Project Manager

Kolme Group; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kolme Group, an international consulting company, is seeking a Project Management Strategic Consultant to lead SaaS project implementations. This fully remote position offers operational flexibility, mentorship, and a collaborative culture focusing on client success. Ideal candidates should possess extensive project management experience and relevant certifications, aiming for high client satisfaction and effective project delivery.

Benefits

Fully remote work

Schedule flexibility

One-on-one mentorship

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of project management experience required.
• Experience in managing PMOs or large programs essential.
• Strong financial knowledge and ability to write reports needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer SaaS project portfolio management implementation projects.
• Maintain key relationships and ensure contract goals are met.
• Facilitate communications between technical stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Decision making

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business management, project management, or related field

Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP), or Prince2 Practitioner certification

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) preferred

Tools

MS Project Online

AdaptiveWork

LiquidPlanner

Job description

No solicitation for services. We are not interested in agencies or contracting. The best way to apply for our openings is through our job board. Please do not contact anyone within our organization directly as your application may be lost.

Kolme Group provides consulting services to help our clients attain the highest value from their investment in Project Management (PM). Come join our growing international PM consulting company with a culture that focuses on maintaining the balance between customer-centric and employee-centric foundations.

At Kolme Group, we understand how flexibility allows our team members to deliver exceptional results to our clients. This role provides boundless opportunities for both personal and professional growth. We are a fully remote organization that offers schedule flexibility, one-on-one mentorship, and an extraordinary culture lead by an inspiring leadership team. If you are driven, like to exceed expectations, and want to work with an awesome group of people, we want you to apply for this opportunity.

BASIC FUNCTION OF THE JOB

The Project Management Strategic consultant, hereafter PMSC, primarily is responsible for leading customer SaaS project portfolio management (PPM) implementation projects utilizing a combination of business process analytical skills, a deep knowledge of project management best practices, and PPM technical aptitude to convert existing customer processes and requirements into technical solution designs.

This role requires a good balance between Project Management knowledge and experience, and technical capabilities, as the job duties require client management, Project Management consulting, and technical oversight of project management information systems.

WORK PERFORMED

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are a team at Kolme Group: we all take part in sales development activities in order for us to thrive in today’s market. Business opportunity cultivation is a long-term investment in time and energy aimed at growing our company. This involves recognizing potential clients, discovering market expansion opportunities, developing strategic relationships, spotting prospective project expansion, upselling to meet client needs, and collaborating with the sales team to convert leads into sales. We win together!

Essential Functions of the Job:

· Maintain key relationships both internally and within the enterprise client environments

· Plan and execute PPM implementation projects for mid-market and large enterprise clients

· Maintain client expectations such as SLA adherence and high levels of customer satisfaction.

· Ensure contract/project goals are met and drive customer satisfaction and success

· Professionally address and resolve technical and business issues escalated by team members

• Ability to understand legal documents such as Scope of Work (SOW) and Business Requirements Documentation (BRD)
• Critical thinking, including strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities, and the ability to work with ambiguity.

· Provide functional consulting services by acting as a subject-matter-expert to lead clients through a PPM deployment (implementation, staged releases)

· In conjunction with clients, ascertain and document business requirements for translation into technical solution designs for implementation in the client’s PPM environment

· Identify functional gaps and develop creative solutions for clients

· Advise clients on options, risks, and any impacts to other processes or systems as needed, with input from technical SMEs as required

· Solid ability to facilitate communications between a variety of highly technical stakeholders

· Develop administrator and end-user training materials

· Deliver administrator and train-the-trainer training

· Gather client requirements via standard tools, interviews, and documentation analysis

· Analyze data against client business priorities, standardized benchmarking, market / industry best practices, and PPM capabilities

· Provide guidance in rationalizing or standardizing processes

· Document requirements and gain consensus with client stakeholders and team members

· Create plan / roadmap to convert client’s processes into mature PMO operations or PPM technical solutions

· Apply strong analytical thinking and creative problem solving to client challenges

Technical duties:

· Commit to expertly learning the supported SaaS PPM both in customer-facing functionality and technical, back-end capabilities

· Transform functional and technical requirements into detailed designs, including process flows and wireframes

· Develop technical documentation to support long-term administration of implemented PPM solution

· Partner with project team to define testing scenarios and develop test scripts to support User Acceptance and Systems Integration Testing (UAT and SIT respectively)

Other duties as assigned

In this role, you will get to:

· Work side-by-side with leadership who focuses on the success of the team

· Work on varying projects, learn new things, collaborate with clients

• Expand your expertise! You will learn how a variety of businesses operate, what challenges they face, and how project management technology can fundamentally improve their businesses
• Help mid and large sized companies realize the potential of data-driven PPM

Measures of Success & Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s):

Attain measurable and visible increase in the following areas:

· Meet billable utilization targets each month, with a minimum of 70%, goal of 75%, stretch goal of 80%+

Profitability:

· Maintain project profitability by adhering to scope, timeline, and budget

Client Satisfaction:

· Closing projects with the Kolme/Client relationship in good standing

· Demonstrates professional approach to client concerns

· Renewal or re engagement of client projects

Personal Goals:

· Completion and/or satisfaction of personal goal as established by management

· Invest, at minimum, 5 hours of Professional Development per quarter

SUCCESSFUL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

· Minimum 10 years of Project Management experience in increasingly complex roles required

· The ideal candidate will have managed PMOs, Portfolios, or very large and complex programs

· Consulting or Shared-Services experience essential

· Must have exceptional interpersonal skills, professional presence, and demonstrated experience working with clients

· Keen attention to detail and root cause analysis skills required. Must have ability to read, analyze, and interpret scopes of work

· Must be able to individually drive to a goal/outcome

· Must have strong decision making and time management skills

· Project financial knowledge/experience required and general business financial knowledge a plus

· Ability to write reports and/or business correspondence needed

· Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a wide range of stakeholders (c-level, teammates)

· Should demonstrate high level of competence with standard business software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio

· The PMSC should have experience working with enterprise PPM systems such as MS Project Online, AdaptiveWork, LiquidPlanner

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education and/or Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in business management, project management, a related field, preferred or equivalent experience

· Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP), or Prince2 Practitioner certification required

· Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certifications preferred.

· Minimum of 5 years of professional experience

· Minimum of 4 years of experience implementing a variety of PPM solutions

· Experience implementing governance practices that align with waterfall methodologies