Project Manager - Boston, MA & Smithfield, RI

Position ID: NAL-13-26
Type: Contract
Duration: 1 year

Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Interact with many groups within business units, support organizations, and external partners including all levels of management, staff, business unit sponsors.
• Manage vendor to meet project deliverables and service level expectations.
• Manage project decisions to maintain positive impact on business profitability and reputation.
• Maintain strategic focus and direction for all project development initiatives.
• Define and implement an appropriate project structure for complex projects.
• Form and manage a cross-function project team made up of individuals from different business units and companies that will best serve the needs of the project.
• Execute well defined project analysis including cost benefit, feasibility studies and problem definition analysis.
• Analyze and document current work flows and identify and recommend process improvements.
• Define information systems and/or process solutions to address business needs.
• Analyze and drive the documentation of business requirements.
• Take primary responsibility for executing significant portions of the complex project work.
• Monitor and resolve project interdependencies.
• Provide comprehensive consultation to business unit, and systems management at every technical/business level on all phases of the project development cycle.
• Highlight activities/issues/risks needing management involvement.

KEY COMPETENCIES:
• Ability to communicate with and influence business partners and stakeholders.
• Effectively acts in a support role to internal clients, as well as operate in a lead role.
• Ability to transact with multiple levels of management.
• Ability to work effectively with client, end users, systems management, and staff
• Possess the ability to foster good working relationships with team members, business sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Possesses demonstrated effectiveness for managing resources directly or indirectly.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to execute well defined project analysis including cost benefit.
• Effective conflict resolution and change management skills. Demonstrates strong judgment, issues management and problem resolution techniques.
• Strong influencer. Ability to understand perspectives of others and work through conflict to identify a solution.
• Viewed as business knowledge expert and key advisor on project/program.
• Strong project management and decision making skills. Keeps a project on track in terms of scope, budget and delivery date.
• Good leadership/teambuilding capabilities. Builds trust and commitment of team to reach a common goal.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
• Proven experience managing medium & complex projects.
• Possess an in-depth understanding of business and systems as well as financial services industry knowledge.
• Capable of managing multiple initiatives.
• Strong understanding and utilization of Project Life Cycle methodology.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills (clear, accurate and timely).
• Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good leadership/teambuilding capabilities.
• In-depth knowledge of business unit’s functions and applications

Interested candidates can send resumes to smarappan@nallas.com