Project Executive

Workstream: Project Management

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Job Description:

• Provide project management of large complex, multi-workstream software migration projects for clients on the IBM Z platform.
• Provide business direction to other Project Managers who will also be assigned to the project.
• Consult with management and review project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, and allocation of resources.
• Analyze the need for and provide the necessary project management for project planning, execution (including the development of project plans)
• Report on project activities, changes in scope, challenges, and requirements to the leadership team as a strategic tool in keeping implementers and decision makers moving toward consistent, business or mission-focused goals and objectives.
• Communicate with management internally and at the customer on ongoing status, milestones, and project risks.
• Review and analyze processes & procedures in order to find opportunities for improvement and increased efficiency, then help drive implementation of these improvements.
• Monitor, assess, and improve the effectiveness of program best practices, ensuring continual process and quality improvement with a primary focus on the client account.
• This is a remote job opportunity which will require some travel to client sites across North America.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise :

• At least ten years of technical project management experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of operations and project management skills.
• Demonstrated excellent written and communications skills.
• Experience managing cross-functional technical teams, with overall responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to organize competing priorities and adapt to change.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple interrelated multi-year projects for 1-2 customers concurrently.
• Demonstrated success at managing multi-year customer change management.

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise :

• PMP or PRINCE2 certification
• IBM Z Mainframe experience
• Experience with IBM Z software products
• Microsoft Office (Word, PPT) certification
• Experience doing application development on IBM Z, including programming languages like Cobol or PL/1 is a plus.