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TITLE: Senior Project Manager
Location: Chicago, IL ICS is looking for an individual with a strong project management skillset to lead projects that provide a positive member experience that supports the growth of recruitment, retention and engagement. This role is responsible for developing and managing all aspects of new product development, including planning, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues. What You'll Do:- Create and establish efficient project workflows and developing strategies to improve inefficiencies.
- Plan and organize project schedules, workflow, tasks, and deliverables for all department projects.
- Ensure projects are on time, on budget, and within scope. Notify stakeholders of scope changes and time/budget impact.
- Create and maintain project documentation and project close processes.
- Communicate agreed upon project status metrics frequently with all stakeholders
- Support the LMS administrator with the user upload and order fulfillment processes
- Participate in quality assurance activities for products to confirm technical and content requirements have been met
- Develop business cases, detailed project plans, business requirements, solution design and testing functions and translate into proper system requirement specifications
- Report on project success criteria results, milestones, deliverables, metrics, test and deployment management activities
- Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to meet the organizational strategic objectives 2
- Identify project management process improvement opportunities, incorporating lessons learned into future projects • Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
- All other duties as assigned
- Ability to effectively manage all aspects of multiple projects simultaneously
- Proficiency in MS Suite, databases, spreadsheets, as well as research using the web
- Ability to effectively establish work priorities as well as work collaboratively and independently
- Ability to build relationships and oversee vendors
- Strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication and skills to work effectively with people of diverse talent and background
- Problem analysis and problem resolution at both strategic and functional levels.
- Strong team player, with an ability to exhibit flexibility and a willingness to pitch where and when necessary
- Excellent organization and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Knowledge of PMI, Agile (SCRUM), Waterfall, and/or Six Sigma (Lean) methodologies
- Ability to mentor junior level employee (s) in a similar role
- Strong attention to detail.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related discipline
- 2 - 4 years of professional experience in project management and leading project teams Qualifications Desired
- CAPM (Certified Associate of Project Management) or related certification preferred
- Experience with content development and/or eLearning teams preferred
- Experience with project management of eLearning or online products
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