Project Manager

Company Description

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

o Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing and implementing projects. Assist in developing long-range plans and strategies to achieve business growth.

o Provide advanced business knowledge and technical support for systems development. Work closely with project members and requesters identifying deliverables and functions throughout a project lifecycle. Ensure the project or effort is adequately staffed, trained and managed.

o Manage effort within approved manpower and budget guidelines. Provide technical and advisory support for staff to ensure the development and implementation of applications/infrastructure where needed. May participate in the definition and development of project requirements and analyze requirements to provide a recommended solution.

o Ensure a successful delivery, which may include: development and management of overall project plan, schedule & budget adherence, status reporting, escalations, testing, user approval, final corrections, and methodology compliance.

o Manage relationship with project team throughout technology, product and regional organizations, which may include the project requesters. Provide senior management level status reports.

o Coordinate multiple project efforts. Log, track, and resolve project, business or release related issues.

o Demonstrate leadership qualities, display mentoring ability, project leadership and delegation, follow-through, and team participation skills.

o Responsible and Accountable for the overall management of the projects.

o Organize and facilitate project initiation, planning, regulate stand-up meetings, reviews, release planning, and other related meetings.

o Provide project status and steering committee updates and testing/defect resolution status

o Create, implement, and monitor the processes for requirements gathering and prioritization

o Work with the IT and product teams across all projects to establish and manage project plan from inception to delivery, including release deployments into production.

o Manage the project execution against the plan, ensuring that they are delivered on time and to specifications.

o Ensure cross team coordination and release planning activities are maintained;

o Provide reports to executives to ensure an understanding of execution status and project performance;

o Remove roadblocks reported by the team, which could require cross-team collaboration and or escalation, possibly up to executive management

o Create and maintains risk and issue logs, including working with appropriate parties to create mitigation and corrective action plans with communication to the team, product owner, and executive management

o Build team cohesion and foster good communication between various project teams

o Assist in the creation of processes and procedures with input from product development teams

o Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver to the goal

Qualifications

All About You

o Bachelor's degree required or equivalent combination of training and experience.

o Advanced degree and PMP preferred.

o Extensive knowledge of Project Management principles and methodologies

o Knowledge of credit and debit card operations.

o Prior experience in managing multiple cross-functional team projects.

o Strong experience in working with all teams across the organization both business and technical;

o Strong experience in managing multiple priorities in real time;

Skills/ Abilities:

o Listening, oral, written and presentation skills and effective interpersonal skills.

o Organizational and planning and multi-tasking skills.

o Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship-building and negotiation skills required with a solid track record for developing internal and external relationships.

o Strong negotiation, leadership, and written and verbal communication (Technical and non-technical) skills

o High maturity of diplomacy and ability to see and rationalize multiple points of view

o Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills, critical thinker with excellent judgment and initiative;

o Demonstrate individual and team trust.

Additional Information

Ajeesh Yohannan

973-967-3578

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajeeshyohannan/

ajeesh.y(@artechinfo.com)