IT Project Manager

Masis Staffing Solutions; Springfield (MA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Part time

Job summary

Masis Staffing Solutions is seeking an IT Project Manager for a remote contract position with a major financial company. You will drive improvements across IT testing environments, data, and processes to speed time-to-market and improve code quality.

Responsibilities include leading cross-functional initiatives, developing project plans, facilitating stakeholder sessions, tracking risks and deliverables, and creating dashboards and executive updates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management, process improvement, operations, business transformation, or related experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Proven ability to manage project plans, action registers, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience creating executive-level reporting and status communications.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements across IT in test environments, test data, and testing processes to support faster speed to market and higher quality code delivery.
• Lead and coordinate process improvement initiatives from planning through implementation and stabilization.
• Develop and maintain project plans, action trackers, timelines, milestones, and implementation roadmaps.
• Facilitate working sessions, stakeholder meetings, and status reviews to drive alignment, decisions, and progress.
• Monitor and track tasks, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and commitments across multiple teams.
• Hold stakeholders accountable for assigned actions and ensure timely completion of agreed-upon deliverables.
• Identify execution risks, bottlenecks, and delays, and proactively drive resolution to keep initiatives on track.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and governance processes to support successful delivery.
• Create and maintain project dashboards, status reporting, metrics, and executive communications.
• Partner with business and operational leaders to document current-state processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement future-state solutions.
• Drive process standardization, operational efficiency, continuous improvement, and adoption of best practices.
• Support organizational change management, stakeholder communications, training, and readiness activities.
• Measure and report on process improvement outcomes, implementation progress, and realized business benefits.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

IT Project Manager - REMOTE
Major Financial Company
Contract Position

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Drive improvements across IT in test environments, test data, and testing processes to support faster speed to market and higher quality code delivery
• Lead and coordinate process improvement initiatives from planning through implementation and stabilization.
• Develop and maintain project plans, action trackers, timelines, milestones, and implementation roadmaps.
• Facilitate working sessions, stakeholder meetings, and status reviews to drive alignment, decisions, and progress.
• Monitor and track tasks, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and commitments across multiple teams.
• Hold stakeholders accountable for assigned actions and ensure timely completion of agreed-upon deliverables.
• Identify execution risks, bottlenecks, and delays, and proactively drive resolution to keep initiatives on track.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and governance processes to support successful delivery.
• Create and maintain project dashboards, status reporting, metrics, and executive communications.
• Partner with business and operational leaders to document current-state processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement future-state solutions.
• Drive process standardization, operational efficiency, continuous improvement, and adoption of best practices.
• Support organizational change management, stakeholder communications, training, and readiness activities.
• Measure and report on process improvement outcomes, implementation progress, and realized business benefits.
• Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management, process improvement, operations, business transformation, or related experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Proven ability to manage project plans, action registers, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience creating executive-level reporting and status communications.

The Ideal Qualifications

• PMP, CAPM, Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, or equivalent certification.
• Experience leading operational excellence, process improvement, or business transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to drive accountability and results in a matrixed environment without direct authority.
• Experience utilizing project management and reporting tools to track execution and performance.
• Financial Services, Insurance, Operations, or Technology industry experience.

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