Contractor Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Manages IT projects from start to finish. Projects may consist of one or a combination of implementation or customizations of commercial off-the-shelf insurance software applications, mobile/web technologies, system integrations, software upgrades, Intelligent Automation (RPA), and infrastructure (hardware).
• Manages up to three (3) or more projects simultaneously, depending on project complexity, duration, and lifecycle phase. The average duration of most projects is 6 - 8 months.
• Manages a project team of matrixed resources. Resolves challenges presented by resource and schedule availability in matrixed organizations (project team members, including the PM, are rarely 100% dedicated to a single project).
• Builds a project schedule in MS Project/Project Server that is effort-driven and auto-scheduled.
• Reconciles project team time cards from the time card system with planned hours in the project plan; investigates and resolves variances between planned and actual time reported on time cards; adjusts project task effort/duration with the project plan as necessary to maintain the correct forecast of ETC.
• Maintains and reconciles the project financial forecast in the project financial accounting tool; investigates and resolves variances between forecast and actual project costs. Proactively releases excess project funds if not needed or requests additional funding when necessary due to requested baseline changes.
• Prepares an Initial Charter that describes the project scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables at a high level and defines the target date and cost to complete the project Planning phase.
• Prepares an Amended Charter describing the committed project scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables after completing project planning activities (detailed requirements and design). Adjust estimates made in the Initial Charter as necessary due to discoveries made in Planning.
• Utilizes established Project Change Request processes to manage proactively all requests to change the approved baseline of a project.
• Accurately follows all documented PPM processes, procedures, and templates.
• Anticipates, identifies, and manages project risks, issues, assumptions, and decisions; escalates

Qualifications

• 10+ years of current project management experience delivering IT projects with a minimum budget of $150K.
• Has successfully delivered IT projects from start to finish with timelines of less than 1 year.
• Effort-driven project planning techniques in MS Project.
• Demonstrates high levels of capability in all project management competencies, including planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling IT projects.
• Experience managing vendors, requesting and executing SOWs.
• PMP credential in good standing or plans to obtain PMP within 12 months
• Experience directly managing and forecasting project financials (reconciling invoices, timekeeping, etc.)