Title: Project Manager (Waterfall)

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Onsite/Hybrid: Hybrid – 2 days a week onsite

Terms: W2

Core Competencies

• 5 to 7+ years of current project management experience delivering IT projects with a minimum budget of $150K preferred.
• Has successfully delivered IT projects from start to finish.
• Familiar with or has used effort-driven project planning techniques in MS Project.
• Demonstrates high levels of capability in all project management competencies, including: planning, executing, monitoring and controlling of IT projects.
• Project Management Institute PMP Certification preferred.
• Experience managing development projects in financial services or insurance companies; commercial property and casualty insurance a plus.
• Experience managing vendors, requesting and executing SOWs.
• Demonstrates a personal sense of urgency to complete day-to-day work. Must drive for results from self and project team members. Must know when to push back on perceived limitations and when to be flexible and accept the limitation.
• Exercises strong leadership capabilities; presents “executive presence” – especially when delivering difficult messages to stakeholders and leaders; calm and collected under pressure; takes accountability for entire project and outcomes.
• Demonstrates strong customer focus; is responsive, consultative, collaborative and accurate in work approach. Considers project impacts and outcomes from the business (customer’s) perspective.
• Experience directly managing and forecasting project financials (reconciling invoices, timekeeping, etc.)
• Able to create clear, concise messaging to all organizational levels.
• Exercises sound judgment, making informed, successful decisions from a set of complex options.
• Willing to develop technical understanding of the systems involved and ability to understand data flow and the high-level technical architecture.
• Ability to learn project management and financial planning tools as required.
• Hands on experience in using advanced techniques of Microsoft Project Server or MS-Project is required.
• Hands on experience on Clarity, Planview or similar tools is desired.