Senior Project Manager

NWN is the leading AI-powered technology solutions provider for North America's most innovative public and private organizations. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing and implementing NWN IT-based business solutions, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards, are on time, and conform to customer requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a project portfolio including large-scale and/or complex projects while maintaining 80% billable utilization
• Maintain projects across multiple Services offerings (Network, Collaboration, Video)
• Responsible for driving project and portfolio success: Maintaining high customer satisfaction while keeping projects on schedule and within budget
• Direct and coordinate all activities of project personnel and shared corporate resources and partner/3 rd party resources to ensure projects progress on schedule and within budget
• Forecast revenue regularly & accurately across all projects within portfolio and mitigate any risks to those commitments throughout the project life cycle
• NWN's Project Management delivery methodology including but not limited to:
• Planning and Scheduling: Defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables. Creating detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation
• Budget Management: Monitoring project budgets, controlling costs, and ensuring the project stays within financial constraints. Lastly, ensuring proper change control when scope or controls merits additional cost coverage
• Team Leadership: Leading project teams, assigning tasks, managing resources, and fostering collaboration among team members
• Risk Management: Identifying potential project risks, developing mitigation strategies, and handling issues as they arise
• Communication: Acting as the main point of contact between stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication, and providing regular project updates
• Quality Control: Ensuring that project deliverables meet quality standards and requirements
• Stakeholder Management: Engaging with stakeholders to understand their needs, managing their expectations, and ensuring their satisfaction
• Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking project progress, using project management tools to monitor performance, and preparing status reports
• Documentation: Maintaining comprehensive project documentation, including plans, reports, and records which are accessible to the organization
• Change Management: Handling changes to the project scope, timeline, or budget and ensuring that changes are communicated and managed effectively
• Understand and articulate all NWN service offerings and capabilities
• Represent NWN with contractors, suppliers, customers, departments, and other parties as required
• Leading project teams to deliver against scoped deliverables that may include other Project Managers and sub-projects
• Ability to provide mentoring and/or coaching of Project Managers and Project Coordinators
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
• PMP Certification
• Business Analyst type experience candidate with the ability to collect and develop business and technical requirements
• 8+ years of experience with IT project management experience
• 8+ years of experience developing project plans including a project plan that includes the charter, scope, project management approach, management plans, statement of work, cost estimates, schedule
• 8+ years of experience working with cross-functional teams and staff of all levels
• Advanced level experience managing project financials including forecasting, 3rd party cost controls, and budget baseline
• Knowledge of project management best practices (PMBOK traditionally)
• Advanced level experience (reorganizing large or complex projects into master and subprojects, optimizing resource assignments across projects, tracking schedules for completeness and budget on complex, connecting project managers, teams and data across the organization) with management tool, such as MS Project or Excel
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow Project Management Module (highly desirable)
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities
• Excellent problem solving and negotiation skills
• Able to provide their own transportation and travel between offices
• Exceptional client facing communications and presentation skills