Project Manager

Requisition Number: 104921 

Provide engineer support and project management for a wide variety of large and complex program onboardings to achieve successful completion and delivery of projects within scope, schedule and budget.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with pre-sales to design the scope on customized programs and be the communication between operations and the pre-sales team to align capabilities
• Review all contracts for operational viability and confirmation of operational costs
• Support cost model development with pre-sales, ensuring all operational costs are captured in the model
• Own SOW and cost model review and approval with stakeholders and ensuring absolute accuracy to the client deliverables
• Provide leadership a risk assessment prior to SOW signature for all programs directly owned by you and your team
• Launch and run the toll gate strategy and include client customizations as necessary
• Develop the program implementation strategy with Sr. Managers by documenting process maps, RACIs, keeping a log on all action items and holding stakeholders accountable for their actions and deadlines
• Determining POC design for the program and understand when the organization needs to test end to end processes vs when the organization needs a standard POC
• Responsible for identifying risks and helping implementation engineers on their risks and mitigation plans and when necessary providing a completed staff work to leadership
• Ensure a proper hand off between onboarding and the steady state program operations inclusive of:  TAM training, finalized program process map delivery, run rate program RACI, sales order structure requirements, after action review & optimization opportunity review and a completed and approved POC
• Actively seek to improve processes, find and drive efficiencies across all programs, with a continuous goal of reducing cost and enabling a positive client experience
• Consistently demonstrate and model key organizational behaviors of customer service, teamwork, collaboration and excellence
• Maintains customer satisfaction by investigating concerns, implementing corrective action, and communicating with customers and assigned staff
• Establishes a professional relationship with the customer and interfaces constantly to maintain accurate status reports and project reviews
• Own and manage POCs while designing and developing technical work instructions
• Provide overview and engagement where needed for Infrastructure services in all areas needed: storage networking, Operating System, network security, directory services, server virtualization using system backup and restore, system and network monitoring, application installation and configuration
• Partner with Professional Services Team for infrastructure implementation
• Responsible for the team’s developmental goals and departmental level action plans
• Joint ownership of complex project  build out with Sr. PM
• Joint ownership of tollgate changes and optimizations
• Escalation management from the sales team and providing readouts to leadership
• Responsible for the AAR for program onboarding
• Flexibility to work outside normal work hours as required
• Ownership of the internal weekly status meeting, ensuring feedback and continuous improvement is being followed by all teammates
• Partnering with your team on developing content for executive level status updates on onboardings
• Responsible for ensuring teammates follow best practices and proper procedures for onboarding

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or similar.  Position requires 3-4 years hands on experience within similar industry.  Familiarity with the following systems desirable:  Windows, Cisco Systems, UNIX, Linux, Novell.  Must be able to work with both ends of basic level testing as well as high level testing and documentation.
• Hands on experience with Wired and Wireless networking, PC and server virtualization software, virus protection, backup systems.
• Excellent organization, communication, negotiation and problem solving skills
• Strong Proficiency in the Microsoft Suite including Outlook, Excel, Word, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint and Project
• Strong Analytical skills such as being able to extract data, organize it, utilize it to make key business decisions and communicate/present it throughout the organization
• Proven understanding of corporate account business needs and knowledge of the IT industry
• A deep project management experience and broad technology knowledge with the ability to facilitate the architecting of solutions by mapping common customer business problems to reusable end-to-end solutions
• Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level business and technology decision maker discussions

Value added skills

• PM Experience
• SAP experience
• Certification in Project Management
• LEAN or Agile Certification
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Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.

Posting Notes: Hanover Park || Illinois (US-IL) || United States (US) || IT Infrastructure & Support || None || US - Hanover Park, IL ||