Job Description
Position: Sr Strategic Project Manager
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Duration: 9 months
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Location: Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
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Hourly Rate : $55/hr - $63/hr on W2 OR $60/hr - $70/hr C2C
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Open for C2C or W2
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IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
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The ideal candidate is a seasoned Technology Project Manager whose strengths include business analysis, project initiation, planning, and mobilization. This individual is skilled at working through ambiguity, defining business needs, facilitating stakeholder alignment, developing business cases, assessing solution options, identifying resource requirements, and preparing initiatives for approval and delivery.
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The candidate must also be a well-rounded project delivery leader with experience managing complex technology projects through execution, implementation, operational transition, and closeout. The individual should be comfortable moving between front-end analytical work and hands-on project delivery as program priorities evolve.
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JOB SUMMARY
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Responsible for the successful initiation, planning, development, administration, risk management, implementation, control, and closure of one or more large, complex technology projects across multiple business units through the Program and Project Management department.
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This position will initially emphasize the front-end activities needed to translate business needs and strategic priorities into well-defined, executable projects. These activities may include business analysis, requirements discovery, business case development, solution evaluation, stakeholder alignment, governance preparation, resource planning, and project mobilization.
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The successful candidate must also have demonstrated experience managing technology projects through execution, implementation, transition, and closeout. Based on program priorities and business needs, this individual may be assigned to lead approved projects through the full project lifecycle. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and project startup capabilities with the project management experience necessary to successfully deliver complex business and technology solutions.
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SUPERVISION
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Performs work under the direct supervision of a manager or director.
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QUALIFICATIONS
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The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform this position.
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Education
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• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
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Certification
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• Project Management Professional certification required.
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Required Experience
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• Five or more years of project management experience managing medium-to-large, complex projects.
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• Demonstrated experience managing technology, software implementation, enterprise application, or technology-enabled business projects.
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• Demonstrated experience leading projects through initiation, planning, execution, implementation, transition, and closeout.
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• Experience working with cross-functional teams that include business, technology, project management, vendor, and operational stakeholders.
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Preferred Experience
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• Experience performing or leading business analysis, requirements discovery, business case development, feasibility assessment, solution evaluation, or project initiation activities.
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• Experience establishing new projects through chartering, resource planning, governance preparation, scheduling, risk assessment, and mobilization.
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• Experience developing executive-level recommendations, decision materials, project status reports, and presentations.
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• Experience supporting enterprise work and asset management, utility operations, ERP, EAM, or other large-scale business and technology initiatives.
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• Experience managing vendor-delivered solutions, contracts, Requests for Proposals, and third-party project resources.
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• Experience working in a matrixed environment in which project resources report to multiple business or functional areas.
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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
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• Strong business analysis skills, including the ability to identify business needs, facilitate requirements discussions, assess alternatives, and translate strategic objectives into executable initiatives.
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• Strong project initiation, planning, and mobilization skills, with the ability to establish the foundation necessary for successful project delivery.
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• Ability to transition effectively between strategic analysis, front-end project development, detailed planning, and hands-on project execution.
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• Ability to analyze and solve moderately complex business, technology, resource, and project delivery problems and implement effective solutions.
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• Ability to organize large and complex project plans and maintain complete, accurate, and effective project documentation.
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• Demonstrated ability to plan and carry out responsibilities with a minimum of direction.
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• Demonstrated leadership, facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and team-building skills.
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• Ability to establish and apply meaningful performance measures, success criteria, and project controls.
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• Ability to manage competing priorities, ambiguity, dependencies, resource constraints, risks, and changing business needs.
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• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex business and technology information clearly to project teams, business leaders, technology leaders, governance groups, and executive stakeholders.
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• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
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• Ability to build alignment and influence outcomes across business and technology organizations without relying on direct authority.
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• Working knowledge of project financial management, vendor management, governance, organizational change management, and operational readiness practices.
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• Demonstrated ability to use business productivity and project management software, including email, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, collaboration, scheduling, and project reporting tools.
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• Ability to work effectively in a diverse and matrixed work environment.
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