Project Manager
Alight Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $80,200 - $95,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- The Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing all phases of assigned projects, including initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure.
- This role ensures projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget while meeting quality standards.
- Managing changes to scope, schedule, and costs using verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate and ensure customer acceptance.
- Ensuring a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, to align the stakeholders and team members.
- Monitoring project performance using tools and techniques to track progress, address variances, take corrective actions, and update stakeholders.
- Managing execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.
- Defining roles and responsibilities to identify key team members and establish the project organization for the communication plan.
- Implementing approved actions and workarounds to mitigate risks and minimize their impact on the project.
- Managing and documenting customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders to define deliverables using requirement-gathering techniques and the project charter.
- Improving team performance by fostering cohesion, mentoring, training, and motivating to ensure cooperation, efficiency, and morale.
- Applying active listening skills and communicating information and ideas in a way that others understand.
- Building mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.
Requirements
- Have knowledge of the current delivery model and ability to adapt to future changes.
- Define project roles, responsibilities, methodology, tools and best practices
- Able to develop, implement, and maintain standardized processes to ensure consistency and efficiency across projects.
- Demonstrate Entry level knowledge of Project Management process and tools.
- Have experience communicating effectively with leadership and direct client contact.
- Have experience with software methodology development processes.
- Able to create presentations and write business cases under direct involvement by a more senior project or program manager.
- Able to work under tight deadlines.
- Project budgeting/costing knowledge.
- Able to solve problems and deal with a variety of work situations.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office and SmartSheets.
- Have PMP Certification or working toward certification within 12 months
- Have 3 or more years project management and 5+ years of professional work experience.
Benefits
- Options include a variety of health coverage options
- wellbeing and support programs
- retirement
- vacation and sick leave
- maternity, paternity & adoption leave
- continuing education and training
- several voluntary benefit options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
project managementproject budgetingrequirement-gathering techniquesproject planningproject executionproject controlrisk managementstakeholder managementprocess developmentmethodology
Soft skills
active listeningcommunicationteam performance improvementmentoringtrainingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycooperationtrust-buildingleadership
Certifications
PMP Certification