Project Manager Ii Jobs

The Project Manager plans, organizes, secures, and manages resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Projects are temporary endeavors with defined beginning and end and are usually constrained by time and resources. The role partners with project stakeholders, internal customers, external vendors, and cross-functional teams. Facilitates a cross-functional team to execute on defined deliverables and drives key decisions. Common deliverables typically include the project charter, scope definition, requirements documents, work activities, project schedule, risk register, communication plan, resource plan, risk management plan, procurement plans, project budget, quality control plan, status updates, reporting, and tracking. Uses industry recognized/generally accepted PM knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to achieve a project's stated objectives. Typically, does not independently deliver content or decisions which define final project deliverables.

Major Tasks

• Anticipates and identifies tasks required to support change processing including performing change impact analysis, assigning tasks to project team members, verbally communicating complex issues, verifying that tasks are completed, and communicating implementation status.
• Leads medium to large and/or moderately complex projects under moderate to minimal supervision
• Accountability for planning of resources for tasks, allocation, estimation, & scheduling.
• Oversees projects which have a typical cycle of 6 - 18 months.
• Translates project requirements into project objectives and tasks.
• Evaluates the impacts and risks of changes from multiple perspectives, assigns tasks that are necessary to reduce or eliminate those considerations, determines tentative implementation dates, and tracks results of the implementation.
• Creates and applies project control techniques that reduce risk from changing technological infrastructure, hardware, automations, systems software, or applications systems.
• Measures progress toward goals and revises project objectives; documents applying change control procedures.
• Oversees the project budget which includes tracking and monitoring spend to project milestones.
• Establishes and implements project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, adhere to high-quality standards, and meet customer expectations
• Develops detailed project schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports; tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans and/or resources.
• Builds relationships with key stakeholders and project resources to drive key decisions and ensure timely project completion.
• Projects typically span across organizations (departments) but may also directly affect a business, the unit and/or the entire company.
• Coordinates the resources necessary to successfully complete the project.
• Develops methods to measure customer satisfaction; obtains feedback at critical milestones and at project completion to ensure that project efforts meeting customer expectations for time, cost, and results.
• Produce and report on KPIs and metrics.
• Manages actions at this level which may cause or prevent delays and cause inefficiencies of a team and may cause unnecessary expense affecting operational results.
• Sets and manages client expectations, managing and escalating issues and changes.
• Documents and understands what the technical environment dependencies are for each project to support an end to end integrated environment.
• Communicates major milestones and identifies potential project risks; conducts regular status meetings to review project activities; manages prioritization procedures.
• Takes responsibility for changes to applications software and systems environments to ensure that changes to the environment have been properly analyzed and adequately coordinated and do not adversely impact the company's ability to meet published customer service level agreements.
• Develops and executes management plans for time, cost, scope, quality, communications, risk, human resources, procurement, and integration.
• Manages, the creation and tracking of processes, procedures, and documentation that improve environment stability, availability, and production parity
• Reports on project progress throughout the project lifecycle
• Accountable for tracking and managing the creation of functional designs; identifies risks and benefits of alternate designs; calculates costs/benefits of potential actions or solutions to establish their viability/ROI; assesses project impact of system changes on users and internal and external customers and stakeholders.
• Provides guidance and direction to other project team members.
• Reporting, communications, relationships, and sphere of influence typically occur within team and key stakeholders

Qualifications

Required:

• Project Management Certification is required
• Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
• OR MS/MA degree in a related
• BS/BA degree in a related discipline with 2 years of experience in a related field;
• Or 6 years of experience in a related field
• Requires working knowledge of functional or related processes

Preferred

• Experience in the telecommunication industry desired
• BS/BA degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred

This is a remote position. You must be located in a Cox Business market.

USD 70,000.00 - 105,000.00 per year

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