Junior Project Manager

Term: 12mo+ Contract

Location:

Plano, TX

Work Environment:
Hybrid - Monday thru Thursday - in office / Friday - at home

Visa Status: US Citizen or Green Card

TGreat opportunity in Plano, TX, Junior Project Manager with prior work experience supporting Project Managers developing centralized processes and / or a Shared Services organization.

Ideally, you will have 3-5 years as a Junior Project Manager supporting IT program / project managers and business process owners for business transformation programs. In this role you will be tracking multiple work streams and providing weekly status and ad hoc reports. You will be managing and updating the Smartsheet project schedule, RAID logs, dashboard, budget forecast, weekly / monthly executive presentations.

You will be scheduling meetings for the management team, cross functional project team and vendors, developing agendas, record minutes and track action items. You will monitor and track deliverables and SLA's as directed by senior management in addition to other duties as they are identified. This position requires experience communicating with various audiences that include business users, project management teams and project sponsors.

You will be responsible for Project document repository management in SharePoint, including structured storing and organization, access management and sharing with required stakeholders for review and approval

• Assisting in creating and maintaining project plans, RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions / Dependencies) logs, and other project artifacts
• Managing meeting governance - Scheduling meetings , note taking, action item management
• Reporting – Proficient in excel and power point to create status reports
• Budget – support in maintaining the budgets
• Other administrative and project coordination tasks.

• Experience developing centralized processes or a Shared Services organization
• 5+ years of experience with tasks, RAID, artifacts and budget management
• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Smartsheet, Excel, Power Point
• Project coordination experience with cross functional teams, including third party vendors and SI partners
• 2+ years’ experience process flow documentation
• Documentation skills including functional, and training are required as well as solid verbal communications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Accounting processes and terminology highly desirable