Senior Project Manager Hybrid New Jersey

Vega is Hiring! Communications / Strategic Project Manager for our direct Client. Seeking W2 based candidate for a 6 month+ project with our direct client. Candidate must be local and live within a commutable distance to Parsippany, N.J.

Essential Duties
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Lead Project Manager will be responsible for delivering multiple strategic efforts across various departments. This role will be a part of the Project and Portfolio Management organization and reports to the Director - Project and Portfolio Management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Using hands-on and a proactive approach to ensure that value is delivered - with full responsibility for all aspects of a project including managing milestones, identifying and tracking issues and risks, and driving the team to meet project goals.
• Creating visibility into the project activities and milestones while balancing the desire to follow an agile and iterative software development process.
• Partnering with other digital delivery groups to align ongoing efforts
• Contributing to the team by participating in solution definition and removing roadblocks
• Attaining full knowledge of the functional area and helps the project teams to focus on achieving desired business outcomes.
• Surfacing challenges that require cross team coordination or leadership intervention prior to them impacting scope, cost or the timeline.
• Establishing a good cadence for communicating outside the team including conducting effective meetings for the given audience by managing the agenda, running the meeting and communicating/tracking follow-ups.
• Establishing strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders
• Helping the team in identifying development opportunities and challenging the team to actively work on improving their performance
• Managing budgets, forecasts and vendor teams; Coordinates vendor selection and contracting.
• Ensuring alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy and roadmap.
• Ensures project or framework specific governance is implemented

Job Requirment:

Education/Experience

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field or relevant experience
• 10+ years of managing initiatives in information technology specifically in application development, COTS implementation and integration projects
• Proven experience in delivering customer facing applications
• Must have experience in applying project management frameworks that are best suited to the needs of the project to deliver value.
• Must have strong experience in managing large, complex projects
• Training and certifications in traditional project management and/or agile methodologies is preferred

If you have the required Project Manager Skills and live in New Jersey, select "Apply Now" and a Vega Staffing Specialist will reach out to you.