Sr. Project Manager

Job#: 1346466

Job Description:

Role: Sr. Project Manager

Type: Long Term Contract

Location: Hybrid- Indianapolis, IN

***Please contact Jordan Christman at [email protected] with a WORD version of your resume if interested!***

Apex Systems, a national leader in IT solutions, is looking for a Sr. Project Manager for a large Consumer Industrial client based in Indianapolis, IN. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8 years’ full time hands-on experience in the role of IT project manager with accountability for end-to-end delivery of multi-million dollar initiatives. Reporting to the Project Management Office, the Senior IT Project Manager will lead and direct high-priority projects and teams, which often require considerable resources, technical domain expertise, and broad functional integration with a high degree of visibility from executive management. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of project performance and delivery throughout the complete project management life-cycle.

Responsibilities:
 
- Project manage IT enterprise-class application development and/or COTS implementation projects up to 2 million dollars in budget
- Deliver 100% of project scope to quality standards within agreed upon schedule and budget
- Create, maintain and manage detailed Microsoft Project Plans; clearly articulating work breakdown structures of deliverables by phase, activity and task; with role assignments and estimates to complete on each task
- Create and maintain project accounting records to accurately reflect all facets of project management for each specific initiative
- Partner with resource managers and functional owners to identify all resources required to execute your plan, negotiate and place resource requests and manage the resource plan for your projects
- Manage changes to project scope, schedule and costs using integrated change control and appropriate verification techniques
- Keep the project plan current and accurate for all team members, as well as manage expectations of stakeholders and team members in accordance with your project plan
- Note detailed business outcomes, constraints and assumptions in order to establish project objectives, deliverables and the project charter
- Monitor, control and report on project performance metrics; measuring progress of the project, identifying and quantifying any variances to plan, and communicate any corrective actions to appropriate stakeholders
- Develop and implement the project communication plans to address the needs of all functional roles within your project organization
- Identify and document project risks, assumptions and constraints on a frequent basis using historical data, expert judgment and other methods to understand project limitations and mitigation tactics
- Implement approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk in order to reduce or negate the probability of impact to your projects

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