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NMDP · 4 hours ago

Project Manager (Technical) - Remote

Minneapolis, MN

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Develops an initial project plan.

Determines staffing requirements and requests staff in order to form project teams.

Develops best practices, project standards, procedures and quality objectives including metrics for assessing progress.

Further develops project plan; Project Charter, Scope Statement, WBS, Project Procurement and Sourcing Strategy, Project Schedule, Project Governance, Phase Exit Criteria, Cost Estimate and Budget, Risk Management Approach, Issue Management Approach, Scope Management Approach, Change Management Approach, Quality Management Approach, and Stakeholder and Team Communication Approach

Conducts project kickoff meetings, communicating individual roles and project expectations.

Forms project teams, ensures staffing requirements are met; assigns work tasks to project team members.

Develop detailed project plans and schedules.

Gains approval of project plan by project stakeholder(s).

Provides work direction and leadership to assigned projects, including scheduling, assignment of work, review of project efforts.

Leads execution and oversee all aspects of project.

Leads project team in day-to-day execution and compliance with project management and SDLC processes.

Monitors and audits project milestones and critical dates to identify potential jeopardy of project schedule.

Identifies ways to resolve schedule issues.

Keeps management aware of the situation.

Manages the project deliverable and milestone change control process.

Provides required project status reporting.

Assesses variances from the project plan, gathers metrics, and develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives.

Provides regular communication of project status to project stakeholders and within the team.

Facilitates changing management in cooperation with systems management.

Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

Provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance.

Uses past experiences to identify potential areas of improvement.

Mediates and solves conflicts and provides active de-escalation management.

Acknowledges team successes by providing positive feedback and recognition.

Provides performance feedback to resource managers.

Develops and maintains productive working relationships with project sponsors, project stakeholders, vendors, and key clients.

Conducts formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.

Tracks client satisfaction levels.

Ensures project postmortem is completed and reported.

Coaches and mentors less experienced team members.

Other duties as assigned by Leadership.

Qualification

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PMP CertificationProject ManagementMS OfficeProject PlanningSoftware Development Methods

Required

Advanced knowledge of project management principles; project planning/execution/controlling; and software development methods and tools.

Strong demonstrated leadership and problem-solving skills.

Intermediate skills with MS Office; Project, Visio, Excel and Word.

Work in a complex, high speed, self-correcting environment in search of desirable results under conditions of high uncertainty and high change.

Advanced written and oral communication, and presentation skills.

Ability to use diplomacy in working relationships to address conflict and arbitrate solutions successfully.

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, math, or computer science. Upon evaluation, equivalent related experience and/or education may be substituted for degree requirement.

Three years’ experience leading IT software development projects with demonstrated success in interdepartmental meetings and implementation of large-scale, cross-functional projects, analyzing improvements for business and quality processes, and business writing.

Upon evaluation, five years of equivalent related NMDP project management or project team leadership experience may be substituted for the IT software development project experience requirement.