based on predefined process and strategy.
• Define activities, sequences of events, dependencies and duration of tasks required to complete the project.
• Executes multiple parallel projects, managing dependencies between projects and between product development and customer delivery teams.
• Manage resources and materials committed to the project.
• Provide direction and decision making for problem resolution.
• Implement corporate operating procedures including communication, documentation, quality, and change control processes.
• Coordinate, approve and track all project related expenses including all hours, materials and services.
• Assess and manage risk of strategic, technical, financial, and/or business factors facing the project. • Coordinate across all corporate departments and disciplines to ensure timely and quality deliverables to the project.
• Coordinate all project matters and monitor on a daily basis; assign/delegate tasks as appropriate.
• Report progress in writing on a weekly basis.
• Identify internal and external factors jeopardizing the project, escalate issues and recommend solutions to senior management.
• Analyze, review, forecast and report project spending.
• Coordinate post project reviews with a view to improve future projects performance.
• This role manages specific projects that have a distinct beginning and end.
• Bachelor's degree (preferably in Management, Business, Engineering or Information Technology)
• 7 years experience, with at least 5 years of project management experience with demonstrated success delivering systems including experience managing schedules, budgets, and scope.
• Experience delivering multiple projects in parallel.
• External customer &/or Senior Management facing skills; strong written & verbal communication skills
• Experience of managing multi-functional virtual on/offshore teams
• Excellent leadership skills and team focus
• Sound understanding of project management methodologies (e.g. Prince 2 or PMP) and application development methodologies (e.g. Waterfall / Agile / Iterative / Hybrid development)
• Ability to assist in defining and implementing process improvements for project management
• Must have intermediate to advanced proficiency using MS Project and MS Office.
• Experience with project management scheduling tools, such as MS Project or Clarity
• Experience with Atlassian Jira.
