*Position: Project Manager with PEGA experience * *Location: Bala Cynwyd, PA*
*Duration: 6 months* *PEGA experience must* *Job Summary* Position is responsible for project/program management leadership of initiatives for Company and its Group Companies. This position resides in IT - Enterprise Project Management Office and executes business plan projects that enable realization of the strategic objectives and tactical business plan goals. *Job Responsibilities* - Leader skilled and responsible for partnering with the project owner/sponsor and all stakeholders to create and implement appropriate and cost efficient solutions based on business objectives. - Assists in identification of project's business value; ongoing monitoring of value attainment within the project lifecycle and development of realization tracking method. - Acts as project manager, with leadership responsibilities for a matrixed team on medium to large sized projects. Manages results as outlined in the project's triple constraints of budget, schedule and scope (objective/quality/performance.) - Represents team recommendations to Senior Management, demonstrate influence over governance bodies, and communicate effectively via formal presentations. - Builds strong relationships with business and technology leaders. Understands business area opportunities and challenges, process or system impacts to all related business or systems areas when implementing recommended solution to obtain business objectives. - Ensures that project management governance is followed and change management procedures and supporting tools are used in executing all projects as appropriate. - Manages deliverable estimation process, resource allocation and efficient utilization; negotiates resource conflicts with other project managers or resources managers as appropriate. - Communicates technical issues, impact, and risk mitigation strategies in business terminology that can be communicated to and understood by non-technical. - Provides ongoing status updates on project progress, risks, change management and issue resolution. Leads issue identification, tracking, escalation and resolution documentation. Monitors risk events before becoming issues and potential roadblocks. - Creates and maintains project plan (charters and schedules), and reviews them with the appropriate IT partners, business partners and steering committees. This includes tracking plans against agreed upon resource levels, timelines and budgets. - Strong customer service orientation (responsive, consultative, collaborative and accurate). - Strong interpersonal relationship building skills - able to work with a variety of people and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner. - Excellent communication skills combined with experience leading a matrix project team. - Excellent teamwork, critical thinking, analytical, judgment and interpersonal skills. - Highly proficient in use of project management discipline and best practices (PMBOK driven) - Competent in the use of all project management and analytical software tools. Expert in Microsoft Office Suite - Expert in Microsoft Project 2007,2010 or 2013 - Expertise in Portfolio Management techniques and analytical software tools. Experience with Microsoft Project Server desired - Expertise in methodology development, training and process control. - Ability to manage business process improvement and/or software development or system implementation projects - Ability to quickly learn and use new complex technical concepts and resolve issues with them in a rapidly changing environment. QUALIFICATIONS - Four-year degree in Business Administration, Technology Management, related field or equivalent proven project management experience and success. - Project *Management Institute PMP Certification desired (willingness* to obtain within a year of hire) - Experience - 4+ years of project management experience guiding medium to large sized (6-12 month, $250K -$5 Million) projects to implementation. - Experience in managing application development projects in financial or insurance sectors - P&C domain knowledge is a plus - Experience in managing technical infrastructure projects and/or component deliverables a plus - Experience managing project teams (15+ people) operating within a matrix organization. - Experience managing 3rd party vendors in development, testing and staff augmentation - Working knowledge or experience in *managing Agile and Iterative/ Waterfall development* projects desired - Working knowledge or experiences in managing *Business Process Management Application Implementation, such as Pega is plus* *Regards,* *Vijay* 972-756-1212 * 132 *|| GTalk*: vijay.smist* ||** YIM*: vijayinventit || -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. 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