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Title:  Sr. Project Manager

Location: Atlanta or Minneapolis

Duration: Long term

 Candidates must be local to either Atlanta or Minneapolis. They must also have experience working on long term projects. We have a much higher probability of receiving an interview request if the candidate has airline or hospitality experience. 

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

Overview:

The purpose of the Sr. Project Manager position is to provide direction and leadership to project team members for large sized systems projects that are moderate to high complexity. The Sr. Project Manager will ensure project delivers positive business value and meet committed scope, cost, schedule and quality business results. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Strong track record managing IT projects and formal project management knowledge as well as ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines

Ability to build and maintain cohesive motivated teams

Ability to coach and develop subordinates and/or peers

Experience with stakeholder management.

Strong business and strategic planning skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to make effective presentations and communicate technical concepts to non-technical clients

Excellent planning, organizational and leadership skills

Strong interpersonal and influencing skills

Strong consulting and customer service skills

Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders 

Ability to provide financial forecast and on-going reconciliation of resources and other project related expenditures

Responsibilities:

Manages and is an advocate for the entire project

Communicates appropriately and effectively to stakeholders, gaining trust and building consensus

Help Business Partners and Business Users understand their roles and responsibilities within the project

Obtains appropriate stage-gate approvals from business and IT sponsor

Ensures team understands the business benefits of the project and connects the project to the broader organizational goals

Work with stakeholders to confirm understanding before drawing conclusions

Requests the needed people for a project and get them oriented to work on the project

Develops and executes an overall project schedule, including tasks, duration, dependencies, and resource assignments

Controls and tracks changes to scope, time, cost, quality, issues and risk

Manages completion of project objective, such as procurement, quality planning, service level agreements, and customer training

Ensures product deliverables' quality, such as functional specifications, logical and physical data design, solution design and detailed design, test plans, and completed solution

Resolves issues in a timely manner. When appropriate, escalate problems and issues to stakeholders and sponsor

Evaluates risks, assess possible outcomes and solves problems

Manages vendor relationships according to contract terms and conditions and works with vendors as needed

Responds to terms or conditions not being met

Monitors individual performance, maintains team morale and provide feedback to resource managers

Recognizes and reward desirable individual and team performance

Directs and delegates work effort 

Contributes to IT PMO's methodology and practice areas

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree is preferred

8+ years IT experience or related business experience

5+ years project lead experience

$1-$3+ million in project budget

PMP certification preferred

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