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Project Manager
Summary:
Project Manager will be responsible for managing national enterprise projects. The Project Manager plans, schedules and controls project activities related to successful enterprise implementations applying technical and managerial skills to satisfy project requirements, while building positive professional relationships with customers and team. In addition to having strong Project management skills, candidates should be experienced managing large-scale projects while maintaining budget guidelines and must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a project liaison between the customer and Astea.
- Create and update project documentation, including development of project plans specifying goals, strategy, matrix staffing, scheduling, and identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources.
- Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget while providing leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle.
- Participates in the hiring process and training of new hires.
- Ability to manage and oversee vendor/contractor relationships including third party implementation teams.
- Prepare a variety of weekly, periodic and ad hoc reports for senior management, key project stakeholders and business groups and distribute project related data/documentation as appropriate including; project status reports, vendor information, and requirements documents.
- Manage project issues, decisions and risks, including escalation to sponsors.
Other Qualifications Desired:
- Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in business, MIS, software engineering, computer science or related field.
- Business experience consulting with ERP, CRM, Supply Chain solutions and/or applications development background is desirable. * 5+ years project management experience working with large and small external clients
- Ability to foster strong working relationships between project teams, user communities, management and vendors
- Ability to manage multiple project plans concurrently and prioritize tasks appropriately under changing conditions
- Excellent organizational and communication skills with a commitment to meeting deadlines and expectations while ensuring overall quality of delivery
- Confidence in preparing and delivering presentations to small and large groups.
- Proficient with MS/Project.
- Familiarity with Microsoft implementation environments is ideal, including experience with web based software solutions and databases (SQL, Oracle). Experience with Mobile technologies is a plus.
If you are interested in any of Astea's positions please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to Jan Schubert careers@astea.com.
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