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Job Title: Senior Project Manager(Infra/Network)

Location: Purchase, NY [Day-1 Onsite]

Duration: Long term Contract

We are looking for overall 15+ years in PM need strong infra/network domain

Soft Skills

1. Strong leadership skills
2. Have Excellent Experience in IT Infrastructure & Networking.
3. Excellent customer service with ability to manager
4. customer expectations
5. Excellent communicator with strong verbal and written skills
6. Ability to easily adapt to different communication and working styles
7. Active listener
8. Excellent organizational skills
9. Self-starter and quick learner
10. Proven ability to set priorities across multiple projects and drive for results
11. Good attention to details
12. Strong time management skills
13. Excellent facilitation and collaboration skills
14. Work effectively with internal and external clients, third party vendors, and senior management in accomplishing project objectives
15. Exercise judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to develop corporate methods, techniques
16. Evaluate complex situations accurately and identifies viable solutions that create successful outcomes for the customer
17. In depth knowledge of how to navigate through matrixed organizations to engage teams and get work done
18. Can establish and maintain effective relationships with business and IT customers to gain their trust and respect
19. Ability to communicate effectively with senior IT and business leaders

Experience

1. In depth understanding of project terminology and methodology
2. 7+ years of experience managing multiple projects and project teams
3. Ability to lead multi-function project team through influencing skills
4. In depth Risk / Issue / Change Management knowledge
5. Developing executive level PowerPoint presentations
6. Expert skill using Microsoft Project to drive project execution and manage to critical path
7. Experience in managing constrained schedules and resources in a rapidly evolving environment
8. Ability to understand interdependencies and can connect the dots on how one part of a project impacts another
9. Hosting meetings, taking meeting notes, and documenting action items
10. Tracking action items and working with owners to obtain status
11. Ability to organize complex and/or ambiguous information for project sponsor
12. Organizing project goals / objectives into major streams of work with specific deliverables
13. Initiate / launch project(s) to effectively manage deliverables
14. Work on complex problems where analysis of situation or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors to achieve best results
15. Work closely with the Program Sponsor and Operating Committee to facilitate decisions necessary for delivery
16. Oversee effective project reviews to effect project success
17. Develop and maintain lessons-learned inputs to the project repository for utilization on future projects

Interactions

1. Global implementation effort with multiple Medium to Large Complex projects being managed will typically have:
   1. Individual team members from 5-7 cross functional teams and business sectors
   2. 2-4 Service providers needed to delivery key portions of the solution, which will include infrastructure, applications, and several interdisciplinary teams to support execution
   3. Serves as the leader of a multi-person project management team
   4. Joint project sponsors which requires project manager to gain consensus and set expectations
   5. Global business customers impacted by project delivery involving multiple sector geographies
2. Directs global project team activities by influencing cross functional team members without direct line of authority (daily)
3. Effective communication with project sponsor, Manager / Director, in customer organization (weekly)
4. Status presentation and Stage Gate approval meeting with Directors and Sr Directors (Monthly)
5. Sector business associates involved in project delivery (as needed)
6. IT Services Suppliers coordination to deliver needed IT Services required for project delivery
7. Works with EPMO Governance Analyst to align on key project artifacts and gains alignment on project governance

Schedule, budget and scope constraints that cause pressure on delivery