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ID #43356799
State Texas
City Houston
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source North Highland Company
Showed 2022-06-20
Date 2022-06-19
Deadline 2022-08-18
Category Et cetera
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Project Manager Consultant - Infrastructure (Hybrid)

Texas, Houston, 77008 Houston USA

Vacancy expired!

LEAVE YOUR MARK ON A BETTER WORLD.

COLLABORATE WITH AMAZING PEOPLE.

MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN. At North Highland, we believe in doing great things together. With you. With our clients. With a perspective on actions today that shape tomorrow. As the world's most innovative, collaborative consulting group, we've built a space to share ideas like never before. Do you have the skills, passion and commitment to transform industries for the better? Think you can bring your A-game every day? If so, join us. We like big thinkers with action on the brain

Why North Highland? Every choice you make will give you the opportunity to grow. It's our employee ownership model - with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities in the mix. For us, training doesn't have an off switch. You'll learn new things, both during and beyond traditional working hours. We want people who strive for the next level, then the next.

At North Highland, you're never a number. Our firm is large enough to scale up, test your mettle and tackle big challenges, but small enough that clients won't lose your face in a crowd. You're recognized individually.

We started as three leaders and a kitchen table. Which means we know expectations are made to be broken. Want to surprise us? Do it. Experiment and stretch yourself. There's room to grow as a budding entrepreneur. Our client is an industry leader who acquires large and small companies and is in need of Project Managers who have deep IT experience to assist with Mergers and Acquisitions. The ideal resource will have experience leading projects for MS Azure and MS SharePoint.

Exciting work you will do:
  • Manages project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
  • Introduce and maintain appropriate project controls to ensure project delivers to expectations.
  • Leverage standard PM practices in use, establish run and maintain appropriate workstreams to facilitate the timely completion of required deliverables in support of each M&A transaction
  • Maintain core PM deliverables to including roadmap, schedule, work breakdown structure, cost/risk/issue management, communication, problem resolution,
  • Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
  • Understands the business benefits of a project by grasping business performance indicators and mapping them to goals of IT projects
  • Manages, and appropriately escalates, barriers, risks and issues. Including reaching out to the larger company network for impediment removal
  • Coordinates the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan
  • Acts as an agile Project Manager with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work, servant leadership
  • Acts a liaison between developers and operations teams and fosters better communication between the functions, ensuring cross-team coordination
  • Minimizes impact of change on project delivery.
  • Coordinate technical work delivery and ensure that all technical deliverables are well defined, completed efficiently - at both client and integrating companies
  • Weekly /daily touchpoints involving all relevant technical disciplines and workstream leads from client and acquired companies. Clear management of tasks and issue resolution.
  • Participation with Program Manager in escalation of key decision points to PMO leadership, resolution and action

What you will need:

  • Past experience working as a IT Project Manager in a Mergers and Acquisitions setting.
  • Advanced oral and written communication skills.
  • Advanced decision-making skills and exercises good judgment regarding when and how to escalate issues. '
  • Oversees and executes organizational change activities. • Excellent communication skills required to interface with multiple levels of the organization.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with ability to clearly articulate issues and concerns and recommend solutions to management.
  • Takes accountability and demonstrates effective judgment and learning agility.
  • Encourages collaboration and easily gains trust and support of peers.
  • Strong interpersonal skills; able to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team (customers, developers, testers, business analysts, managers, executives, etc.) at all levels.
  • Strong self-organization and self-management skills.
  • Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential.
  • Must be self-aware and willing to adapt to changing work environment.
  • Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines.
  • Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
  • Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial.

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