Job Description

Title – Project Manager- Disaster Recovery

Location – Folsom, NJ

Position – 3-6 months with probable extensions

Roles & Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of highly complex internal projects,including approval, planning, execution, and closeout to ensure planned results are achieved on time and budget
• Develop comprehensive schedule and drives progress to plan, proactively managing changes
• Work with vendors and team to establish and achieve project goals
• Ensure that requirements are properly articulated, prioritized and detailed on roadmaps and backlogs
• Identify projects issues, gaps, conflicts, and propose solutions
• Track critical project deliverables with core team and facilitates solutions when issues arise
• Work as the liaison between clients, business leads, functional leads, SME’s(subject matter experts), application analysts, developers and other technical team members to assist and document solutions to complex business problems
• Address problems through risk management and contingency planning and presents solutions and/or options to executive management. Ensures effective implementation of solutions/changes
• Facilitate and leads large project meetings to drive delivery.
• May act as a Subject Matter Expert in a given area of the organization and provides guidance as needed
• Oversee the development of documentation writing and gathering in accordance with policy and SOX auditing compliance
• Act as a single point of contact for project status. Maintains communication with stakeholders.
• Recommend new solutions and projects in alignment with strategic plans and business requirements
• Demonstrate consistent exercise of independent judgment
• Ability to communicate complicated technical concepts to non-technical Clients
• Write and present effective communications to business sponsors and end-users
• Demonstrate critical thinking, problem solving ability and initiative
• Dedicated to continuous process improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospectives,and individual improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with and knowledge of Enterprise Business Systems
• Knowledge of Windows-based hardware and software applications required
• MS Office Suite, Visio, MS Project, Gantt Charts or other project management tools
• Excellent communication and analytical skills required
• Excellent client relations and customer services skills required
• SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle) best practices
• PMO(Project Management Office) best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• A four-year Bachelors’ degree in Business, Computer Sciences or related field. Significant experience may be substituted for the educational requirement.
• PMI(Project Management Institute) Certification desired

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