Senior Project Manager - Enterprise Applications

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Position Overview:
Project management responsibilities include the coordination and completion of projects on time within budget and within scope. This includes activity and resource planning, organizing and motivating a project team, controlling time management, cost estimating and developing the budget, ensuring customer satisfaction, analyzing and managing project risk, monitoring progress and managing reports and necessary documentation are all key parts to being a successful project manager.
Location:
Remote
Reports To:
Senior Manager Enterprise Applications
Responsibilities:
The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Facilitates the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables for specific projects, as assigned.
• Develops detailed project plans and budgets, managing all relevant aspects, ie resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training and on-time delivery within budget constraints.
• Responsible for coordinating complex initiatives and projects from initiation to successful completion.
• Tracks and maintains project plans and project deliverables and communicates on milestones and progress.
• Assists the department managers in creating documentation, plans, etc. and maintains that documentation on an ongoing basis.
• Coordinates project meetings with internal and cross-functional teams, generates meeting materials and produces post-meeting deliverables.
• Effectively work with the teams to identify/mitigate project risks and participates in the creation of risk contingency plans.
• Detects, tracks and solves project issues effectively.
• Recognizes areas for internal improvement and work with teams to develop plans for implementing them.
• Collaborate across all business units to control resource requests while aligning to budgets and project plans.
• Solicits customer feedback where applicable and benchmarks external best practices to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Identifies key metrics to help prioritize and monitor critical activities, ensuring consistent and effective tracking and reporting of progress.
• Leverages data to generate organization and people insights, which in turn influence areas of focus and strengthen decision-making.
• Perform various administrative tasks as needed, including: logistics for meetings and workshops, room bookings, catering, and visitor registration.
• Provides regular updates of the progress and status of specific projects.
• Recommended improvements and troubleshoots all implementation issues.
• Drives initiatives in support of department and organizational goals.
• Demonstrates a commitment to Paylocity Core Values.
• Maintains on-going documentation on project status and monitors progress towards completion while adjusting resources and plan accordingly to meet project requirements.
• Ensure successful delivery.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8+ years' experience working with large teams on projects that are deadline-driven

Preferred Skills:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience mentoring and/or developing others.
• Strong leadership skills - must be able to work confidently and effectively with multiple departments and levels within the company
• Experience with agile development tools such as JIRA.
• PMP or MSP Certification

Soft Skills:

• Highly organized and able to multi-task
• Exceptional communication skills
• Excellent presentation and customer service skills
• Strong technical aptitude to quickly learn new technologies/internal software systems and identify user applications
• Experience within a customer service focused organization
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment a strong asset

Paylocity is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.
We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.
This role can be performed from any office in the US. The pay range for this position is $97,000 - $122,000yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via www.paylocity.com/careers .