The Role: This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic project management team at ION. As a senior project manager, you will oversee the execution and completion of information technology solutions projects in the professional services arena. Provides budget analysis, labor planning, and coordination of activities between client and company personnel. Monitors project completion from initiation through delivery to meet revenue and cost projections. Oversees performance of the delivery, installation and client acceptance of capitalized equipment, enterprise software systems, or system integration projects or engagements. Typically utilizes management skills more than technical skills. Serves as mediator to internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing solutions to clients. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. Key Responsibilities:

Provide leadership of multi-disciplinary professionals in a project structure in the scoping/discovery workshop, design, configuration, testing, and production support of the ION solution for the client’s business needs

Provide direct management of all ION resources assigned to project and act as personnel supervisor for HR issues during the assignment

Serve as the client’s principal point of contact for project status, solution quality, scope control, issues, risks, billing, personnel management, and the ION solution

Present to C-level executives for complex engagements and projects

Manage project Profit and Loss, including effective project cost and revenue budgeting, analysis and forecasting

Manage project change control

Plan, lead, manage, and coordinate ION’s project tasks using Microsoft Project Plan, resources, deliverables, issues logs, risks logs, weekly timesheets, project expense reports, monthly invoices, and all other administrative documentation on an ongoing basis

Determine the optimal utilization of resources at a task and personnel level

Keep the client management and ION management informed daily regarding all project issues, risks, and delays

Actively engage project stakeholders and manage client expectations regarding the delivery of the ION solution

Actively coordinate the participation of client users through the client project manager to ensure project success

Provide weekly project status reports to the client project manager, project steering committee, and ION management, including all information necessary to track the status of the project against the project plan

Coordinate and attend project and steering committee meetings

Manage the release to client of software updates and license keys

Prepare, present to client, and obtain signoff of Request for Support Services, acceptance documentation, and final project acceptance

Maximize chargeability on one or more client accounts simultaneously

Serve as mentors and role models for the consulting staff

Enhance, publish, and train staff regarding implementation best practices

Coordinate and conduct employee performance appraisals for personnel assigned to projects throughout the calendar year

Provide sales support through project plan development, estimation, and document authoring for RFP/RFI responses, sales proposals, and Statements of Work to meet the client’s desired business requirements

Travel up to 50% of the time.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

10+ years of project management software implementation, consulting, or systems integration

Experience in the Energy, Commodities, Treasury, Banking or financial services industries preferred

Excellent client-facing skills, experience presenting to C-level executives.

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Ability to work onsite at client locations as needed

Proven leadership skills with teams of five or more professionals

Prior hands-on experience with structured project management

Willingness to travel, potentially up to 50% of time.

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, engineering, economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field.

Project Management Institute PMP certification preferred