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2098 - Project Manager - Denver, CO

Work for a Minneapolis based company in their Denver Colorado Office.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successful delivery of a highly complex projects:
  • Define project goals/objectives
  • Oversee quality control throughout project lifecycle.
  • Create and review of project plans and charter documents including definition, scope, resources, budget and schedule.
• Draft and submit budget proposals and track and report against established budget, recommending subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Develop and document status reports, proposals, requirements documents and presentations.
• Communicate and continually manage project expectations with team members and stakeholders.
• Monitor project(s) to assure compliance to overall project plan, prioritize projects and tasks, and manage activities and resources to successful completion.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members (including vendors and contractors/ consultants). Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members to ensure assignments meet the Company standards and are completed on schedule.
• Develop communication plans and ensure adequate communication is maintained between team members, departments and stakeholders regarding project status, progress and priorities.
• Identify project risks and issues and resolve in a timely manner.
• Coordinate departmental support to resolve project shortcomings and/or take appropriate action when variances occur.
• Work with technology users, IT leadership and other stakeholders to determine business objectives, feasibility and cost benefit of project requests. Assist in the documentation, evaluation and prioritization of project requests.
• Build, develop, and grow relationships with technology users and other stakeholders.
• Strict adherence to established support and service management policies and procedures (i.e. incident, change, problem, SDLC, etc.) thereby ensuring all activities are fully documented for auditing and future support purposes.
• Keep abreast of developments and best practices in the information technology field. Maintain the knowledge necessary to support department goals and programs, and retain professional competence.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Project management and facilitation skills.
• Self-starter with ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with strong planning, organizational and analytical skills.
• Communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are essential, including the ability to articulate risks and issues and accurately analyze problems, explain solutions and present technical material to end users in a non-technical manner.
• Skilled in working with cross-functional teams to affect collaboration, resolution of issues and community building across multiple functions.
• Strong and confident presence and experience to work credibly with and influence colleagues, managers, senior level sponsors and executives.
• Curiosity and passion for delivering high quality technical solutions.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science or a related field preferred.
• 10+ years of technology experience including requirements management, analysis and design required.
• 7+ years of project management experience (full project life cycle management) related to business software or system integration projects (packaged and custom developed) required.
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile required.
• Demonstrated record of leadership, management, and technical success in Information Technology required.
• Experience working in a business/IT capacity for a company with restaurant and/or retail operations a plus.
• Project delivery success on collaborative efforts working with outside vendors and other business partners required.