Project Manager II - Business

Job Description

We have a position for a Project Manager II - Business with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 10 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

The Project Manager plans, organizes, secures, and manages resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Role will include project and change management, process and workflow creation as well as building operational efficiencies.  Incumbent will prepare and review reports/presentations with organizational leaders.  Common deliverables typically include the project charter, scope definition, requirements documents, work activities, project schedule, risk register, communication plan, resource plan, risk management plan, procurement plans, project budget, quality control plan, status updates, reporting, and tracking. Typically, does not independently deliver content or decisions which define final project deliverables.

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions: 

• Change Management & Presentations – Own the change management of new standardization efforts to include communicating, training, etc. This will involve presenting to leadership, peers and front line.
• Leads small to large and/or moderately complex projects under moderate to minimal supervision
• Reporting, communications, relationships, and sphere of influence typically occur within team and key stakeholders
• Manages actions at this level which may cause or prevent delays and cause inefficiencies of a team and may cause unnecessary expense affecting operational results.
• Projects typically span across organizations (departments) but may also directly affect a business, the unit and/or the entire company.
• Provides guidance and direction to other project team members.
• Develops detailed project schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports; tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans and/or resources. 
• Establishes and implements project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high-quality standards, and meet customer expectations
• Develops and executes management plans for time, cost, scope, quality, communications, risk, human resources, procurement and integration.
• Translates project requirements into project objectives and tasks.
• Reports on project progress throughout the project lifecycle
• Coordinates the resources necessary to successfully complete the project.
• Communicates major milestones and identifies potential risks; conducts regular status meetings to review progress; manages prioritization procedures; mitigates risks that could impact long-term adoption of changes
• Sets and manages client expectations, managing and escalating issues and changes.
• Measures progress toward goals and revises project objectives; documents applying change control procedures.
• Evaluates the impacts and risks of changes from multiple perspectives, assigns tasks that are necessary to reduce or eliminate those considerations, determines tentative implementation dates, and tracks results of the implementation.
• Develops methods to measure customer satisfaction; obtains feedback at critical milestones and at project completion to ensure that project efforts meeting customer expectations for time, cost, and results.
• Anticipates and identifies tasks required to support change processing including performing change impact analysis, assigning tasks to project team members, verbally communicating complex issues, verifying that tasks are completed, and communicating implementation status.
• Takes responsibility for changes to applications software and systems environments to ensure that changes to the environment have been properly analyzed and adequately coordinated and do not adversely impact the company’s ability to meet published customer service level agreements.
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders and project resources to drive key decisions and ensure timely project completion.
• Documents and understands what the technical environment dependencies are for each project to support an end to end integrated environment.
• Manages, the creation and tracking of processes, procedures, and documentation that improve environment stability, availability, and production parity
• Accountable for tracking and managing the creation of functional designs; identifies risks and benefits of alternate designs; calculates costs/benefits of potential actions or solutions to establish their viability/ROI; assesses project impact of system changes on users and internal and external customers and stakeholders.