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Voyage Advisory · 3 weeks ago

Management Consultant, Project Manager - Chicago

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Voyage Advisory is a consultancy seeking highly motivated Project Managers with a passion for business and problem-solving. The role requires managing complex projects, facilitating meetings, and improving project management practices while collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring project goals align with business objectives.

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Responsibilities

Make recommendations to improve project management practices, implementing project management process improvements, and training project managers on project management best practices

Provide strategic planning, process development, analysis and interpretation to complex Business problems

Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support the Project Sponsor’s business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. The Project Manager also has overarching responsibility to identify and mitigate issues and risks, while also communicating same to stakeholder and senior leadership

Work constructively with sponsors, business analysts, stakeholders, and customers to define the scope of the project and determine staffing requirements. Monitor and communicate project status, including reporting results to managers and users

Promote teamwork and a collaborative work environment. Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion; ensure that the team’s progress is clear within the team, as well as communicated clearly to stakeholders

Communicate effectively with customers to provide project status and secure customer feedback. Manage expectations; ensure that reports, estimates and status are accurate and appropriately detailed, and that projects receive the appropriate level of priority

Take on complex and large projects in terms scope, dependencies, risks and impact to the organization. Their experience and skill are needed to complete projects of this nature and they work these projects autonomously

Oversee, develop and maintain automated project plans and leverage project management tools to monitor tasks and resource assignments. Stay aware of current project management trends and improvements within the industry

Develop and establish objective measures and provide constructive input to the performance measures used within the project management lifecycle. Develop standards and procedures; train other project managers to adapt to these standards and procedures

Follow company rules, procedures and maintaining a positive employee relations climate. Foster a culture of achievement within a results-oriented work environment. Assist in the recruitment and selection of prospective team members, as well as assimilation of new people into the organization. Manage issues and problems in a constructive and professional manner

Qualification

Business Process ImprovementStrategic PlanningData AnalysisProject ManagementDigital Customer ExperiencePower BIChange ManagementAgile MethodologiesProject Management CertificateClient Service FocusCommunication SkillsInterpersonal SkillsRelationship BuildingFlexibility