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Our client has an opening for a Senior Project Manager who will be responsible for project management leadership initiatives.  This position resides Enterprise Project Management Office and will be focused on Web Development and Mobile Dev projects in an Agile environment. 

Responsibilities

• Leader skilled and responsible for partnering with the project owner/sponsor and all stakeholders to create and implement appropriate and cost efficient solutions based on business objectives.  
• Assists in identification of project’s business value; ongoing monitoring of value attainment within the project lifecycle and development of realization tracking method. 
• Acts as project manager, with leadership responsibilities for a matrixed team on medium to large sized projects.  Manages results as outlined in the project’s triple constraints of budget, schedule and scope (objective/quality/performance.)
• Represents team recommendations to Senior Management, demonstrate influence over governance bodies, and communicate effectively via formal presentations.
• Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders.  Understands business area opportunities and challenges, process or system impacts to all related business or systems areas when implementing recommended solution to obtain business objectives.
• Initiates and ensures project management and methodologies are followed and change management procedures and supporting tools are used in executing all projects as appropriate.
• Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation and efficient utilization; negotiates resource conflicts with other project managers or resources managers as appropriate.  Escalates as necessary.
• Communicates technical issues, impact, and risk mitigation strategies in business terminology that can be communicated to and understood by non-technical.
• Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution.  Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation.   Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks.
• Creates and maintains project plan (charters and schedules), and reviews them with the appropriate Group Company IT, business partners and steering committees. This includes tracking plans against agreed upon resource levels, timelines and budgets.
• Responsible for facilitating vendor identification, selection and contracting with project owner, Vendor Management, Legal and Financial areas.  Maintains ongoing management of vendor throughout the life of the project.

Experience

• 10+ years of project management experience guiding medium to large sized (12-24 month, $5-$10+ million) projects to implementation.
• Experience managing web development/ mobile development projects in an Agile environment. 
• Experience managing 3rd party vendors in development, testing and staff augmentation
• Working knowledge or experience in managing Agile or Iterative development projects desired
• Experience in technical infrastructure projects and/or component deliverables
• Project Management Institute PMP Certification desired