Our Client a well known Investment bank is seeking a Project Manager in their Seattle Washington Location!
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive effective teamwork, prioritization, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities while maintaining strong relationships.
- Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex cross-functional projects and manage implementation activities for concurrent work-streams.
- Anticipate bottlenecks, drive issue resolution, identify risk, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.
- Ability to create and communicate project metrics, schedule, and status to the entire organization.
- Demonstrated ability to compose and deliver persuasive documents and presentations to senior management, stakeholders, project teams, and end users.
- Maximize resources for the greater good of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret technical information.
- Demonstrated ability to compose clear and concise written communication.
- Demonstrated ability to create appropriate business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure consistency with and application of PMO standards, processes, and controls across projects.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- BA/BS in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related area of study from an accredited college or university with applicable project management experience.
- 7+ years of experience managing projects.
- Excellent listening, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- IT delivery background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all program/project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, and implement.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to multitask and handle interruptions.
- Experience with Agile/Kanban Software Development is a plus.
- PMP or Project Management certification is a plus.
- Financial Services background is a plus.
