Project Manager II

Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).

Job description:

• Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework.
• Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor.
• Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics
• Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities.
• Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.
• Creates and implements a communication plan.
• Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes.
• Negotiates resources.
• Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor.
• Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers.
• Provides technical support to project team members.
• Handles complex application features and technical designs.
• Designs and implements the components required for complex application features.
• Generally, manages a group of applications systems analysts.
• Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Professional certification is highly desirable.
• Project Manager capabilities with 5-10 years of experience.
• Capable of managing a project or subset of a project with up to ten (10) staff.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience in IT project management.
• Minimum 5 years experience with IT project support.
• Minimum 5 years experience using written and verbal communication skills in project management/project support setting.