IT – Project Manager – Mastery

Overview

this is 12+ months in Springfield, MA hybrid 3 days onsite W2 only must have banking, financial services or insurance experience

• PMP certification or similar
• Strong Project Management tool background MS Office Project, Excel, Word, Outlook required

• 3-5 years of experience in financial services/insurance industry
• 4+ years IT experience managing large sized IT program or portfolio
• 4+ including experience with integrations
• 2+ years vendor management and contract negotiations (SOW/Invoice)
• 2+ years required
• Strong financial acumen experience managing program/portfolio budget

• Manage, direct and plan major complex project(s) consisting of one or more project teams. Responsible for the day-to-day execution, management, and reporting of the project(s), including managing resources, costs, scope and meeting deadlines according to plan.
• Coordinate, plan, develop and implement business projects and recommend appropriate strategies, actions, and/or alternatives for business decisions relative to the projects under area of responsibility.
• Responsible for managing, developing and maintaining integrated detailed project estimates, work plans, resource plans and control project scope, while ensuring deliverables are met on time, within budget and on target.
• Communicate any proposed change of planned activities, schedules, costs, benefits or impacts to sponsor and manage any change according to approved recommendation.
• Manage vendor relationships and contractual obligations with all project vendors.
• Identify, document, assign and track project issues through resolution.
• Confirm achievement of objectives, verify and document project results to formalize acceptance of the product of the project by the sponsor.
• Work independently and partner with management on highly visible, complex projects with multi-platform deliveries. This includes developing, communicating/escalating, monitoring, and reporting on all project/program tasks and deliverables; actively managing the resource plan; and tightly managing the project budget, approved funding, forecasts and actuals.