Project Manager with Retirement Insurance - Piscataway, United States - Rapidtech Inc

Description

Job Description - Project Manager

Who We Are Looking For

This role requires a senior IT Project Manager who can drive strategy and executes high-priority projects. Actively engage with the project team, client PMs, and Client in defining the Project plan, key deliverables & milestones. The role requires a seasoned leader of cross-functional teams in various global locations.

Responsibilities of the Project Manager consist of, but are not limited to:

Stakeholders Management
Develops and nurtures productive and collaborative relationships across all project stakeholders
Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies.
Assist business units to effectively consult and engage stakeholders on relevant projects.
Gather/facilitate status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule
Ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the sponsor/stakeholders

Project Time/Schedule/Quality Management

Manage all phases of the project life cycle (Kick off, Discovery, Ensuring the gathering and documentation of requirements, Scope Confirmation, Design and build process flows, creating a Project Schedule, Resource allocation, build, testing and deployment) to ensure the project is completed on time, within budget requirements and quality standards.

Ensure that the team has conducted the diligence to deliver a quality product without any compromises

Project Integration and Scope Management

Manage the day-to-day operational aspects for the Synechron Project team by facilitating agile scrum/activities, events, and meetings, including Kanban board and retrospectives.

Assist the product owner with program, project, and product updates as well as backlog refining.
Partner with team members to ensure clarity of needs and plan for changes, updates, and new products.
Coach agile principles to various levels across the business, including stakeholders.
Remove impediments or guide the team(s) to remove impediments by finding the right resources to address them.

Project Risk & Issue Management
Take a proactive approach to manage and communicate risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide identification, coordination, mitigation, or escalation as necessary
Manage project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep the team running at high performance
Conduct postmortem and root cause analysis to help teams continuously improve their practices to ensure maximum productivity

Project Human Resource & Communication Management (Relationships/Resourcing)
Ensure cross-functional coordination; build relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to get alignment on common business/end-user/release goals
Assist with Program Manager and resource management for the internal technology team and enterprise-wide for enterprise project resources.
Own and manage communication plans across projects, which may span multiple teams.

Project Cost Management
Manage IT project financials - project budget and forecast for IT resources, hardware, software, and labor.
Closely monitor the Forecast vs the Actuals cost of the project and share weekly reports with all the stakeholders.


Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of 10 years of project management experience; Preferred with knowledge of the Retirement Insurance Domain
Minimum 5 years' experience in Agile delivery methodology
Demonstrated total ownership behavior and attitude
Advanced written and oral communication skills
Proven track record in business and vendor management function
Proven ability to establish internal processes to successfully manage the execution of projects
Highly developed interpersonal skills and proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels within an organization
Ability to promote a culture of collaboration and teamwork across functional and organizational boundaries to optimize results
Adapt to utilizing MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and business intelligence tools
Knowledge of the Retirement Insurance domain is a plus


Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, business management, project management, or a related field.
Master's degree preferred but not required

Preferred Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

PMP
Scrum Master Certification
SAFe

Other Preferred Training, Technical Skills Or Knowledge
Jira and Atlassian Suite
MS Project
ServiceNow
Experience with Agile concepts (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)

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