Job Details
Job Title: - Project Manager
Job Location: - Polk County, IA (Hybrid)
Employment type: - 12+ Months Contract
Skills:
- Ability to work within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting)
- Ability to interact with, educate, learn from, and drive business and IT teams.
- Ability to work effectively under very broad direction with general supervision.
- Ability to motivate team and meet deadlines in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
- Ability to gather and organize multiple simultaneous complex business process scenarios.
- Ability to break down complex tasks into actionable work items, sequenced appropriately.
- Ability to manage scope creep with a focus on delivering a minimum viable product.
- Excellent organizational, presentation, interpersonal and team building skills.
- Excellent time management and project planning/strategizing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience with managing client expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple parallel work efforts.
- Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to project team. Escalate issues to management and/or appropriate leadership as appropriate.
- Provide insight and knowledge into improving processes related to portfolio, project and program management.
- Other duties or tasks as assigned by management.
Requirements:
- Direct management of system integration projects
- Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.
- Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates and reporting).
- Extensive experience with planning, managing, and tracking multiple major impact projects.
- Strong process development skills, w/ the ability to learn and understand concepts in order to interpret, document and formalize procedures.
- Strong process and gap analysis skills
- Excellent project management skills, w/ the ability to multitask and manage multiple tasks with changing priorities in a cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrate ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and project activities simultaneously while meeting established deadlines.
- Demonstrated experience with working with business users to gather and document business requirements.