Non-Employee Project Manager

  • Location: Riverwoods, Illinois
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #101765

JOB SUMMARY

Title: Project Manager 

Summary:

We’re looking for a solid project manager that can coordinate work across multiple workstreams to ensure the capabilities developed are successfully implemented and launched in market. 

 Required Skills

  • Mastery of project management disciplines.
  • Program or project management certification (PMP or PgMP).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and facilitation skills.
  • Organized, detail-oriented and efficient.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity.

Must have

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business
  • 6+ years of experience in Project Management, or related experience
  • In lieu of a degree, 8+ years of experience with Project Management, or related experience
  • Strong communication skills & ability to influence at all levels
  • Ability to drive and adapt to change in a proactive and positive way

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in Business or related field
  • Prior PMO/Payment Services experience
  • Cross-functional experience
  • Experience driving and launching technology

Responsibilities

  • Define structure for strategically critical initiatives and develop and manage a comprehensive plan for successful product launch
  • Responsible for planning and overseeing product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company’s long term objectives.
  • Orchestrates workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model.
  • Partners with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.
  • Organizes and enables collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, with internal and external partners, executes on architecture & product driven initiatives.
  • Drives or assists in communications on strategic initiatives to help drive consensus, achieve clarity and solve business problems. Provide oversight & process guidance for activities.
  • Facilitate and drive decisions from key stakeholders around financials, scope, risks and dependencies.
  • Partner with product leads and platform leads to develop the business case and ensure alignment on vision and strategy
  • Provides leadership and guidance’s to teams/business units where there is no clear organizational ownership yet defined or where products/technology is not yet institutionalized or adopted.
  • Drives or assists research and/or brainstorming sessions; helps promote a culture of innovation within the department. Translates ideas and concepts into an executable projects.

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