Senior Project Manager - Motion Recruitment

Senior Project Manager

12 Month Contract (Possible Extension or Contract-to-Hire

Location: Hybrid (Client located in Dallas, TX)

• Must be able to work on a W-2

• Must be local to Dallas, TX

Job Description

• Ability to follow the Client’s Governance and utilize required formatting of PowerPoint presentations.
• A background showing 5-7 years managing cross-functional business initiatives and/or projects.
• Experience building up a PMO environment.
• Managing a multi-disciplinary team across functional work streams.
• Proven experience managing implementation projects with task/work responsibility shared across multiple system integrators.
• Proven experience of learning business requirements (e.g., business priorities, opportunities, risks, policy/regulatory requirements, etc.) and tailoring approach to ensure project success.
• Self-motivated, works with appropriate urgency, friendly and assertive.
• Extremely detailed oriented and organized.
• Exceptional time management skills.
• Excellent concise writing and communication skills.
• Cool, calm, collected and collaborative. Works well under pressure, comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments. Can shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.
• Develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Project.
• Ability to identify and document issues, risks and problems.
• Ultimately responsible for partnering with business partner to uphold the project scope and objectives.
• Responsible for using Project Management best practice to guide a project with the stakeholders and/or business.
• Deliver projects on budget with desired outcomes. Will utilize skills to forecast financials of project to effectively communicate any variance to sponsor and required management.
• Able to articulate problems, bring the right people together to solve problems of the project and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires.
• Conduct weekly status reviews with project team and works with project team to obtain updates for weekly status reporting and PowerPoint presentations to include updates on timeline, health of project indicators, accomplishments, and planned items coming up.
• Maintain project governance with regular status meetings and reports, stand-ups and/or review sessions to keep team organized and moving forward to successful project closure.
• Screen projects for risks, actions, issues, decisions, financial viability, and opportunities for sustainable improvement. Understands the end-to-end impact along with cross functional impact.
• Formulate and implements solutions.
• Project may involve working with multiple vendors and making sure vendor PM aligns to the Client’s deliverables, SOW, invoicing, and timeline.
• Work with Analysts and IT PMs to performs validation and liaises with project leadership about budget, forecast, accruals and reclassifications that may need to occur on project.
• With input from project leadership updates project forecast, submits accruals and reclassifications to maintain project financial standards.
• Monitor project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility with delivery lead.
• Develop a detailed project plan/schedule to track progress.
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs.
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Create, maintain, and store project documentation and records.
• Responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices with project team.
• Excellent communicator that understands frequent, consistent communication helps keep teams aligned and progressing forward with project. Respectful and upholds team dignity throughout project.
• Encourage and support escalations: communicate to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential escalation issues. Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project. Cultivates the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders. This includes executing the proper communication and coordination of cross functional project teams to ensure seamless delivery.
• Engage in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommend solutions.
• Lead project teams in strategic meetings and follow up with meeting minutes.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Desired Skills & Experience

• Oil & Gas/ Energy experience
• Experience in Business facing engagements
• Master’s Degree
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

You Will Receive The Following Benefits:

Medical & Dental Insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401(k)

Paid Sick Time Leave

Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment provides IT Staffing Solutions (Contract, Contract-to-Hire, and Direct Hire) in major North American markets. Our unique expertise in today’s highest-demand tech skill sets, paired with our deep networks and knowledge of our local technology markets, results in an exemplary track record with candidates and clients.

You Will Receive The Following Benefits:

• Medical & Dental Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401(k)
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment provides IT Staffing Solutions (Contract, Contract-to-Hire, and Direct Hire) in major North American markets. Our unique expertise in today’s highest-demand tech skill sets, paired with our deep networks and knowledge of our local technology markets, results in an exemplary track record with candidates and clients.