Hybrid Associate Project Manager

at Arctiq

• Job title: Associate Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Las Vegas, United States

About the role

• Associate Project Manager responsible for managing small to medium IT projects for client satisfaction. Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, while meeting business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overall delivery of projects on time, on budget, and within scope
• Ensure the use of best practices for delivering projects
• Manage external client relationships (expectations, communications, escalation, feedback, etc.)
• Be proactive in taking the initiative and the lead for identifying and resolving issues
• Assess and manage risk, issues and change within and across all assigned projects
• Manage third-party partner and/or vendor relationships, as required within projects
• Adhere to the project objectives and success criteria as outlined in the project statements of work
• Manage the tasks and milestones as outlined in the statements of work
• Ensure delivery satisfaction with key client business stakeholders
• Prepare all required detailed internal and external status report
• Be able to identify project change requests and handle them effectively and efficiently
• Ensure established business and PMO delivery processes are followed
• Keep the appropriate people informed and up to date including team members, senior management and the business on the status of projects
• Manage project budgets and financials, and escalate issues as required
• Managing project plans, schedules, RAID logs, financial milestones, time tracking and all other extensive artifacts and administrative activities within Arctiq’s project management systems

Requirements

• A degree or diploma in computer science, information technology, enterprise security, project management, business or other related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 2+ years of progressive project coordination or project management experience managing small to medium scale IT projects
• Prior experience working on external client facing projects
• Any prior experience working for a professional services organization, VAR, or an MSSP
• Demonstrable success at project delivery in both short-term projects and long-term projects
• Ability to actively balance a full workload of projects in parallel on an ongoing basis (25-40+ small sized projects and engagements)
• Demonstrated PM competencies: planning, budget, and timeline management, scope management, risk management, communications management, timely decision making, effective team building
• Excellent presentation skills - must be comfortable communicating with teams from multiple levels of the organization both internally and externally
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong financial acumen with a keen eye for detail in managing budgets, revenues, margins, invoicing, and forecasting
• Understanding of resource allocation management and forecasting
• Experience in System Development Lifecycle and Project Management methodologies (including waterfall, Agile), and the ability to apply them in a flexible manner in various situations
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) is considered an asset
• Agile project management designations (ie SAFe, CSM) would also be considered an asset.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Accommodations for interview process