PMP Certified Senior IT Project Manager (W2 and local only)

Company: Sharp Decisions
Location: Phoenix
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

A client of Sharp Decisions Inc. is looking for a PMP CertifiedSenior IT Project Manager to be based in Phoenix, AZ. This position is HYBRID (onsite on Tuesdays). The contract's duration is 6 months with possible extension. *W2 and Local only.

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Our client's EPMO is looking for someone who is passionate, highly skilled, committed to successful project execution and superior customer service to join their team. Individual will contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery. Individual will verify that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case

Job Duties:
- Manage multiple complex and high visibility enterprise projects
- Serves as project champion embracing and articulating project goals, objectives and outcomes for projects such as cloud technologies, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, digitization, enterprise wide applications and managed partnerships
- Manage the project team to drive results and successes; Demonstrate strong problem solving abilities
- Manages the entire project life cycle from discovery through lessons learned
- Facilitates team/stakeholder interactions, meetings and communications
- Works with project resources, including procurement and vendor, to assure project health
- Ensure the team is working together and step in when needed
- Understands, monitors and reports on project tasks, milestones and deliverables.
- Document and report on project management activities
- Guides project teams to define requirements or stories/sprints/backlogs
- Experience drafting and submitting budget proposals and recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary
- Balances priorities among multiple projects/subprojects
- Plan, budget, monitor and report on the project with project management tools. Present to stakeholders reports on progress as well as problems and solutions.
- Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
- Define the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested goods and services

SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Proactive Orientation
- Strong ability to identify and resolve risks/issues/changes, Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands

- Takes Ownership
- Commitment to actions that lead to success for self/team/organization
- Drives to Results
- Track record of project results (with increasing levels of difficulty)
- Customer Focus
- Strong customer service orientation
- Excellent Communicator - Strong verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Personable
- Strong team/stakeholder interactions and working relationships; Effective with IT professionals -
Delivery
- Strong planning, organization and presentation skills
- Knowledge Areas
- PM methodologies (i.e., Waterfall, Lean, Kanban, Agile, hybrid)

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

3+ years in a project management or similar role utilizing PM processes/protocols
1+ years of previous experience with gathering requirements from the client / business and documentation

EDUCATION REQUIRED:

Bachelor's degree required

PMP Certification required

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