*Project Manager at OWINGS MILLS, Maryland* PLEASE SEND MATCHING RESUMES TO [email protected] OR [email protected]
Project Manager OWINGS MILLS, Maryland Job Description: Responsibilities: * Manages projects, develops and directs technical project teams through all phases and activities of the project life-cycle process associated with major information technology systems projects that are essential to departmental missions and affect CareFirst operations on a long-term and continuing basis. * Determines Project goals and priorities with management, program manager and/or project sponsors. * Supports requirements of the enterprise program manager to provide necessary information and support for successful program delivery. * Creates all project planning documentation and follows all CareFirst Defined processes. * Manages and communicates a clear vision of the projects objectives, and motivate the cross functional project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by the entire team. * Establish and publish clear priorities among project activities. Coordinates team activities to meet project milestones. * Directs/leads project teams comprised of subject matter experts, technical specialists, and support staff to produce a business plan in accordance with the strategic plan, operating budget, capital planning procedures and agency guidance. * Prepares, implements, monitors, and updates the project plan. Coordinates with the business owner and upper level management to ensure the actions are consistent with the approved plan. * Identifies standards or requirements for change management. Participates in change control (for example, reviewing configuration change requests). * Develops or implements information systems security and entitlement requirements and plans; and ensures appropriate product-related training and documentation are developed and made available to customers. * *Manages resource assignment and tracking to the project plan and project schedule in coordination with the line of business resource managers. *Negotiate the performance of activities with team members and their managers in a matrix environment. *Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables; mentor others in project management practices; review quality of work and manage the integration of team members work. Manages the Project Budget with overall budget accountability for up to $4 million per year. * Collaborates with the finance department and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled; provides overall financial recommendations, and develop controls and measurements to monitor progress. * Provides Finance with monthly accruals and forecasts by the due date established by Finance using the tools developed by Finance. *Maintains current statements of work for all contractors; track and approve contractor invoices in a timely manner. * Provides regular updates to project sponsor and stakeholders on the status of the budget. * Documents reasons for budget excess or shortfall. * Manages project budgets for both expense and capital against the original project budget. * Creates Executive Summaries for all contractor resources required to complete a project. Requirements: * This position requires a four-year degree in CIS/MIS or equivalent experience of 3 - 5 years of related IT project management experience in a large scale, cross functional, multi-system environment. Out of the 3 - 5 years required, at least 2 years in a combination of the following: * Progressive broad-based information systems Project Management experience (which could include consulting) with state-of-the-art hardware and software systems is desirable; knowledge and implementation experience in new computing architectures and networked computing structures. * Experience in execution of mu Thanks & Regards Shailesh Swarky Solutions, MN [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Companies Looking for IT Out Staffing & Recruitment" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/arunsinh. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
