Project Manager, Professional Services

Responsibilities

• (including but not limited to the following)
• Develop a full understanding of customer requirements, identifying project deliverables and outcomes.
• Working with clients from project initiation to completion, which encompasses the planning, organizing, and management of resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
• Develop and monitor schedules to ensure that projects are completed within established deadlines.
• Assist with the development of project plans, including project timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Identifying project risks, mitigation strategies and communicating status and risk issues to stakeholders.
• Lead status meetings, tracks and maintains detailed issues and risks lists, and prepares appropriate project meeting minutes and status reports.
• Meet regularly with related service providers to ensure that integration issues are identified and resolved.
• Interfaces with all levels of business and technical management staff, as well as project teams to facilitate problem resolution and the resolution of competing priorities.
• Monitors team progress to ensure that project objectives are met.
• What you need to do to be effective in this role
• Demonstrate experience in a project delivery environment.
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Strong Presentation skills; able to collate and summarize meetings.
• An interest in Technology and/or business operational improvement.
• A self-motivated individual, able to work independently and part of a larger team
• Be flexible for evening and weekend work
• Essential Skills and Experience Required:
• Must have 3-5 years of experience in executing small to mid-sized technology projects focused on client infrastructure onboarding,
• Must possess strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. Must be motivated, decisive, flexible, and possess sound business judgment.
• Ability to handle and manage stressful situations in a professional manner.
• Strong presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to lead meetings.
• Strong proficiency in Office 365, SharePoint and Azure.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project or the equivalent.
• Ability to manage multiple tactical and strategic project initiatives.
• Ability to manage remote resources and projects.
• Ability to prioritize project requests from business and technical teams.
• Ability to protect project scope and set expectations with the customer.
• Experience within an IT Service Provider environment would be advantageous.
• Relevant Project Management certification a plus.
• The Benefits of Working for Abacus:
• Exposure to diverse array of technologies
• Competitive compensation
• Robust benefits package: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k, and PTO
• Positive, friendly, supportive team environment
• Workplace perks such as wellness program and fun events
• Salary:
• 120K-140K