Associate Project Manager
About The Position
The Associate Project Manager coordinates, manages, and completes projects, overseeing project activities, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress. The role prepares project status reports for management and requires leadership, communication, analytical, and organizational skills. Success depends on working effectively with project team members while delivering quality projects within allotted schedules and budgets. The position manages projects through their full life cycle, facilitates project meetings, develops detailed plans and resource allocations, maintains project dashboards and work plans, and identifies and mitigates risks and issues. It also provides regular progress reporting to management and the Executive Leadership Team. The role requires compliance with the company’s Corporate Compliance Program, Standards of Business Conduct, applicable contracts, laws, regulations, policies, and procedures, and a responsibility to prevent, detect, and report unlawful or unethical conduct.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, and/or relevant work experience and background equivalent to the degree.
- At least one year of project management experience.
- Experience with system implementations.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work across the organization and interact, influence, and negotiate effectively at all levels of management.
- Demonstrated ability to own and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.
- Confident team-building ability.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability, including effective negotiation skills.
- Strong knowledge of MS Office, including Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Outlook, and SharePoint.
- Ability to establish detailed project plans with accurate resource and time estimates.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Outstanding time-management and organizational skills.
- Ability to work cooperatively with large groups of team members from cross-functional business areas.
- Experience demonstrating leadership, influence, and collaboration in a matrix-managed environment.
- Experience creating ad hoc presentations or project reports.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet targeted deadlines while handling regularly occurring projects and shifting tasks.
Nice To Haves
- PMP (Project Management Professional) credential.
- Three or more years of experience in an IT department.
- Experience managing technical projects.
- Experience demonstrating leadership, influence, and collaboration in a matrix-managed environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage projects from inception through release or completion of the full project life cycle.
- Facilitate, lead, and record team project meetings.
- Manage multiple complex projects, ensuring delivery on time and within budget and escalating issues to management.
- Implement detailed project plans and resource allocations using the company’s Project Management Methodology and project management software.
- Keep the project management reporting dashboard updated with appropriate information.
- Prepare and compile periodic progress reports for the Executive Leadership Team.
- Provide weekly status reports for each assigned project.
- Keep detailed work plans updated to reflect status and resource changes.
- Follow up on all actions.
- Identify risks and problems that could inhibit successful project completion and develop mitigation processes (RAID).
- Develop and implement detailed project plans covering tasks, resource requirements, interdependencies, and schedules.
- Apply analytical skills to make critical decisions and recommend solutions to project-related problems.
- Comply with the Corporate Compliance Program, Standards of Business Conduct, applicable contracts, laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
- Exercise due diligence to prevent, detect, and report unlawful or unethical conduct by coworkers, professional affiliates, or agents.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
