Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Senior Project Manager / IT Project Manager

Location: Kansas City MO 64105

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Rate: $87 Hourly

Description:

Duties:

Project Initiation

Work with technical and business leaders to define project investment opportunities including scope schedule budget and benefits

Identify and negotiate project resource requirements with delivery organizations (internal & external) set delivery expectations and evaluate delivery performance

Project Delivery

Direct accountability for planning and executing one or more Agile or Waterfall projects as solution scope requires to project performance criteria (on time within scope on budget and meeting quality standards) as defined in the project statement(s)

Develop project estimate basis using Agile software development estimation techniques

Advanced project management practical expertise across knowledge areas: scope time cost quality human resource communication risk and procurement and integration management

Work with Product and resource owners to identify internal and external stakeholders and then lead stakeholders management activities throughout the project life cycle

Own the development and review of project requirements with Product Owners Solution Architects and Technical Leads to ensure project will deliver to the planned benefits

Facilitate interactions between Technical Leads Project Delivery Staff and QE Leads to ensure that project delivery and testing completion are aligned

Facilitate crossdepartmental project delivery activities and gain commitment for delivery while managing competing demands to ensure that project delivery dates are not compromised

Plan project implementations facilitate implementation dry runs and lead Go live activities to ensure production implementations do not adversely impact the production environment

Escalate material issues and risks to leadership in a timely fashion

Ensure that Organizational Change Management activities are completed to drive product adoption

Ensure that Transition to Support is planned for completed and approved so that the support organization can support all new or modified systems

Project Controls

Follow IS PMO processes regarding deliverables stage gates and controls in accordance with SOX and management controls compliance

Create and maintain project financials across project cost budget managed in SAP PPM and Excel; provide accurate and timely project financial submissions

Develop monitor and control all aspects of project delivery in accordance with CPKC IS PMO and project management best practices

Develop and support the development of presentations to senior management regarding project scope schedule budget and current status updates.

Team Leadership

Provide project leadership: set clear goals engage team members resolve conflict and recognize team member contributions appropriately

Conduct regular lessons learned sessions to ensure continuous improvement of project teams.

Excellent communication organizational multitasking problem solving and negotiating skills

Appreciating and understanding how to deal with different cultural values and sensitivities

Ability to rapidly adapt set priorities and respond to changes in fastpaced environment;

Selfstarter the successful candidate demonstrates strong accountability and pride of ownership to deliver quality solutions

Skills:

Significant experience leading large multistakeholder information systems projects;

Demonstrated expertise of project management planning tools (MS Project preferred) and associated MS Office products (such as; Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint)

Experience / successful track record working in a teamoriented environment (demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships)

Managed Software and Technology Development and/or Application Integration projects using primary Iterative Agile or Waterfall Project methodologies

Decision and problem solving at the root cause and complexity level

Experience in understanding business / technical strategies and communicating these needs to the governing bodies to ensure programs / projects and services are delivered as agreed.

Lead statement of work (SOW) development participate in contract negotiations and manage Vendors and materials delivery

Education:

Postsecondary education (University College) in Commerce/Business Engineering Technology or Computer Science;

Skills:

Required

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