Senior Project Manager

Company: Kforce Technology
Location: Irving
Posted on: September 20, 2023

Job Description:

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Senior Project Manager in Irving, TX. The Senior IT Project Manager will be leading a key SaaS implementation project for the IT organization.

Duties Include:

• Senior Project Manager develops and maintains up-to-date project artifacts (project charter, schedule, RAID logs, etc.) following Project Management Institute's principles and guidelines
  
• Tracks and manages project schedule for upstream and downstream dependencies
  
• Ensures proper IT Compliance due diligence is completed related to Information Security, IT General Controls, SOX controls, Change Management, etc.
  
• Responsible for managing the relationship between IT and the business for the project
  
• Coordinates with business, other IT business units as well as vendors within the assigned project to ensure proper project execution and adherence to the company's IT compliance requirements
  
• Maintains strong customer focus while coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders, vendors, and IT resources by using effective verbal and written communication skills
  
• Provides leadership to the IT project team, fosters a positive team environment, and provides direction in ambiguous situations
  
• Utilizes negotiation skills to influence and creatively achieve successful outcomes around scope, schedule, budget, issues/risks, and resources for both internal and external stakeholders
  
• As a Senior Project Manager, you will proactively exercise initiative in identifying, tracking, and removing impediments to project success; Approaches risk identification and mitigation, accordingly, including establishing contingency plans and initiating corrective action
  
• Understands how individual project workstreams affect the program and exercises judgment in raising issues and risks to the executives
  
• Arbitrates and resolves conflicts within the program when necessary; Understands appropriate paths and methods for escalation
  
• Reports project status to executives
  

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