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Job Title: Project Manager * 10-15 years of Project Management experience

Location: WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ 07677, USA

Duration: 16 Months

Pay Rate: $40 - $52.50/hr.

Shift: Monday - Friday (8:00am - 5:00pm)

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Responsible for Project Management activities for their assigned project

· The ideal candidate must have strong project management experience in a global setting, having worked in multiple technology domains

· Candidate must be a strong self-starter as well as able to manage competing priorities

· He/she must possess excellent leadership, problem solving and communication skills (written, verbal, and instant) while able to build and maintain strong working relationships within a global, culturally diverse environment

Primary Responsibilities:

· Reads, owns and manages project delivery for assigned projects

· Responsible for project planning and execution using project artifacts to include MS Project plans, schedules & resource plans

· Ensure projects are delivered within the agreed upon schedule, budget, and quality constraints

· Accountable for addressing external and cross team internal dependencies, mitigation and resolution of project level risks and issues

· Escalates to Project Owner and Executive Sponsors as necessary

· Acts as the communications conduit to Project Owner, Sponsors and Steering Committee by conducting periodic briefings/status updates as well as providing support and guidance for general communications to key stakeholders

· Builds and maintains a comprehensive Project Plan/Schedule with Project Schedule rollups

· Ensures all Projects adheres to the Program/Project Management Quality Framework, the Global PMO policies and procedures, and other compliance processes where applicable

· Produces weekly status along with financial reporting and metrics

· Identifies and manages dependencies

· Continuously monitors plan focusing on activities and milestones at risk

· Facilitates population of risk register and keeps risk management plan up to date

· Provides proactive communication of project risks

· Creates alerts to notify project Sponsor and Steering Committee of upcoming due dates and emerging issues

· Creates status reports, dashboards, milestone reviews, and ad hoc reports

· Participates in deliverable creation as necessary – especially business analysis and user story creation

· Validates and approves deliverables

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree

Skills:

· 10-15 years of Project Management experience

· Experience in managing multiple parallel work streams

· Strong organizational, leadership, problem solving and influencing skills

· Strong interpersonal (relationship building), written and verbal communication

· Sensitivity to future Organizational Change and multi-cultural characteristics of Global IT organization

· Strong Microsoft Office, including Visio, MS Project, Power Point and SharePoint skills required

· PMI/PMP certification desirable

· Scrum Master experience, certification desirable

· Business Analysis experience desirable

· User story experience desirable

Contract length: 16 months

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $33.00 - $55.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• PMP (Preferred)

Work Remotely:

• No