Job Description:
Title / Position: Project Manager
Target Pay Rate: 40-45
Location: Maryland Heights MO
- Hybrid allowance: 4x/week onsite, 1/week remote
Contract Duration: 12+ months
Top Requirements:
- 1-3 years of PM experience
- Project coordination experience is ok
- Concerned about those with >3 years of experience being too senior and a flight risk
- Assertive personality
- Solid negotiating skills as there will be time pressure and other challenges to work through
- Customer service focus in their personality and communications
- Understands the fundamentals of technology
- Knows that there is a difference between Windows and Linux
- Knows that there is a difference between cloud and on-prem
Day to Day Responsibilities/project specifics: This infrastructure team is seeking a project manager to join a team of about 10 PMs and program managers. The team is responsible for managing a variety of projects across an entire IT organization. This role will be mainly responsible for reviewing and progressing tickets to ensure teams stay on schedule in regards to onboarding a new LOB and all its systems onboarded into the new operating model. There will be tight deadlines, and likely some resistance from stakeholders. Excellent communication and a customer service mindset are imperative. While there will be more senior PMs on the team to guide and lead, it is important that this PM be generally aware of the scope/health of the downstream teams to be able to progress toward goals/timelines accordingly. This role will not include project initialization or completion, but rather understanding where their tickets sit, understanding workflows and giving/taking direction. This person will be working with four infrastructure sided technical teams.
Main duties will include creation of status reports, checking completion of milestones, monitoring scope, and other duties as assigned by senior project/program managers. This person should have some IT exposure as projects will all be based in application, database and software technologies. The team is seeking someone who is organized, assertive and is able to help ensure the timely delivery of projects.
