Technical Project Manager

Job Type

Full-time

This position is on-site/hybrid and will report into our New Century, Kansas location*

• Work closely with business teams, acting as partner to help them gain desired outcomes from projects.
• Drive project teams to be as effective and efficient as possible, push for achievable but still aggressive timelines.
• Create and update project plans and documentation and hold team members accountable for timeline and functionality commitments.
• Regularly send professional and detailed project updates to project stakeholders.
• Schedule and lead project update meetings with stakeholders and project team members.
• Coordinate various meetings with cross functional team members to define scope of projects.
• Tightly control project scope and ensure scope changes follow agreed upon approval processes.
• Implement best-practices to optimize delivery performance.
• Ensure project teams exemplify a culture of teamwork, partnership, and shared accountability
• Keep project meetings and discussions on-topic and on-track to ensure they are efficient and effective.
• Manage testing activities for systems and applications, including planning, coordination, execution tracking, and issue resolution.
• Author, implement, and manage training plans and activities to support successful adoption of new or enhanced systems.
• Personally participate in testing new systems, in order to understand system functionality as well as better support business testers of the new system.
• Present project status, risks, issues, and milestones to executive steering committees on a regular basis.

• 5+ years of full-time experience managing technical projects ideally for a multi-site enterprise
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Project Management preferred; equivalent combination of related experience and demonstrated project/program delivery capabilities will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) / PRINCE II certification is a plus
• Experience managing system testing plans for new systems or upgrades.
• Ability to work a hybrid on-site schedule, typically 3 days per week in the New Century, KS office.
• Ability to occasionally travel (