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Title: Project Manager
Department: Consulting Services
Reports to: Consulting Director
Overall Purpose:
SolutionSet Practice is looking for a top-notch Project Manager to join our team. You are an ordered person who likes the challenge of reigning in chaotic projects as much as you like proactively and methodologically executing projects. You will manage the design and implementation of Web solutions for our clients, delivering premier, creative, complex, high-volume, high-visibility, enterprise-scale websites and web-based applications. You will own all internal project responsibility as well as interact directly with clients.
We'd like to meet you if you can:
- Run multiple projects and clients with graceful ease
- Appreciate the nuances of chaos and order and know how to balance them
- Understand how design and technology can co-operate to create more than a sum of parts
- Collaborate professionally with fuzzy logic devices (people)
- Respect deadlines and the value of achieved commitments
Key Areas of Responsibility:
Your Primary responsibility is to own the project, manage the project and ensure that all deliverables are met on time and budget. Furthermore, you will be expected to manage the day-to-day client relationship for your Account Director or Client Partner. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Works closely with the internal teams and the client to plan and develop individual project plan, deliverables, timelines, detailing out specific critical paths
- Is responsible for the delivery of all documents including creative briefs, requirements docs, design specifications, technical specifications, wireframes, site maps, DB Schemas and Systems architectures
- Drives the project team to meet the timelines as agreed upon, maintaining the critical path
- Effectively negotiates issues that may arise through the project lifecycle to maintain the project integrity and schedule
- Escalates issues to Account Team or Client Partner that cannot be resolved within the project team that ultimately impact the schedule and/or project deliverables
- Holds regular team meetings to manage schedule, obtain updates, discuss issues and resolve problems with the project. Updates project schedules on a weekly basis and communicates changes to project team members and Account Team or Client Partner
- Communicates major milestones, priorities, bottlenecks and other major problems, which affect a successful delivery
- Prepares Client documentation to include: Requirements Documents, Specifications, Status Reports, Change Orders, Client Approval Documents and Statements of Work.
- Ensures that project teams input hours, runs Weekly Reports on Project Burn and presents reports to Account Team or Client Partner
Qualifications:
The candidate must have proven ability and qualifications in the following areas:
- 1 - 3 years web knowledge/experience
- 1 - 3 years web project management experience involving successful development and deployment (full life cycle) of consumer and business oriented websites and / or web based applications
- Experience in Creative Agencies or Professional Services a plus
- Maturity and experience necessary to work with clients at various levels of the organization, especially Clients, Development and Creative Teams
- Excellent project management fundamentals, including project planning and scheduling (PERT/GANTT), risk management, and project reporting required.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills required; able to drive decisions and forward progress in the face of obstacles
- Excellent matrix management, team building and motivation skills required; able to effectively work with many different personalities to build a cohesive team
- Working knowledge of web technologies (HTML / CSS / JS / XSL / Flash / SQL technologies / Web Services)
- Having coded one of these on a commercial site desired
- Must understand basics to be able to follow projects
- Must be able to understand database concepts at a high-level
- Must be able to explain the difference between JavaScript and AJAX
- Must be able to articulate Flash / Flex features and uses
- Must be able to talk about Web Services, XML, XSL (server and client side), etc.
- Knowledge of hosting environments
- Must be able to understand and explain at a high-level the differences between PHP, .Net, Java, Classic ASP, Cold Fusion
- Must be able to understand the pros / cons of .Net vs. UNIX vs. LAMP environments
- Must be able to understand the choices of dedicated vs. shared hosting environments
- Must be able to understand details such as: DNS records, MX records, IP addresses
- Must understand and be able to articulate https vs. http and where it's used / what steps are needed
- High-level understanding of SolutionSet technologies / projects and select examples of projects
- CSP architecture and projects
- Web Development projects and examples
- Marketing / SEO / SEM examples
- Branding and Creative services examples
- Proven ability to juggle multiple projects and priorities.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and deliver on time results; grace under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal, writing and communication skills.
- High-level proficiency in Microsoft Office 2003+, Visio and Microsoft Project
- Bachelor's degree or 5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
Please have good examples of your previous work to show while explaining the details involved in their production. Send resume in Text-only or PDF and URLs of work you have done.
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