Ellucian · 15 hours ago
Senior Project Manager (Higher Education/SaaS/ERP) (Locations in Central/West)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
Maximize your interview chancesEducationEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Hiring Manager
Patrick Burns
Insider Connection @Ellucian
Get 3x more responses when you reach out via email instead of LinkedIn.
Responsibilities
Lead multiple projects through all phases of the Ellucian Implementation Methodology from initiation/planning through the execution and delivery of the contract concluding with project transition and close, ensuring a successful project.
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, client stakeholders, and peers.
Apply Project Management disciplines such as quality, risk, resource, and change management while being accountable for meeting the time, cost, and scope of each project.
Communicate the plan, roles, constraints, milestones, and critical path to all team members and project stakeholders.
Understand and apply standard project management and delivery methodology and project tracking standards to build effective plans and deliver quality solutions.
Anticipate and mitigate risks and identify opportunities
Lead project team status meetings to ensure the project milestones are met and dependencies are tracked
Manage activities of customer and resources to deliver a fully integrated solution.
Act as a shared point of contact between internal and external stakeholders.
Proactively and timely coordinate and communicate project activities to all involved parties.
Provide management with an articulate summary of project status.
Facilitate discussions with appropriate leadership and key sponsors to negotiate key decisions related to the triple constraints (time, cost, scope) while maintaining excellent customer satisfaction.
Build and maintain positive professional relationships and functions as the change agent for customers.
Manage all resources when project turnaround situations occur. Lead cross-functional team resolutions to mitigate project risks and issues.
Provide timely and constructive performance feedback regarding resources assigned to projects.
Improve team dynamics and performance by building team cohesiveness through leadership, mentoring, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
Qualification
Find out how your skills align with this job's requirements. If anything seems off, you can easily click on the tags to select or unselect skills to reflect your actual expertise.
Required
Significant skills/knowledge/experience in project implementation for CRM OR ERP SaaS projects
Experience in a number of operational elements that affect financial and resource forecasts are on track; including but not limited to: Up-to-date accuracy of all project plans for the duration of the project, Customer satisfaction, Accurate revenue recognition, which requires timely review and approval of time sheets, expense reports, billing request documents, and credit requests.
Accomplish project goals within a matrix-management environment.
Assist Customer Relations team in developing solutions by providing knowledge and expertise during the sales cycle (this may include the ability to sell the value of project management services).
Identify business growth opportunities by applying knowledge of higher education’s industry, business processes, and software products.
Guide and mentor less experienced Project Managers
Develop methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Certifications in cloud and project management disciplines that suggest expert level KSA’s for these areas.
Preferred
Higher education experience preferred
Benefits
Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
Flexible time off
Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
Parental Leave
5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
Telemedicine
Wellness
Headspace Care (mental health)
Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
RethinkCare & Wellthy- caregiver support
Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
We Foster a learning culture with:
Education Assistance Program
Professional development opportunities
Company
Ellucian
Ellucian delivers the software, services, and insights that help your institution thrive.
Founded in 1968
1,001-5,000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Ellucian has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (21)
2022 (28)
2021 (42)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.6B2021-06-14Acquired· undefined
2020-09-17Debt Financing· $1.6B
Leadership Team
Laura Ipsen
CEO & President
Kari Branjord
SVP & Digital Transformation
Recent News
2024-05-28
2024-05-23
Company data provided by crunchbase
