Description:

This is a great position with a company local to Lansing, MI - there are onsite requirements so please only apply if you are local to the area!!

Top Skills:

• IT Program Management experience

• IT Project Management experience

• Experience managing enterprise level software development projects

• Experience leading an enterprise level application modernization project

• Experience working with executives

• Experience with resource management (Developers, IT BA’s)

• Experience using a project portfolio management system and tools (e.g.) Clarity.

• In-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standard and best practices.

• Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs.

• Vendor management experience

• RFI or RFP experience

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast paced, multi-vendor deployment supporting a hybrid workforce (combination of on-site and remote work) at all levels of the organization. Applicants should possess exceptional communication and follow up skills along with significant experience in formal IT project management.

What is most important for this role is someone who has experience as a PM leading a large scale application modernization project and have been apart of a RFP process.

Duties:

• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.

• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.

• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and DTMB management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.

• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.

o Project Charter - Project Schedule – Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary

• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies

• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.

• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.

• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.

• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.

• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.