Advantage Tech is looking for a Project Manager to join their client's team remotely.
Position Purpose: The Project Manager is a highly motivated, self-starting individual with the ability to drive technology projects through their life cycle, ensuring technical solutions are sound and aligned to business goals. This person is instrumental in managing the intricate balance between technology, business goals, and project success. They are comfortable with client and/or executive-facing responsibilities and can translate technical needs for every day understanding.
- Responsibilities:Develop and define project goals, scope, and deliverables that support business objectives.
- Create comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients, executives and other staff members.
- Lead and coordinate project resources to ensure project milestones are met and quality standards are upheld.
- Monitor project progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
- Communicate proactively the status, issues, and risks involved in the project.
- Identify and minimize project risks throughout its life cycle.
- Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
- Drive project kick-off activities: internal meetings, statement of work creation, project plan and technical documentation for top-tier, high profile customers.
- Act as an escalation path for implementation projects to reset and clarify expectations.
- Provide oversight and management of work backlogs, the prioritization process and work scheduling and monitoring.
- Ensures implementations are managed through the Post-Sales process.
- Ensures adherence to all client data and security requirements.
General Qualifications
- Education and Experience:Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Management, IT, or related field or combination of relevant education and experience.
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is preferred.
- Minimum of 3+ years of project management experience.
- Prior Scrum management experience.
- Agile and Waterfall environment experience.
- Technical mindset and general understanding of technical product development.
- Proven track record of managing all aspects of a project lifecycle.
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management, or change management.
- Mental Requirements:Strong working knowledge of MS Office and project management tools.
- Exceptional leadership, time management, and organizational skills.
- Working knowledge of change management and project evaluation processes.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and negotiation skills.
- Incumbent may experience highly stressful situations in the process of resolving problems of an immediate nature.