Looking for Project Manager // Pleasanton, CA

Position: Project Manager

Location: Pleasanton, CA 

Duration: 6+ Months Contract to hire 

PMI/PMP and/or rigorous IT infrastructure related delivery experience and experience actively managing project budgets of $1 million or more annualized– forecasting/accruals, earned value analysis, etc. Service Center experience a plus, HR Service Center preferred, but most important is all around project management expertise.  

Job Description:

·         Works on problems/projects of diverse scope and high complexity where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.

·         Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

·         Develop project management methodologies to develop and execute project plans including – work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, project scope

·         Demonstrated track record of delivering large, high-quality products on time in a fast-paced start-up environment, with many stakeholders

·         Responsible for deliverables, monitoring, communicating statuses & issues and financial management of projects

·         Obtains/ manages / reallocates resources to meet necessary goals

·         Plans, monitors, and tracks delivery of quality control and takes corrective action as appropriate

·         Communicates project information to all project team members, sponsors, and partners, as appropriate.

·         Reviews, assesses and communicates quality assurance plan to team members, sponsors, and partners.

·         Interact with senior internal and external personnel.

·         Responsible for monitoring and communicating project status to all functional management, sponsors, and vendors involved, as appropriate.

·         Develop and maintain business dashboards that summarize project elements rollouts including roadmaps, key objectives and critical integration points

·         Develops project communication policy, procedures, escalation and risk management processes.

·         Responsible for project budgets and forecast.

·         Performs variance analysis (including schedule, costs vs. budgets, resources and changes to scope). Makes trade-offs with sponsor, as necessary.

·         Performs project risk assessment quantification,

·         response planning and control.

·         Communicates risks to team leadership and/or management, project sponsors & vendors. Develops and executes mitigation strategies.

·         Validates client and functional requirements for sponsor.

·         Determines the impact on current/existing technologies and communicates impact to clients, sponsor, cross functional management and partners.

·         Evaluates alternative operational efficiencies /business process change.

·         May assist in conducting team building/development activities.

·         Coaches, mentors, and trains as appropriate.

·         Makes presentations to cross functional management, sponsors, and/or partners.

Requirements/ Qualifications:

·         Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

·         8-10 years’ experience in managing projects that are highly complex

·         Project Management Professional (PMP) credential

·          Leadership skills, ability to set direction and drive team to objectives, leading by example, and teamwork.

·          Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to interface with people at all levels of the organization; technical and business sponsors to foster a collaborative environment.

·          Ability to work independently, with strong organizational and flexibility skills in a team-oriented environment.

·          Adept at using MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite

·         Excellent business communication, writing and interpersonal skills

·         Demonstrated ongoing professional development in the field of project management

·         Skilled in business process analysis/design, preferably with experience in the HR and/or Service Center function

·         Customer focus

·         Capable of making reliable decisions

·         Ability to work in ambiguous environment and create/suggest solutions to drive work forward

·         Orientation toward results and high quality

·         Excellent planning & organization skills

·         Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities

·         Capable of coaching/mentoring and conflict management/negotiation

·         Demonstrates ability to do financial management of the projects.

·         Relevant knowledgebase in core industry a plus

·         Experience managing project teams over multiple geographical locations ( both domestic and international)

·         Experience working in a highly dynamic work situation with constantly changing requirements

·         Ability to utilize various project management tools

·         Previous experience implementing a cloud-based solution

·         Experience with delivery projects in datacenter transformation environment.