IT Project Manager EMEA contractor full-time - remote Poland

Work mode: 100% remote

For our trusted client we are looking for a freelance an IT Project Manager to join the team. This person will Initiate Plan Control Execute and Close project deliverables following companyprescribed process to ensure business objectives are met within the Post Sales Salesforce space. You would join the Information Technology team and help positively impact the business through leading technologies exciting and challenging enterprise projects and new platforms.

• Draft the project charter; ensure requirements are aligned with the scope and approved by the sponsor.
  
• Work with resource managers to staff projects. Define and communicate roles for project team.
  
• Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work break down structure critical path resources and effort. Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan.
  
• Establish project budget; capital hardware software and labor; expense labor and nonlabor.
  
• Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders. Effectively communicate directly with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
  
• Develop risk management plans; identify risks and develop respective mitigation and contingency plans. Define the risk reserve and incorporate it into the project plan.
  

Execution and Control

• Manage employee contractor and supplier deliverables to ensure the project is completed on time per the schedule approved.
  
• Manage quality of the deliverables. Ensure all requirements have been validated (i.e. traceability matrix) and ensure the user acceptance tests have been developed approved and executed to successful completion prior to going live.
  
• Manage the project budget; track effort and green dollar spend; correlate actuals and forecast to the plan (burn rate).
  
• Lead communications with key stakeholders. Monitor and report on schedule and budget variances. Ensure all communications related to implementation are completed.
  
• Document and drive issues through resolution; escalate to customer supplier and company management as necessary.
  
• Continually manage risk to reduce the impact or likelihood of occurrence.
  
• Develop and manage the implementation plan including production verification. Manage issues at golive and through warranty period.
  

Closure

• Ensure signoff on all major system deliverables by stakeholders.
  
• Ensure all invoices are received and processed.
  
• Ensure smooth transition to support and that the CMDB is updated.
  
• Lead and document lessons learned with all pertinent stakeholders review missed estimates with resource managers.
  
• If a capital project ensure CAR is closed.
  

Requirements

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution.
  
• Minimum of 5 years of IT Project Management experience required
  
• Minimum of 2 years of technical or enterprise level project experience required
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP or PRINCE2 certification
  
• 5 years of experience with Project Tracking software such as Jira Azure DevOps or Microsoft Project
  
• Experience with Salesforce or other SaaS applications
  
• Experience with DevSecOps principles
  
• Experience with modern software development principles including code management test automation APIs microservices and cloud services
  

Position Criteria:

• Intermediate understanding of cloud software applications (SaaS) integrations databasedriven applications network and application security.
  
• Intermediate understanding of integration and dependencies of involved systems globally for a division or function.
  
• Basic technical knowledge and basic understanding of computer hardware and software data management application programming data communications operating systems utilities and data security.
  
• Intermediate understanding of project budget management and experience managing internal and external labor budget for projects. Ability to understand and manage capital spend on project.
  
• Ability to communicate and present project status to immediate management and stakeholders.
  
• Basic understanding of Scrum/Agile and ability to serve as a Project Manager leveraging Agile concepts or Scrum Master on a Scrum project.
  

Benefits