Senior Project Manager - Deerfield Beach, United States - Gravity IT Resources

Description

Job Title: Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master

Location: Deerfield Beach, FL (3 days onsite)

Job-Type: Contract

Employment Eligibility: Gravity cannot transfer nor sponsor a work visa for this position. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer directly.

Our client is a $18B, Fortune 200 company in the automotive retailing, distribution, and services industry. They are currently ranked in the Top 20 companies to work for in the US by Fortune Magazine, Top 20 best companies for diversity and have an amazing work culture and impressive long-term growth prospects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage projects that involve multiple vendors and complex integrations
• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables
• Develop and track full scale project plans including external integration points and dependencies
• Establish and coordinate project teams
• Direct and oversee project team
• Define project tasks and manage project resource allocation
• Manage project budgets
• Identify project risks and issues and develop and execute mitigation plans
• Manage project changes to achieve project goals
• Monitor and report project status to all stakeholders
• Provide guidance and direction to external vendors as applicable
• Participate in quality audits
• Develop Requests for Information/ Proposals (RFI/RFP) for external services as applicable
• Demonstrate leadership, and strong organizational, presentation and communication skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree or higher required
• Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Certifications required
• Minimum 8 years of project management experience
• Experience with vendor management and vendor package implementations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project
• Experience with Microsoft Project Server, ServiceNow and Jira a plus
• Strong technical background a plus