Part-Time Senior Project Manager (Vendor Side)

Senior Project Manager

$50-70/hour

100% Remote

~24 hours/week

Flexible hours- Must be available for support of Australia projects. Project meetings are scheduled at 10 pm EST / 7 pm PDT.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage European and Asia/Pacific projects.
• Vendor Side Project Management
• Guide adoption of company's Project Management Framework through its application to departmental changes.
• Manage and mitigate operational, technical and financial risks.
• Maintain contact with clients and parties involves through email and phone calls, answer questions and concerns, prepare presentations, and enter project data.
• Communicate with, and organize training to all levels of the organization, including executive audiences on new processes.
• Manage, defuse, and resolve in-project issues, escalations and crises.
• Develop detailed plans for each project, including the delivery and resourcing schedule.
• Collaborate with various teams and hold meetings to develop project plans and present them to upper-level management throughout the project’s lifecycle – from initiation to close out.
• Closely monitor each project to ensure that projects remain on track, meet deadlines, stay under client’s budget, and deliver according to plan.
• Responsible for gathering and documenting all project results and then reporting or presenting them to the appropriate stakeholders (both internally and externally).
• Manage and report on the financial health and profitability of each project. Meet minimum gross margin hurdle rates.
• Report on the success of the project and any setbacks that were encountered or room for improvement (Lessons Learned).

Qualifications/Skills

• Formal Project Management Certification required
• MUST have vendor implementation experience
• Ability to manage multiple projects across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Articulate English skills – written and verbal (concise, pertinent, grammatically correct language).
• Ability to easily adapt to fast changing circumstances (i.e., project parameters may change weekly or fortnightly).
• Ability to negotiate change requests and justify client budget revisions.
• Ability to manage and reset stakeholder expectations.
• Knowing various project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid)
• Demonstrating proficiency to present with PowerPoint and use various Microsoft Office tools like Excel, Word, Outlook and Visio.
• Learn and apply Project Management methodology

You must have these professional traits:

• Capable of working independently
• Working within demanding timelines on multiple tasks/tickets simultaneously.
• A quick learner with the ability to acquire new domain knowledge, self-guided learning capability
• Comfortable reading through business requirement documents, functional specifications, technical specifications, and attending online briefing sessions with stakeholders
• Not afraid to ask questions or seek assistance
• Willing to challenge management & design decisions
• Natural willingness to share information and provide visibility among team members
• Willingness to accommodate overseas time zones depending on project geographies (e.g., EU and/or Australia, Asia Pac.)
• Proven history of working with client’s end-users and technical users.

Benefits/Perks

This is a part-time, remote, work-from-almost-anywhere role.

Flexible scheduling (Driven by customer commitments)