Sr. IT Project Manager

Title - Project Manager
Location - Columbus, OH (hybrid remote with 4 days onsite)
Duration - 1-3 years
Pay Rate - $90/hr
Responsibilities -

• Leads, owns and manages project delivery for assigned projects
• Responsible for project planning and execution using project artifacts to include: MS Project plans, schedules & resource plans
• Ensure projects are delivered within the agreed upon schedule, budget, and quality constraints.
• Accountable for addressing external and cross team internal dependencies, mitigation and resolution of project level risks and issues.
• Escalates to Project Owner and Executive Sponsors as necessary.
• Acts as the communications conduit to Project Owner, Sponsors and Steering Committee by conducting periodic briefings/status updates as well as providing support and guidance for general communications to key stakeholders.
• Builds and maintains a comprehensive Project Plan/Schedule with Project Schedule rollups.
• Ensures all Projects adheres to the Program/Project Management Quality Framework, the Global PMO policies and procedures, and other compliance processes where applicable.
• Produces weekly status along with financial reporting and metrics.
• Identifies and manages dependencies
• Continuously monitors plan focusing on activities and milestones at risk
• Facilitates population of risk register and keeps risk management plan up to date
• Provides proactive communication of project risks
• Creates alerts to notify project Sponsor and Steering Committee of upcoming due dates and emerging issues
• Creates status reports, dashboards, milestone reviews, and ad hoc reports
• Participates in deliverable creation as necessary – especially business analysis and user story creation • Validates and approves deliverables

Qualifications -

• 7-15 years of Project Management experience including IT
• Bachelor's Degree required
• PMP Certification Desired
• Must have experience managing multiple projects & multiple work streams concurrently
• Experience managing timelines and the dependencies of a timeline for a program or multiple workstreams of a project
• Jira Plan Management
• Confluence
• Microsoft Office skills
• Financial or insurance background is a plus