Project Manager

Arbor Research; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 92,000 - 149,500; Full time

Job summary

Arbor Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan is seeking a Project Manager to lead innovative projects within a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate should possess a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, along with a Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience. Responsibilities include managing contracts, updating project schedules, and ensuring compelling stakeholder engagement.

This role offers a competitive annual salary range of $92,000 - $149,500, alongside various professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification maintained throughout the engagement.
• Experience managing a formal software development lifecycle process.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of the contract across task areas.
• Develop and maintain project management artifacts.
• Lead risk management and change management processes.

Skills

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Agile methodologies

Excellent organizational and planning skills

Verbal and written communication skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's degree with five years of project management experience

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Microsoft Project

Job description

Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of the contract across concurrent task areas, directing a multidisciplinary team of analysts and specialists toward scope, schedule, and budget objectives.
• Develop, baseline, and maintain project management artifacts, including the project management plan, concept of operations, team charter, work breakdown structure dictionary, and the schedule, communication, change, risk, knowledge, and quality management plans.
• Maintain the integrated project schedule, update it on a weekly basis, and flag issues and concerns to project leadership.
• Lead risk management by conducting risk reviews, facilitating risk identification with stakeholder groups, maintaining a risk register with qualitative and quantitative analysis, and tracking each risk to closure.
• Lead change management by tracking the submission, evaluation, and implementation of changes to project baselines or systems using approved collaboration tools.
• Produce weekly status reports, monthly status reports, and materials for executive and leadership meetings, and follow up on action items and requests.
• Direct overall stakeholder engagement and communication, coordinating work with client components, Federal partners, and other designated contractors.
• Create project work plans and task-based resource estimates, monitor milestone accomplishment, and balance competing demands for shared resources.
• Support transition-in and transition-out activities, including knowledge transfer sessions, artifact handoff, and transition progress reporting.
• Experience working within Medicare systems at CMS, especially enrollment and beneficiary database operations is desirable.

Supervision Received

General administrative supervision is received from the assigned Program Director. Close collaboration is expected with information systems leadership, functional managers, client and partner stakeholders, and members of the project team.

Supervision Exercised

Direct and indirect supervision of the multidisciplinary project team, including analysts and specialists assigned to the contract.

Required Qualifications

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through the Project Management Institute, maintained throughout the engagement.
• Bachelor’s degree with at least five (5) years of project management experience managing a multidisciplinary project team, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing a formal software development lifecycle process and familiarity with agile methodologies.
• Experience in the direct and indirect management of multidisciplinary teams working toward complex goals, with adeptness at creating a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, including productive use of project management technology.
• Ability to understand difficult technical concepts and to communicate, orally and in writing, with a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Federal public trust suitability determination, and U.S. work authorization sufficient to meet E-Verify requirements.

Desirable Qualifications

• Non-profit experience.
• Experience supporting Federal health programs or agencies.
• Familiarity with Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC), System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and ITIL governance frameworks.
• Experience managing cross-agency or interagency coordination efforts.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project.

Annual Salary Range

$92,000 - $149,500 (US National Average)

Base Compensation Determination

Base Compensation is determined by market range and geographic location pay zones. Base Compensation also includes various individual factors unique to each candidate such as job level, prior experience, skill set, certification and educational which may impact the compensation structure.

This position is classified as exempt according to FLSA guidelines.