Enterprise Project Manager - Consultant
Enterprise Project Manager - Consultant
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Job Description
Project Scope:
To provide hands-on leadership and structure to a large complex project transitioning from a large state agencys legacy financial system to the states erp system (sceis). This project is currently being rebaselined and the contractor will play a critical role in guiding it through implementing disciplined program management and collaborative stakeholder engagement. the program manager will support the state agencys technology interests ensuring successful execution greater accountability and strong alignment with project goals. the contractor will work closely within the pmo team and partner with an external agency that owns the business process and vendor relationship
Roles/Responsibilities:
Key duties and Responsibilities
- Step into an active challenged project and quickly gain situational awareness to identify critical issues risks and paths to resolution.
- Implement and reinforce rigorous program management practices across planning execution monitoring and reporting.
- Act as a key program interface for the agencys technical ocm and functional teams facilitating technical and enterprise system requirements are met.
- Collaborate closely with an external agency that leads the overall program and manages the contracted system integrator.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups including vendors agency business teams erp specialists and executive sponsors.
- Provide structure and clarity in areas such as risk management issue resolution scope control and milestone accountability.
Mandatory Skills:
- Bachelors degree or 6-8 years of program management experience
- Experience in projects involving procurement systems or erp platforms (e.g. oracle sap workday).
- Familiarity with financial system migrations from legacy systems other modernization efforts.
- Education: PMP certification
- 5 years as a program manager for large-scale enterprise it implementations - ideally including cloud-based procurement or erp-related systems.
- Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to bring order and progress to challenged or late-running projects.
- Experience working with system integrators and managing complex stakeholder environments.
- Outstanding communication facilitation and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced public sector environments in managing shifting priorities and coordinating with multiple partners.
- Background in technology program oversight with cross-functional and multi-agency collaboration.
Desirable Skills: .
- Prior experience as a program manager for large scale state government projects highly desired
Employment Type
Full-time
