Project Manager

Contract to hire position at a world leading private equity firm headquartered in Boston.

Client is looking for candidates that have more of a process focus as opposed to a development focus. They want true project managers and not development managers that are looking to do project work.


Title: Project Manager
Reports to: Senior Vice President
Department: Information Technology
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Temp to Full time


DESCRIPTION:

The person will be the lead project manager across multiple applications development and vendor integration initiatives from inception to implementation. This position will monitor and document progress, report on milestone deliverables, risks and costs across ongoing technology initiatives.


RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements across a portfolio of Shared Resource technology initiatives.
• Responsible for reporting status of projects during Bi Weekly portfolio meeting across all of IT.
• Liaison to the Project Management Office to ensure PLC process across all technology initiatives are aligned properly.
• Responsible for updating shared Project Management Application to ensure all projects are kept up to date to allow for proper transparency to Executive Management.
• Monitor and document project task list and progress for all assigned projects
• Organize and lead project status meetings and works closely with the development team lead and business analyst to document project status and inter-project risks
• Develop reports/dashboard for project on milestones, deliverables, risks and budget
• Maintains burn rate by project, provides budgeted vs. actual cost analysis
• Maintains overall project task list that includes tasks/issues/risks across all technology initiatives
• Facilitates inter-project communication and supports the Business Systems Manager for Steering Committee reporting
• Responsible for the oversight of the teams change management entries to ensure proper allocation and avoidance of team overlap.
• Maintain overall Release Management Calendar to ensure transparency of production impacting releases.
• Responsible for Resource Allocation across three teams in a “pooled” resource methodology. Proper tracking of resources and their allocation is required to fully understand open resources available for project or tasks.
• Responsible for project coordination toolset and project reporting standards


TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:
• Experience with a large, functionally diverse, and informed user base that demands high quality applications.
• Experience with reporting status, milestones, deliverables across multiple technology initiatives
• Experience with project management reporting tools
• Exposure to various business disciplines (such as Private Equity, Compliance, Legal, Investor Relations, Human Resources and Finance)
• Familiarity with multiple architectures: n-tier, .NET, client-server, etc. and multi-system application integration
• Fundamental understanding of software development lifecycle

QUALIFICATIONS:

• PMP certification required
• 2-3 years experience in the project management and reporting
• 5-6 years experience in software development and technology implementation
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Please contact Albert Barsoumian with qualified resumes via email at albert@collabstaff.com or via phone at 508-872-7402.