Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for leading small to mid-sizeIT infrastructure projects and managed services engagements from early planning phases thru to completion. This role will have a strong technical project management background, with the ability to drive complex technical projects with client sponsors and IT engineers. This role requires strong customer facing & polished presentation skills. The Project Manager will be involved early in the sales cycle (along with sales and solution architect teams) help scope future projects and managed services-based work.
Responsibilities:

• Lead small to medium sized project teams to deliver key initiatives and be the point person accountable for successful delivery.
• Drive and manage the requirements gathering, project tasks, milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines.
• Facilitate envisioning, roadmap development, design, and planning workshops
• Clearly communicate project status, risks, issues, and remediation plans
• Develop and execute resource management plans
• Develop and track financial reporting, including budget, actual spend and forecast
• Assist leadership team with establishing, implementing, developing, and controlling best practices for project management throughout the organization. This includes defining and documenting all policies and processes of project lifecycles to deliver these projects according to plan and within budget
• Assist with development during various sales phases and deliverables, including Identifying opportunities, project scoping/estimating, SOW development, and presenting SOWs to clients

Qualifications:

• Capable of interfacing with all levels of leadership and staff (Exec leadership team thru individual contributors)
• Polished communicator adept at producing advanced, client-ready presentations such as assessments, road maps, design documents, etc.
• Strong understanding of various project management and IT Ops methodologies (Microsoft Solution Framework, PMLC, ITIL, etc.)
• Strong understanding of financial management concepts (Earned value management, budget development, actual spend tracking, forecast development and financial reporting)
• General understanding related to: Private and public cloud (primarily Azure, AWS, and M365) | Networking and security infrastructure | Spam and anti-virus filtering | Storage and server infrastructure | Backup & disaster recovery | Email Solutions | Database infrastructure | Server and desktop virtualization | PBX, VoIP, and unified communications| Enterprise client deployment and management | Remote access solutions | compliance • Experience working for a systems integrator or as part of a consulting organization
• Bachelor's degree related to Information Technology and 5 years' experience in IT consulting OR 10 years' experience in IT consulting.
• 5+ years managing small to medium sized IT projects
• ITIL and PMP desirable but not required