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Job Title: Project Manager - IMS 

Practice: PMO 

Exempt Status: Exempt 

Purpose 

The Project Manager - IMS will be responsible for managing small to medium sized technology implementation projects with low to medium complexity. This position reports to the Practice Director or a Managing Principle within the Apps Associates PMO. 

Job Duties 

• Collaborate with client contacts managing cross-functional client project team members to facilitate project delivery 

• Collaborate with Apps Associates project team members, who are both onshore and offshore, to successfully deliver projects 

• Manage the execution of the project's activities and resources in partnership with the practice technical leads and business partners 

• Lead project teams through scoping definition and ensure all execution efforts align to project goals. 

• Lead project team through the production execution of upgrade and migrations which may take place over weekends 

• Lead the establishment of measurable and achievable critical success factors for the project 

• Control planning and execution to ensure that cost, time, and quality goals are met 

• Develop and maintain project plans and related project artifacts 

• Provide view of plans and progress to date 

• Manage against the approved budget and recommend course correction as necessary. 

• Ensure project financial metrics are up to date consistently including project baselines, change orders, estimate to complete and estimate at complete 

• Conduct periodic stakeholder meetings to ensure status clarity and clear expectations 

• Adhere to the Apps Associates project management methodology 

• Possesses the ability to turn troubled projects around when and if needed 

• Utilize Apps Associates internal application technology for project management functions including Project Management, Estimating, Resourcing, and others. 

• Make continuous improvement a priority - The Project Manager should have a solid grasp of basic and many advanced project management principles, along with having experience in successfully applying and advancing those principles. 

Travel Requirements 

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 75% if needed 

Work Requirements 

• Remote work approved with on-site/customer facing work required periodically depending on project phase and/or customer requirements 

• For remote work, associate must have a dedicated space to conduct/attend meetings and perform job duties 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience. (focus in Business Administration or Information Systems preferred) 

• 4+ years of consulting experience, most recently in a Senior Consultant, Manager, or similar level role 

• Leadership of a minimum of four (3) full life-cycle implementations in the Project Manager role 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Strong time management, organization, and collaboration skills  

• Proficiency with project management tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet (preferred) 

• Proficiency with the Microsoft suite of business productivity tools (for example: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, One Note, Teams) 

• Strong understanding of the cloud software development lifecycle including waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies. 

Project Management/Technology Experience Requirements: 

The Project Manager must have project management and/or hands on experience with at least two (2) of the following technologies: 

• Infrastructure Project Management 

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 

• Amazon AWS 

• Microsoft Azure 

• Oracle Database migration and/or upgrades 

• ERP upgrade/migration experience 

• Oracle Cloud ERP (Fusion, SCM, Financials) 

• Oracle HCM or Oracle PeopleSoft 

• Oracle EBS 

• Other relevant experience 

• Oracle Fusion Middleware 

• Custom Software Development (within the Enterprise space) 

• Integration technologies such Boomi, Mulesoft, Oracle Cloud Integration Service or equivalent 

• Salesforce implementation experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• PMP Certification (PMP, PGMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP) 

• Oracle Cloud Project Management Practitioner 

• AWS Cloud Practioner 

General Requirements 

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following: 

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision. 

• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers. 

• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments. 

• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations. 

Note: Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability veteran status or other protected class.  Apps Associates is an at-will employer.   Nothing in this job description shall be interpreted to be in conflict with or to eliminate or modify the at will employment status. 

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