Project Manager

Valiant Technologies LLC; Lansing (MI); Híbrido; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Valiant Technologies LLC in Lansing, MI is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead complex government IT initiatives. The role requires coordinating cross-functional teams, managing multi-vendor relationships, and ensuring adherence to state methodologies across the project lifecycle.

The position is hybrid, with in-office work on Monday and Tuesday and remote work Wednesday through Friday. Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills are essential for success in

Formación

• 8+ years as a Project Manager in IT projects.
• Experience managing projects with budgets over $20 million.
• Experience delivering IT projects in large government environments.
• Experience coordinating multi-vendor or third-party providers.
• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive multiple concurrent projects with minimal supervision.
• Experience interfacing with business and technical owners.

Responsabilidades

• Prepare information for presentations to executives, managers, and project team members.
• Monitor, control, and communicate project progress across cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Provide leadership and foster collaboration between technical and business teams by obtaining consensus.
• Manage interfaces with other agencies.
• Ensure project adheres to Michigan methodologies and lifecycle stage transitions.
• Facilitate Change Management and ensure Change Requests have proper approvals.
• Understand project benefits and impacts of changes to the business case.
• Review vendor contracts and manage deliverables and approvals.
• Clarify stakeholder expectations and ensure deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Organizational skills

Vendor management

IT project mgmt

Educación

PMP certification

Herramientas

Clarity

Descripción del empleo

• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for managing and communication of interfaces related to other agencies.
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the State of Michigan’s methodologies, including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
• 8+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 8+ years of experience managing IT projects within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects and driving work to successful completion with minimal supervision.
• Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system/ business owners from other departments.
• Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS).
• Oversee technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other relevant project management certification.
• Experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (eg. Clarity).
• Previous experience working within state government, the Department of Corrections, or other public sector agencies.
• Local to Lansing, Michigan area (within 1 hour) is highly desired. Work will be Monday and Tuesday in office; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday can be remote (non- negotiable).

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.