Description and Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Assist Transition Manager in performing project management activities.
- Coordinating project priorities across multiple tracks on a project and driving the project
- Coordinate, schedule and facilitate client and internal meetings and weekly status reporting and other team meetings
- Following established standards and procedures for project reporting and documentation
- Drive a focus on consistent communication and project standards internally within the project team and externally with customer
- Act as a point of contact for all project administrative tasks for the assigned project
- Utilize MS tools including teams, project and spreadsheets to track budgets, schedules, and other information.
- Setup and manage processes for contract management, financial management, scope management and other elements of the project management processes
- Oversee progress to make sure goals are met on time.
- Create and manage project deliverables, milestones and required tasks per the schedule
- Coordination of and response to requests for changes from the original specifications
- Building and maintaining positive working relationship with vendors and external/internal customers
.Required Skills/Knowledge:
- Strong Project Management skills expert in organizing, planning and managing large-scale projects
- Ability to analyze project needs and determine resources needed to meet objectives
- Excellent communication, organizational, leadership, time management skills
- Exceptional verbal and written communication and project management skills, including an ability to communicate effectively at an executive level
- Ability to prioritize and manage work and trade-offs against critical timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Builds a strong internal and external network of personal relationships to identify issues and opportunities.
- Demonstrated experience in analyzing a business issue and developing a future state recommendation
- Highly developed skills in using MS applications including:
- Project
- Visio
- Understand and Create Process Flows (Swim lanes, flowcharts)
- Understand and Create Technical Diagrams
- Excel/Sharepoint/Teams
- Import from different sources of data
- Data Analysis using charts, pivot tables, filters and rules
- Knowledge of basic to advanced Excel functions
- Ability to set agendas and facilitate meetings, while focusing in on critical path discussion topics and necessary decisions
- Strong negotiation ability and attention to detail
- Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
- Multi-tasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
- Ability to work independently with little supervision
- Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines
- Ability to travel up to 50% (no travel during COVID)
- 4-6 years of information technology and business experience
- A Bachelor's degree in IT, Business Administration, Engineering or related discipline with an information technology focus
- External project management certification such as PMP from PMI or other project management certification is preferred
- ITIL Foundation Certified is a Plus
