Project Manager

2 months ago

North Chicago, United States Vertex Group Full time

Must be Local to IL

Green Card or US Citizen Only
- Drive Project Success and Completion: Understand and drive leadership of the project to success. Build key relationships with stakeholders, mentor team members and demonstrate leadership at all levels.
- Initiate and Plan Project: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives, financials, and deliverables.
- Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect the project, working with business and IT management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.
- Executing and Closing Project: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Leads team in delivering project scope. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
- Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to project teams, business, and IT management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
- Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Motivates project team to deliver project outcomes.
- Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and functional policies and procedures.
- Decisions: Make decisions that impact project level activities.
- Drive Continuous Improvement of Project Process and Governance: Will continually examine Plans/Risks/Issues to identify gaps in project communication or process, and holding project team accountable for improvement, to drive proactive solutions as the project is ongoing. Escalate issues that need permanent process changes.

**Job Type**: Contract

Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Compensation package:

- 1099 contract

Experience level:

- 10 years

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

**Experience**:

- Clarity PPM: 5 years (required)
- Organization Change Management: 3 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in North Chicago, IL 60064

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