IT Project Coordinator

Mindlance; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A national recruiting company is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project coordination and administration. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree and at least two years of experience in project management or coordination. Key responsibilities include leading project planning, monitoring, and team communication. Proficiency in MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel is required, along with experience in User Acceptance Testing. This role offers the opportunity to work within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience demonstrating learning agility.
• Minimum experience of at least two years in project management or coordination.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and monitoring efforts.
• Ensure effective project follow-up from start to end.
• Facilitate communication among project stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Teamwork

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Project

PowerPoint

Excel

Hyperion

SAP

Job description

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers across the country. Feel free to check us out at http://www.mindlance.com. Its a simple route driver job and company will be providing the car.

Job Description

Duration: 10+ Months

Location: Research Triangle Park, NC

Job Description: Run the programme and project administration for the defined programme/project. The role entails leading on the coordination of project planning, project monitoring and control, risk management and governance in a consistent manner. Projects must adhere to both principles of transparency across the programmes and enable comparability.

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience demonstrating learning agility.
• Minimum experience: at least two years of project management or project coordination. At least two years participating in or preferably managing the coordination of User Acceptance Testing.
• IT: MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Preferred qualifications:

• Project management qualification (e.g. PMP, Prince 2) or equivalent proven track record of delivery.
• Project management skills and aptitude coupling both hard and soft skills.
• Project experience should ideally include design, planning, governance, phasing and implementation of projects tools and techniques for issues and risk management, decision making and reporting.
• Hyperion and SAP financial systems.
• Engaging with senior management.
• Managing multinational cross-functional workstreams in a complex matrix.
• Aptitude or experience to teach and coach project management to stakeholders.
• Well-developed soft skills such as influencing, leading without authority and problem solving.
• Experence in planning and executing User Acceptance Testing.
• IT Business Analysis and Process Partnering.
• Pharma.

Personal Skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Willing and able to work at all levels of the organization: across teams and management
• Able to work with minimum supervision (autonomous)
• Teamwork, both in a hierarchical and matrix level
• Analytical spirit
• Perseverant and resilient

Job Purpose and Key Responsibilities :

• Realize schedules with experts and project actors
• Ensure project follow-up from start to end: planning & reporting
• Lead, support and facilitate projects within the business unit
• Ensure a monthly reporting of projects
• Contribute actively to the realization of a project portfolio
• Develop and enhance a culture of excellence to do things in a simpler, leaner, faster and robust way
• Anticipates problems and escalates the blocking points to the hierarchy
• Ensure a good communication on the projects with all the actors

Qualifications

Basic qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience demonstrating learning agility. Minimum experience: at least two years of project management or project coordination. At least two years participating in or preferably managing the coordination of User Acceptance Testing. IT: MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Preferred qualifications: Project management qualification (e.g. PMP, Prince 2) or equivalent proven track record of delivery. Project management skills and aptitude coupling both hard and soft skills. Project experience should ideally include design, planning, governance, phasing and implementation of projects tools and techniques for issues and risk management, decision making and reporting. Hyperion and SAP financial systems. Engaging with senior management. Managing multinational cross-functional workstreams in a complex matrix. Aptitude or experience to teach and coach project management to stakeholders. Well-developed soft skills such as influencing, leading without authority and problem solving. Experence in planning and executing User Acceptance Testing. IT Business Analysis and Process Partnering. Pharma.

Additional Information

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