Associate It Project Manager

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and evaluating IT projects across our organization. In order to do this successfully, this person should feel comfortable handling multiple tasks at a time.

Responsibilities

• Leads project cadence calls, may include executive steering committees.
• Responsible for working with internal and/or external stakeholders to set resources expectations and project success criteria. Accountable for stakeholder sign off on key project deliverables.
• Provides project governance (scope control, risk and issue management, change control, escalation management).
• Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure understanding of project status and progress.
• Primary responsibility for day to day management of project delivery, project communication, risk migration and reporting.
• Leads cross functional project teams to ensure all deliverables and milestones are met on highly complex projects, owns the project schedule and forecast. Complexity can vary based on several factors such as size, scope, number of geographies, variables or dynamics of customer and/or project.
• May provide client relationship management throughout the project delivery, and facilitate the transfer of the project and client relationships to other internal teams.

Qualifications

• Strategically builds working relationships and networks across all the internal and/or external functions and helps remove barriers to team productivity and success to ensure smooth delivery in a challenging environment
• Strong experience in using project management methodology (processes, best practices, tools, and templates) effectively including MS project
• Project Management certification is an advantage but not a must
• Excellent in MS project
• A solid discipline of risk and issue management
• 2+ years of related experience to reflect skills and talent necessary for this role preferred.
• Ability to communicate and present effectively to all levels of external and/or internal leadership, including strong executive presence. Proven ability to manage in demanding environments, including strong executive-level persuasion skill.
• Ability to plan effectively in a rapidly changing environment to quickly identify the critical path and appropriately manage challenging situations real time. Experience in managing through project resets due to change in scope or unforeseen challenges.