Job Title: Sr IT Project Manager
Location: Deerfield Beach, FL- 3X a week
Pay: $65-73HR (40 hours a week, OT optional)
We are presently in the market for one Project Manager contractor position with excellent communication, vendor selection, vendor management, application development and software package implementations experience. Please note this is not a remote position and requires the candidate to be on-site at our Deerfield Beach, Florida campus a minimum of 3 days a week.
Required Skills/Experience:
• Executive presence and effective communication
o Must be able to clearly articulate project updates to stakeholders and members of the senior
leadership team
o Must possess a strong presence with confidence and polish
o Excellent planning and coordination skills
• Waterfall and Agile Methodology
o Must have strong experience running waterfall, agile and hybrid projects, aligning processes,
deliverables and project metrics/dashboards/reports as needed
o Experience with various dependent projects potentially being executed with different
methodologies
▪ Vendor Management
o Experience with Vendor contracts management
o Experience with and Vendor package implementations
o Strong experience in managing internal, external and hybrid teams
▪ Technical
o Prior experience managing technology roadmap projects
o General knowledge and understanding of the technology field and technology projects
o Understanding of core infrastructure
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage projects that involve multiple vendors and complex integrations
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables
• Develop and track full scale project plans including external integration points and dependencies
• Establish and coordinate project teams
• Direct and oversee the project team
• Define project tasks and manage project resource allocation
• Manage project budgets
• Identify project risks and issues and develop and execute mitigation plans
• Manage project changes to achieve project goals
• Monitor and report project status to all stakeholders
• Provide guidance and direction to external vendors as applicable
• Participate in quality audits
• Develop Requests for Information/ Proposals (RFI/RFP) for external services as applicable
• Demonstrate leadership, and strong organizational, presentation and communication skills
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) required
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience
• Experience with vendor management and vendor package implementations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project
• Experience with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow, and Azure DevOps a plus
• Strong technical background a plus
• Certification or a degree in computer science, information systems or engineering a plus