Lead Project Manager - St. Louis, MO

Occupations

Job Description

Leadership

•          Lead a team consisting of 6 to 20 people.

•          Lead Management Consulting engagements.

•          Mentor less experienced project managers or those aspiring to move into the PM role.

•          Handle difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, HR advice, and respect for the individual.

Project Management

•          Clear understanding of all project roles.

•          Manage large projects.

•          Set and manage client expectations specific to the project.

•          Facilitate team and client meetings effectively.

•          Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized business solutions and presentations.

•          Responsible for project and quality of delivery from original concept through final implementation.

•          Oversee cross-functional projects and exhibits understanding of critical cross module integration points.

•          Effectively communicate project expectations, goals and scope to the teams.

•          Communicate project direction, approach, priorities, events and status to all project resources and business sponsors.

•          Insure project deliverables are on time and on budget while meeting customer satisfaction expectations.

•          Clearly understands project roles and definition of each team member in order to effectively manage the activities of the team.

•          Maintain experience in tracking and managing projects using MS Project or similar PM software.

•          Implement software development life cycle procedures for team members, if not already in place.

•          Mitigate project risks and manages issues.

•          Manage project scope and change.

•          Accurately forecast, report and manage project costs (budget). Effectively establish and use budget tracking approach and metrics that  accurately tracks team productivity and earned value.

•          Provide reliable top-down and bottom-up estimates as is necessary.

•          Exhibit excellence in all aspects of business and project management.

•          Anticipate client needs and proposes appropriate solutions.

•          Easily recognize areas for improvement and develops plans for implementation, when possible.

•          Lend expertise to teams and task forces.

•          Understand, comply with and enforce standard policies and procedures.

Job Requirements

Specific Line of Service (LOS) Knowledge may include

•          Custom Application Development: Familiarity with current software development languages, basis OO concepts, basic UML and basic understanding of current best practices.  Expertise in the Rapid Process Map (RPM) methodology.

•          Business Intelligence:  Can contribute in crafting BI solutions (e.g. BI Roadmaps). Has some familiarity to data architecture and components (EDW, ETL, Reporting, etc.). Understanding of DBS BI Methodology.

•          ERP Integration: Familiarity with ERP tools. Expertise in ASAP. 

Education Requirement: 4-year college degree, preferably in Computer Science and Business-related studies.

Experience Requirement: 6+ years of experience including demonstrated on-the-job leadership of people and projects

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