Project Manager

Kyler Professional Search; Canonsburg (Washington County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyler Professional Search in the United States seeks an experienced Project Manager to drive delivery of client solutions, align projects with strategic objectives, and lead cross-functional teams.

This role emphasizes stakeholder and relationship management, scope control, and value realization through change management and continued process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in project management.
• PMP certification is a strong plus.
• Ability to manage customer expectations in line with work priorities.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-management skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• High level of presentation/persuasive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans including estimation of resources and timeframes, scheduling, budgeting, dependency management and change planning.
• Manage delivery according to approved plans, objectives and budgets; document progress.
• Stakeholder management through active involvement and regular communications.
• Provide project status reporting including milestones, issues and risks, and budget vs. actuals.
• Manage issues and risks with logging, assessment and treatment strategies.
• Handle scope changes through defined change-management processes.
• Align projects to customer strategies and operational plans; conduct Post Implementation Reviews.
• Complete and file project documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Presentation Skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting customers in delivering the business objectives and strategies through the delivery of our client’s solutions to assist with strategic and operational directions. This will include but not be limited to project management and delivery, stakeholder and customer relationship management, aligning with customer strategy, policy and procedures, product customization design, team Leadership, financial management, partnering with the customer to advise and guide on change management issues and new process improvements.

Main duties and Responsibilities:

Project Management and Delivery

• Development of project plans – including estimation of resource requirements (skills, software, hardware etc.) and timeframes, scheduling, budgeting, dependency identification and management, and change management planning
• Management of project delivery according to approved project plans, objectives, budgets and document progress
• Stakeholder management – through active involvement and regular communication with key stakeholders
• Project status reporting to key stakeholders including progress against milestones, issue and risk management details and budget versus actual costs
• Management of project issues and risks – including: issue and risk identification, logging, assessment and treatment strategies
• Management of project scope change through defined project change management processes
• Alignment of projects to strategic and operational plans of the Customer
• Conduct of Post Implementation Reviews to identify and implement process improvement for future projects
• Completion and filing of project documentation

Consultative Relationship Building

• Active promotion and realization of the benefits and value associated with project delivery and professional service delivery in particular.
• Earn the trust of key client executives and personnel through demonstrated expertise, high quality delivery, and candid insight
• Actively seek opportunities to expand value to the client within current scope and through proposal of project extensions and additional projects

Profitability Management

• Managing chargeability of our client’s resources deployed
• Managing personal chargeability
• Management of stakeholder expectations in line with delivery capability and priorities
• Alignment of deliverables and business needs and requirements. Customer awareness of an agreement with scope and contract terms. Obtaining signoff on completion of deliverables.
• Managing invoicing process including proactively building client understanding of invoiced charges.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years in Project Management
• PMP Certified a strong plus
• Ability to manage customer expectations in accordance with work priorities
• Strong inter-personal and relationship management skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• High level of presentation/persuasive communication skills