Project Manager, Professional Services

Abacus Group is a fast-growing technology company focused on providing Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms & Healthcare clients with cloud-based IT solutions. They are seeking an independent and motivated Project Manager to develop consolidated project plans and interact with global business and technical teams to ensure successful project completion.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a full understanding of customer requirements, identifying project deliverables and outcomes
• Working with clients from project initiation to completion, which encompasses the planning, organizing, and management of resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives
• Develop and monitor schedules to ensure that projects are completed within established deadlines
• Assist with the development of project plans, including project timelines, budgets, and resource requirements
• Identifying project risks, mitigation strategies and communicating status and risk issues to stakeholders
• Lead status meetings, tracks and maintains detailed issues and risks lists, and prepares appropriate project meeting minutes and status reports
• Meet regularly with related service providers to ensure that integration issues are identified and resolved
• Interfaces with all levels of business and technical management staff, as well as project teams to facilitate problem resolution and the resolution of competing priorities
• Monitors team progress to ensure that project objectives are met

Requirements:

• Must have 3-5 years of experience in executing small to mid-sized technology projects focused on client infrastructure onboarding
• Must possess strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. Must be motivated, decisive, flexible, and possess sound business judgment
• Ability to handle and manage stressful situations in a professional manner
• Strong presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to lead meetings
• Strong proficiency in Office 365, SharePoint and Azure
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project or the equivalent
• Ability to manage multiple tactical and strategic project initiatives
• Ability to manage remote resources and projects
• Ability to prioritize project requests from business and technical teams
• Ability to protect project scope and set expectations with the customer
• Experience within an IT Service Provider environment would be advantageous
• Relevant Project Management certification a plus