IT Project Manager

Company Description

Saxon Global is one of the fastest growing Inc 500 Companies in
the US, providing enhanced IT consulting, and engineering solution
services from past 16 years. Saxon global specializes in Business
Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data & Cloud and provides IT tools and
services to help organizations across industry verticals such as
Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Healthcare, Banking and Media
Entertainment for their continued growth.

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager II

Job Duration: 6 + Months Contract

Interview Method: Phone then In Person

Address: Boise Idaho USA 83705

Top Five Must Haves:

· Ability to develop and maintain a project plan including dependencies, resource constraints, and level of effort

· Able to proactively anticipate slippages based on the monitoring of the plan

· Gathers, tracks and monitors issues and risks and confirms that appropriate mitigation plans are in place

· Escalates where appropriate

· Records and monitors project actual costs vs. project budget

Job Description:

· Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.

· Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.

· Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.

· Develops project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and manages effective execution of the initiatives.

· Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.

· Brokers services within IBS and Client’s vendors on behalf of the business area represented.

· Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.

· Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.

· Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.

· Frequently interacts with IBS staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.

· Must be willing to travel up to 35% of the time.

· Performs related duties as assigned.

· Good interpersonal skills

· Excellent relationship building skills

· Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing

· Good group presentation skills.

· Good analytical and problem-solving skills

· Good mathematical skills

· Excellent organizational skills

· Excellent leadership skills

· Good staff development skills

· Knowledge of computers to operative effectively with computer hardware such as general mainframe, midrange, network and desktop technologies; computer software includes application development lifecycle, MS Office Suite, Outlook

Qualifications

Top Five Must Haves:

· Ability to develop and maintain a project plan including dependencies, resource constraints, and level of effort

· Able to proactively anticipate slippages based on the monitoring of the plan

· Gathers, tracks and monitors issues and risks and confirms that appropriate mitigation plans are in place

· Escalates where appropriate

· Records and monitors project actual costs vs. project budget

· Knowledge
of computers to operative effectively with computer hardware such as
general mainframe, midrange, network and desktop technologies; computer
software includes application development lifecycle, MS Office Suite,
Outlook

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.