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ID #20229892
State Louisiana
City New orleans
Job type Contract
Salary USD $73.06 hr 73.06 hr
Source NTT DATA Services
Showed 2021-09-25
Date 2021-09-24
Deadline 2021-11-22
Category Et cetera
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Senior Project Manager

Louisiana, New orleans, 70112 New orleans USA

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NTT DATA Services currently seeks a Senior Project Manager in New Orleans, LA. This is a temporary assignment until April 30, 2022, with a likely extension or a transition to full time permanent employment, depending on business needs. Primary Duties & Areas of Responsibility:Leadership:

  • Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multi discipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
  • Make decisions at the project team level and properly escalate those decisions that cannot be resolved on a timely basis.
  • Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project.
  • Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources.
Project Planning:
  • Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews, and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
  • Integrates all elements of the plan so that interrelationships are known, accounted for and taken advantage of.
  • Work with respective groups to secure and manage resource availability across the project team, including business resources
Scope Management:
  • Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
  • Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
  • Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope. Monitors and tracks project dependencies.
Schedule Development and Management:
  • Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
Budget Development and Cost Management:
  • Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actual vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals.
Issue and Risk Management:
  • Identify record and evaluate business and technology risks, internal controls which mitigate risks, and related opportunities for project control improvement.
  • Ensures stakeholders are key contributors to the issues and risk management process.
Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Interfaces with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to the project, such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule.
  • Build strong relationships with project stakeholders by demonstrating understanding of both business and IT components make the project successful.
Communications Management:
  • Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.
  • Able to negotiate different viewpoints between stakeholders and suppliers, working toward solutions that are in the best interest of client.
Quality Management:
  • Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.
Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of Project Management experience
  • Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of employment legislation and compliance requirements, HR policies and best practices
  • Demonstrated experience building and driving people and culture programs from the ground up
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks
  • Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment
  • Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool
  • Work independently and follows through on assignments with minimal direction while keeping the team informed
  • Possess a mastery of basic/generic data skills (tools & concepts)
  • Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate
Preferred:
  • Active PMP certification
  • Primavera P6 certification desirable
Minimum Educational Background and Physical Requirements Required to Perform Job:
  • Bachelor's and above degree in Computer Science, Information & Technology, MIS, Business or at least 8 years of experience in Project Management.

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