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Description:

The Project Manager is responsible for delivery one or multiple projects. The associate will have direct responsibility for planning, stakeholder communication, resource allocation, and status updates. The Project Manager is responsible for building out a robust and detailed project plan, leading the team(s) through the work, removing obstacles, managing risks and issues, driving decisions and escalating anything that will impact the schedule, scope, cost, or desired outcome of the project. The associate proactively seeks to improve processes, procedures, tools, and methodology. Project outcomes, team engagement, and customer satisfaction will be a key metric for measuring success.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads delivery of complex initiatives for teams that may also include business stakeholders, supporting IT teams, vendors, and consultants through all phases of the software development life cycle

• Responsible for facilitating meetings and effectively guiding resources to achieve goals

• Responsible for adhering to the current project methodology while influencing best practices, process improvements, and procedures

• Serve as a primary problem solver for any issues, roadblocks, and risks; maintaining responsibility for their resolution. Servant leader for the team.

• Effectively create and deliver presentations and reports to management team, communicating product and/or initiative status

• Drive the decision making process amongst stakeholders, ensuring product/initiative needs and solution options are presented and understood

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to communicate with and influence a variety of audiences including product managers, IT developers, business analysts, business partners, stakeholders, and management

• Must have strong cross-functional teamwork skills

• Ability to observe business situations, recognize roadblocks, and deliver solutions

• Ability to influence and indirectly manage team members to meet initiative and/or product deliverables

• Proven ability to adapt to changing priorities while consistently meeting deadlines with accuracy

• Ability to lead, partner with and challenge peer groups

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills; able to identify areas of improvement and make sound recommendations to solve problems

• Excellent organizational and time management skills

• Effective at handling multiple concurrent large projects

• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision, and proceed on own good judgment

• Understands and champions, coaches and mentors on Agile practices where appropriate

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 5+ years experience in delivery management

• Digital/IT Experience

• Specialties: Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban

Skills:

Project management, Agile, requirements gathering, project plan, Stakeholder management, Scrum, Program management, Waterfall, HRIS

Top Skills Details:

Project management, Agile, requirements gathering, project plan

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

HRIS experience would be nice but not needed.

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.