TalentOla
Location
Virginia | United States
Job description
Title: Program Manager
Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (5 Days Onsite No Remote)
Duration: FTC | FTE $75/hr | $120k
Description
Looking for a Program Manager for Architecture and Engineering team, you will lead and coordinate a variety of projects, collaborating with many cross-functional teams. As a successful Project Manager, you will ensure predictable, consistent, and successful project delivery. You will plan, coordinate, and monitor medium/large sized scope and budget projects. You will partner with key business stakeholders to ensure a successful start-up and completion of a project.
You must be comfortable operating in an environment where scope, deliverables, responsibilities, and expectations may change at a moment's notice. You must bring extensive experience in relevant project management methodologies and have exceptional communication skills. This individual must be a self-starter, exemplifying strong initiative and management skills, with the ability to operate in and adapt to a fast-paced environment to achieve desired results.
Responsibilities:
Manage moderately complex projects and/or components/phases of larger projects.
Consult, troubleshoot, problem resolution, project management, people management, strategic planning, training, and documentation.
Ensure project methodologies, project delivery processes, and implementation processes are followed, including leading and driving project timeline, risk and issue management, and scope change management.
Develop, coordinate, and execute project plans, task schedules, and resource activities to ensure on-time and effective project delivery.
Lead and coordinate cross-functional, cross-departmental, cross-company teams that are responsible for all aspects of a project, from initiation to closure.
Manage the project budget, including understanding and validating estimates, cost variance tracking and managing project resources effectively.
Monitor key metrics throughout the project lifecycle (Scope, Budget, Risk, Resources, and Schedule) and provide detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
Provide accurate and timely communication to key stakeholders and leadership on project progress, challenges, and recommendations.
Provide leadership, guidance, and mentoring to project management team and others on best practices, standards, tools, and methodologies for managing projects successfully.
What you will need to have:
8 years of progressive project management experience, including management of major projects, in a large operating environment.
Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in project management processes and methodologies, as well as project lifecycles.
Excellent skills in MS Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Confluence, & Jira
Experience in working with Agile Teams,
Experience in banking/financial industry
Experience in managing technology projects focused on infrastructure upgrades and technology transformation.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
Bachelor's Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
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