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Job Summary:
CompuNet, Inc. is an engineering-led IT solution provider that offers consulting, design, and professional services. They are seeking a Project Manager to manage Microsoft projects, ensuring successful delivery and adherence to program requirements while collaborating with various teams to achieve customer outcomes.
Responsibilities:
• Display effective organization skills in planning, coordinating, and managing multiple projects (within the same customer or with multiple customers), while working within potential resource constraints and addressing competing priorities.
• Demonstrate attention to detail in the customization of deliverable templates and creation of project support materials, often developed in CompuNet’s brand or a specific customer brand.
• Proofread and contribute content to project deliverables, ensuring they meet quality standards and customer expectations as outlined in the Statement of Work (SOW).
• Collaborate with the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Technical Sales Specialists to understand [and monitor changes to] Microsoft's incentive and investment funding programs and partnership requirements. For each applicable project, guarantee the completion of all milestones and necessary documentation to receive program funding.
• Ensure predictable, consistent, and high-quality project delivery across all active customer projects, while adhering to industry best practices.
• Exhibit proactive behavior by engaging with Service Delivery Managers to:
• Ensure the correct setup of project tickets and hours budgets in ConnectWise,
• Efficiently manage project budgets, expenses, and resources to meet delivery targets, and
• Close out project phases and deliver customer invoices.
• Develop trusted working relationships and promote team building — ultimately leading to clear expectations and a balanced workload between the Project Manager, Architects, Engineers, and the customer’s technical team.
• Show the value of effective project management through action; encourage consistent and meaningful utilization of the project management role on Modern Work projects.
• Work with minimal supervision – management will be provided by the Senior Manager of Project Management with support and direction from the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Managing Director of Service Portfolio.
• Complete recurring project planning and management activities, including but not limited to:
• Hosting internal and customer-facing project kickoff meetings.
• Defining project governance – outlining roles, responsibilities, levels of decision-making, and a clearly defined escalation path for risks and issues.
• Defining project success criteria – ensuring alignment between CompuNet and the customer.
• Creating and maintaining project plans – understanding the purpose, scope, and sequence of the project; converting understanding into a consolidated timeline highlighting major milestones, deliverables, and associated dates for project activities.
• Identifying and communicating inter- and intra- project dependencies and impacts.
• Overseeing project scheduling, coordination, and logistics, including participant identification and the development/distribution of communications plans.
• Developing biweekly status reports and participating in status meetings – proactively communicating project progress, planned activities, risks, and issues on an on-going basis, ensuring transparency, and alignment to customer expectations.
• Mitigate ‘scope creep’ by enforcing project boundaries agreed upon in the SOW and, when necessary, facilitate the development and approval of Project Change Requests.
• Conduct weekly status meetings with CompuNet project teams – to document recent accomplishments and upcoming activities, track actual performance against project plans and budgets, analyze variances, and identify potential risks, issues, and resource conflicts.
• Conduct post-project reviews and lessons learned sessions to capture insights and improve project delivery processes.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or 4+ years of work experience.
• 1 to 3 years of previous project management and/or relevant consulting experience.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in project management processes and methodologies, as well as program lifecycles.
Preferred:
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management credentials.
• Agile project management methodology certification or training (such as CSM, PMI-ACP, AgilePM, etc.).
• Experience driving projects with a duration of 3 to 12 months with many stakeholders, participants, and a high degree of complexity.
• Experience working in a matrix-management model with cross-functional teams, multiple leaders, and dynamic roles.
• Knowledge of the changing demands of Microsoft Partner Programs and/or experience adhering to their funding requirements from a project delivery perspective.
• Career experience in a position with detailed time accounting and billable hours requirements.
Company:
CompuNet is a leading value-added reseller and managed service provider for information technology solutions, with offices in the Western US and headquartered in Meridian, Idaho. Founded in 1998, the company is headquartered in Meridian, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.