Non-It Project Manager V - Freelance [Remote]

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• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $90 – $100/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Short term
• LOCATION: Remote - United States only

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
Approved Remote Locations:
Baltimore, MD - Boston, MA - Houston, TX - Los Angeles, CA - San Diego, CA
Skills:

• Coordinate projects, make detailed plans to accomplish goals and direct the integration of technical activities
• Confer with management, production and marketing staff to discuss project specifications and procedures.
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients.
• Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates.
• Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence.
• Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
• Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.
• Direct, review and approve product designs and changes.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field.
• PMI or PMP certification preferred.

What You’ll Be Working On
Note: this is a month opportunity
The main function of a non-IT project manager is to plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as engineering, research and development, financial systems and product roll-out, etc, or any other non-IT-based project.
Years of Experience:

• 8-10+ years

Key projects/typical day in the role:

• Project management - delivering projects against milestones
• Deliver transformation roadmap which is system implementations as well as outsourcing
• Creating accountability, digging into work, ensuring all teams are doing their portion of the work, liaison between multiple different teams/stakeholders
• This team supports payroll, so this person will come in and help
• This role will drive project plans - designing solutions, building solutions, testing solutions, data, training

Top Must have skills:

• Proven finance transformation project delivery with measurable ROI
• Some level of proficiency with project management - preference for someone with a PMP

Nice to Have skills:

• Direct, review and approve product designs and changes.
• Review and recommend or approve contracts and cost estimates.
• Present and explain proposals, reports and findings to clients.
• Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
• Recruit employees, assign, direct, and evaluate their work, and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence.
• Coordinate projects, make detailed plans to accomplish goals and direct the integration of technical activities
• Payroll or HR-related projects Skills:
• Confer with management, production and marketing staff to discuss project specifications and procedures.
• Analyze technology, resource needs and market demand, to plan and assess the feasibility of projects.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or a related field.
• PMI or PMP certification preferred.

Apply Now!
Braintrust Job ID: 6582
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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