Senior Project Director-Public Sector; State & Local ERP

Senior Project Director-Public Sector (State & Local) ERP-US

Full-time

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The Public Sector Project Director is responsible for all phases of planning and execution of public sector enterprise software and services procurement, as well as implementation oversight. This position supports public sector clients in designing and developing an ERP procurement strategy including, but not limited to, defining project mission, goals and objectives, gathering system requirements, authoring Requests For Proposals (RFPs) or Requests For Information (RFIs), along with developing other associated procurement documents.

This individual is responsible for facilitating the vendor evaluation and selection process, while remaining vendor, software and product neutral. Additionally, the Project Director is responsible for supporting contract negotiations to the awarded software provider, integrator, or both, and overseeing the duration of the implementation engagement to include areas of scope such as QA oversight, project management of the overall engagement, overseeing management of designated supplemental resources, and reviewing work products and deliverables produced throughout the SDLC methodology.

This role requires executive briefing skills, strong technical writing and organizational skills, group facilitation and conflict management skills, as well as strong working knowledge of the public sector procurement process, along with understanding and sensitivity to public sector business demands, culture and legislative impacts.

• The primary responsibility of the Project Director is to objectively lead the client through a well-designed, documented solicitation and evaluation process that is not protested, resulting in a clear statement of work and contract with a qualified solution provider. This may also include serving in an extended capacity throughout the overall project implementation, if contracted by the client. These accountabilities may include leading, supporting and/or overseeing the planning and the development of all project deliverables and assuming overall responsibility for staffing, budget, work plans, scope, project milestones, issues management and risk management utilizing CLIENTS’s project management methods, tools and templates.

• Ten plus years of recent experience leading the solicitation and vendor evaluation of large, complex public sector IT projects, preferably ERP-related

• Significant delivery management experience, including managing teams at all project phases, exemplary track record in successful client relationship management and multi-project oversight on multi-year engagements. This should include strategy development, operational and transformational consulting engagements

• Possesses knowledge and experience in public sector procurement strategies

• Ability to independently manage client relationships, including executive sponsors and senior project management to ensure client satisfaction throughout the engagement

• Demonstrated experience in successfully leading all phases of a public sector vendor evaluation and selection, as well as implementation

• Adept at learning the client business, creating internal partnerships, fostering collaboration and recommending strategies that fit the client culture and business model

• Experience developing and creating public sector procurement documents (e.g., RFPs) and related acquisition documents for software and services

• Ability to design and draft evaluation materials including an Evaluation Guide, demonstration scripts, interview scripts, scoring criteria, scoring analyses and others

• Ability to provide high level expertise across a broad range of business and IT-related subject matter areas

• Experience with public sector procurement policies and procedures

• Experience performing cost benefit analysis regarding new IT purchases

• Experience…