Project Manager

MRI India; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MRI Software, LLC is seeking a Project Manager in the Project Management Office who will drive execution from initiation through delivery, ensuring projects meet quality, time, and budget objectives aligned with business and technical goals.

You will partner with cross-functional leaders and teams to coordinate schedules, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications, acting as quarterback to deliver offerings that succeed in the market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent program/project management experience.
• 3–5 years of working knowledge of and experience with project/program management.
• Experience leading a team or directly supervising them.
• PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and milestone project plans across multiple product lines.
• Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions.
• Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Tracks open issues, negotiates to impact decisions and trade‑offs, and guides issues within internal and external groups to resolution.
• Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
• Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans, and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management.

Skills

Planning

Communication

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Prioritization

Project management experience

Team leadership

Detail oriented

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP certification

Job description

As a Project Manager in the Project Management Office at MRI Software, LLC, you will be responsible for driving execution of projects, from initiating project management to client delivery, and ensuring that these projects deliver on time with high quality, in accordance with stated business and technical objectives. You will play a quarterback role in partnering with all cross‑functional leaders and team members to deliver the approaches and work required for an offering to succeed in the market.

Responsibilities

• Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and milestone project plans across multiple product lines.
• Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, adapting and modifying plans based on changing data or conditions.
• Assists in planning and ensuring that a project tracks to resources, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Tracks open issues, negotiates to impact decisions and trade‑offs, and guides issues within internal and external groups to resolution.
• Holds program team members accountable for their commitments, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
• Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks, proposing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans, and communicates in a timely manner to stakeholders and senior management.
• Identifies project or product dependencies, tracks, and reports on their progress when required for go‑live.
• Proposes workable solutions to problems by analyzing business and technical trade‑offs among alternatives, using objective judgment and influence to formulate and drive consensus on recommendations.
• Frames communication and discussions for the intended audience, with appropriate context and line of sight.
• Ensures that the appropriate documents exist and are broadly communicated to drive shared vision among the program teams.
• Creates clearly understandable and actionable success criteria, objectives, and requirements, and communicates them to the team.
• Conducts and effectively facilitates project team meetings to update status, identify, and resolve issues.
• Achieves quality results through strong team interaction, effective cross‑team collaboration, and taking ownership of the success of the initiative.

Qualifications

• Strong planning acumen and self‑starter that prioritizes against delivery goals.
• Excellent communication strengths to anticipate needs and ensure teams have the information they need to be effective.
• Analytic and strategic thinking based on deriving insights from disparate pieces of information and translating those insights into action and mitigation plans.
• Solid decision‑making skills despite ambiguous data and situations; considers upstream and downstream operational impacts as decision inputs.
• Balances long‑term vs. short‑term objectives.
• 3‑5 years of working knowledge of and experience with project/program management.
• Experience working with software development or software migration projects.
• Experience leading a team or directly supervising them.
• Detail‑oriented and extremely organized, with proven ability to establish priorities and achieve results with strong communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent program/project management experience.
• PMP certification is a plus.