Sr. PeopleSoft HCM Project Manager

100% Remote...........PST work schedule

The key requirements are:

• 7+ years of hands-on, end-to-end project management experience, with 8 10+ years preferred
• Strong PeopleSoft HCM project leadership experience, ideally across modules such as Benefits, GL, Payroll, Absence Management, WFA, or ePerformance
• Experience managing SDLC-related projects and multiple complex or multi-phased initiatives
• Strong executive communication, project planning, risk management, budget, and schedule management skills
• PMP and higher-education experience are preferred

Knowledge Skills

• Requires basic knowledge of project management principles, theories, and concepts.
• Requires ability to assess campus, medical center or Office of the President needs for information technology products and design services to meet those needs
• Working knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives
• Demonstrated capacity to anticipate obstacles and plan for contingencies.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to determine relevance and prioritize tasks.
• Demonstrated effective writing skills.
• Broad knowledge of technology-related initiatives and an understanding of impact to the organization of such initiatives.
• Proven leadership ability.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to put forth persuasive arguments.
• Demonstrated competency in selecting and implementing project management methods and techniques.
• Effective skill at tracking effort and project progress.
• Demonstrated strong conceptual and planning skills to analyze projects of broad and diverse scope.
• Demonstrated expert organization and project management skills.
• Understands the cost impact of projects, project tracking tools and metrics.
• Has a thorough understanding of how programs relate to other business strategies and initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate critical information across disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with executive level management on a regular basis.
• Experience analyzing highly complex projects with broad impact to the institution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project progress within time and budget constraints.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner in order to achieve results that are significant in scope

Key Responsibilities

• Applies project management techniques, up to and including the most complex and advanced, to independently perform research and studies, up to and including the most complex, for internal department and external campus, medical center or Office of the President constituencies.
• Regularly leads analyses determining approaches, sources of data, methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain project results.
• Manages the project management process for products and services with broad, campus wide, medical center or Office of the President, institution-wide and / or multi-institutional scope.
• Directs and analyzes project proposals and reports.
• Has overall project management responsibility for broad, campus wide, medical center or Office of the President, institution-wide and or multi-institutional projects.
• Assembles and directs large project teams, designs highly detailed and complex project plans and schedules and may oversee budget and resources.
• Oversees all aspects of large projects from initiation through delivery including system integration, project, campus, medical center or Office of the President and community communications, interacting with vendors and managing risk.
• Organizes the interdepartmental or multi-institutional activities with the goal of completing the project on schedule and within budget constraints.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as lead Project Manager with hands-on experience managing the project directly, responsible from end to end
• Experience managing SDLC related projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training
• Project Management Professional certification (highly preferred)
• PeopleSoft module project management experience (WFA, ePerformance, etc. highly preferred)
• Experience managing projects in higher education domain