IT Project Manager

Job Description:

IT Project Manager Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking an IT Project Manager for an opportunity in New York, NY. The Project Manager will join our client’s Portfolio Management team to support a proprietary PPM Tool developed in-house to manage the Program Portfolio. This application establishes a golden source of project data; allowing for greater consistency, transparency, granularity and traceability in project management. End-users will benefit through an automated, self-service project framework and reporting toolkit. The data is key in understanding and assessing Portfolio Health and providing intelligence for Sr. Management decision making.

Responsibilities:

• Tool Ambassador: create reports, charts, graphics, articles, and other resources that promote the product
• Multi-task & maintain multi-layered communication channels like demos, mass-trainings, town-halls, office hours, Q&A sessions, 1-1 sessions, newsletters/blog posts, release notes, written and video tutorials etc.
• Help users investigate and resolve technical issues
• Metric driven: create, measure, and monitor metrics to ensure that we are always heading in the right direction

Qualifications:

• Understand key Project and Program Management Methodologies and are passionate about creating and improving a product that Project Managers will love
• Empathetic in understanding user experience and can think like the customer using multiple personas and looking at functionalities from different perspectives
• Understand how changes or new features will tie into, or impact our existing platform
• Understand the tradeoffs between various implementation paths and can properly balance the need for product speed and flexibility with the cost of technical debt
• Comfortable interfacing between the end customer and the engineering team, translating customer needs into clear, easy to understand technical requirements. Although your developers may not report to you, they will view you as the Sherpa guiding them up the mountain
• Solid BA/ Project Management / PMO skills
• User Training/ Communications/ Customer Service experience
• In-depth, hands-on experience with one Project Mgmt Method/ Framework (Agile, Scrum,
• Waterfall, PMP, Prince, Scaled Agile, SAFE)
• Advanced Excel Skills (pivots, v-lookups, macros) to facilitate data analysis
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills; Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Word Preferred:
• Jira Managing E2E workflow of tickets through Kanban Boards, Sprint Boards and Backlog Board
• Working knowledge of Agile processes and terminology
• Experience with at least one project management tool (MS Project, Clarity, Rally, HP PPM, Primavera, Planview etc.)
• Proficiency using SharePoint to manage documents
• Database/ SQL UX/ Wire framing Development experience in any language is nice to have

About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the eighth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” and is now the 14th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 26 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients’ technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com.