Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KMM Technologies, Inc. is offering a consulting opportunity for a Senior SAS Project Manager. The role is responsible for directing, planning, budgeting, coordinating, implementing, executing, and completing SAS projects for state contracts while ensuring alignment with organizational goals. The position also manages customer relationships, project risks, resources, schedules, quality assurance, and project closure activities.
Responsibilities
- Assumes fiscal responsibility for the portions of the projects managed, including managing budget, expense management, timely invoicing, receivables tracking and monitoring/managing subcontractor expenses, as applicable
- Identifies, documents, and escalates any project issues and potential dependencies to the project team and to the appropriate management team
- Manages assigned projects against key business targets and time-to-value key performance indicators to help ensure high quality and high customer satisfaction
- Prepares sample or high-level project plans to satisfy customer requirements to close deals, identify potential implementation options and provide recommendations on implementation approaches
- Participates and leads in project review sessions with stakeholders, customers, and senior management
- Completes risk assessment documents for projects, meeting articulated criteria (sizeable financial concerns, heavy use of subcontractors, implementation of new solutions, etc.)
- May support Senior Project Managers or Program Managers on large projects and may independently manage small to medium scale projects
- Manages internal or external customer expectations fully and acts as customer liaison
- Manages implementation projects throughout the project life cycle
- Monitors performance and recommends schedule changes, cost adjustments and resource additions
- Identifies and matches skills of project team members with the implementation requirements and tasks, including subcontractors if required, and verifies that team members know and understand their assignments
- Ensures quality assurance and test plans are developed for the project
- Maintains an accurate project plan, adheres to deadlines and communicates weekly project status reports, issues, alerts, signoffs and closure to the team, management and the customer
- Forecasts revenue and resource requirements for the duration of the project
- Follows established change management procedures should project plans or schedules be adjusted
- Ensures project designs and specifications provide a reliable blueprint for implementation
- Resolves any conflict between the project and other organizational units in a satisfactory manner, including engaging management as necessary
- Communicates project goals to those outside the project and engages management or leadership in other units as needed to ensure customer success
- Completes engagement/project summary, project closeout procedures and skills inventory updates, when applicable, at end of project
- Assures overall customer satisfaction through project health checks, surveys and Delivery Excellence agreements according to the governing Project Management Methodology
- Leverages methodologies, enablers and best practices to accelerate project delivery
- Oversees knowledge management activities of the delivery team using knowledge server or comparable tool
- Builds relationships with clients that characterize partnership, cooperation and trust
- Provides leadership and drives customer success while overcoming barriers and satisfying staff, management, and stakeholder commitments
- Performs other duties, as assigned
Skills
- US Citizen or Green Card
- Has to be able to clear Federal Government background check
- PMP certification required
- Project Management Professional, known as PMP, certification is required
- Jira or the like
- Experience with Project documentation (Charters, RACI, Design docs, etc)
- Excellent facilitation skills, including meeting content/agenda and proactive/creative management of issues
- Very good domain and industry expertise as well as an understanding of SAS internal processes and organization
- Very good problem-solving, organizational, written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- A minimum of 10 years of customer project management experience
- Local candidates to Raleigh, NC area are preferred
- State and Local Government PM experience preferred
- MS Project experience is preferred
- State and Local Government experience
- Raleigh, NC location preferred, but flexible on location for the right candidate
Benefits
- Remote work is an option for the right candidate.
- The job is 100% remote, with candidates in North Carolina, specifically the Raleigh area, preferred.
- The duration is 6 months with a possibility of extension.
- Very good chance of getting extended or hired.
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