Maximo Project Manager (Remote)

Primary Duties & Areas of Responsibility:

• Leadership
• Provide strong, proactive and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects
• Makes decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis
• Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project
• Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources
• Project Planning
• Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures
• Integrates all elements of the plan so that interrelationships are known, accounted for and taken advantage of
• Work with respective groups to secure and manage resource availability across the project team, including business resources
• Scope Management
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables
• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards
• Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope. Monitors and tracks project dependencies
• Schedule Development and Management
• Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables
• Budget Development and Cost Management
• Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals
• Issue and Risk Management
• Identify record and evaluate business and technology risks, internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for project control improvement.
• Ensures stakeholders are key contributors to the issues and risk management process
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Interfaces with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to the project, such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule
• Build strong relationships with project stakeholders by demonstrating understanding of both business and IT components make the project successful
• Communications Management
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards and project updates
• Able to negotiate different viewpoints between stakeholders and suppliers, working toward solutions that are in the best interest of client
• Quality Management
• Actively monitor, track and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 8+ years of Project Management experience
• Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office
• Bachelor s Degree in Business, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and compliance requirements, HR policies and best practices
• Demonstrated experience building and driving people and culture programs from the ground up
• Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships and external networks
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment
• Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool
• Work independently and follows through on assignments with minimal direction while keeping the team informed
• Possess a mastery of basic/generic data skills (tools & concepts)
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate

PREFERRED:

• Active PMP certification
• Primavera P6 certification desirable