Title – Project Manager

Duration: Long Term Contract

Location: Kalamazoo MI ( onsite & local)

Job Description:

• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget

• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis

• Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule

• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

• Review and approve time cards associated with your project

• Create business case financial models

• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools

• Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders

• Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost

• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards

• Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports

• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums

• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case

• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value

• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria

• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company

• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects

Expected Core Competencies: very strong in relationship building, risk management, and detailed project planning. This role will interface with the business team significantly so they need to have experience being a conduit between technical teams & business teams who will be pretty unfamiliar with IT Specific Needs: onsite in Kalamazoo.

Preferred Languages: English #1

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience is required

• Proven record of planning and delivering complex projects

• Experience managing remote project teams desired

• Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Project preferred

• Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)

• Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships

Soft Skills:

• Good Communication Skills

• Leadership

• Influence & relationship building