Project Manager - IT - Gables Search Group
Detroit, MI
About the Job
Key Responsibilities:
This position provides oversight for the delivery of professional and managed services projects with responsibility for the quality, timeliness, resource mix, and project management rigor, including the following:
· Leads internal and client project status meeting and manages all aspects of project management for IT projects
· Skilled in multiple project management methodologies including Agile and Waterfall
· Works effectively with virtual and remote teams, promoting teamwork & collaboration, and project managing various size initiatives
· Ensures effective leadership of day-to-day service activities and risks and understand how and when to escalate.
· Follows company project management methodology, while at the same time subjectively assessing the best project management tools to use on a project-by-project basis
· Ensures on-time, on-budget project delivery for the customer business
· Continually improves reliability of delivery by understanding and improving all aspects of delivery support (tools, technology, reporting, etc)
· Initiates interaction with the customers and resolves service issues while fostering key relationships
· Maintains daily / weekly interaction with customer stakeholders to manage service delivery processes and gain a strong understanding of the customer critical systems inter-dependency.
· Manages escalations as necessary
· Produces ad hoc and recurring reports:
o Relating to time and utilization
o Performance of delivery, IT Support and monitoring teams
· Actively contributes towards self-development by creating and following development plans based on development discussions with immediate manager
· Complies with all people-related processes as mandated by company
Role Description
Reporting to the Director of Customer Success, this position is responsible for:
· Project managing client professional and managed service projects. Including the following key tasks:
o Setting up the project in MS Teams and Project Management software
o Establishing the project plan
o Ensuring entire team understands roles, scope
o Ensure internal team understands what is expected for key processes (time logging, internal chats, document storage)
o Leading client, and internal meetings (creating agenda/sharing meeting minutes)
o Managing all risks and issues and escalating as appropriate to ensure project remains healthy
o Managing financial aspects of project, include budget to actual and profit margins
o Monitoring scope
o Managing escalations (client and internal)
o Monitoring SLAs for task completion.
o Administering the Project Management tool, including setting up and monitoring key configurations on an ongoing basis
o Updating key metrics for dashboard reporting
· Assist in defining and improving the project management process and templates used.
· Meeting with clients to understand their satisfaction level and to resolve issues.
Qualifications
This position requires a strong foundation in project management. Candidate must have excellent communication skills, including the ability to be assertive when necessary but maintaining a strong customer focus at the same time. Candidate must have a process mindset, always striving to improve or create repeatable effective delivery processes.
Typical Experience/Skills:
· Strong project management foundation and experience with multiple PM methodologies, including waterfall, Agile,etc. Waterfall is requirement as virtually all projects are done Waterfall with some aspects of Agile (daily standup)
· Demonstrated work history in customer-facing technology coordination role
· Strong interpersonal skills and managing internal and external stakeholders
· Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams
· Detail oriented and process focused mind set
· Strong business acumen with ability to establish and manage standard operating procedures for service delivery
· 5+ years of experience in an IT project management related capacity
· Mid to expert level user of Excel and other Microsoft tools
· Able to assertively manage project team members (company and client) to ensure dates are met, scope is controlled and risks are actively mitigated.