Sand Cherry is hiring a
Project Manager

Summary

This role involves project management and delivery of IT systems/platforms/migrations for a telecommunications client, with a focus on establishing and maintaining relevant program systems, strategy, documentation, and large excel reports. The position is a long-term remote consulting opportunity.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years strong program/project management experience
• Proven IT Systems and Data Management experience
• Experience specifically with system migrations, integrations and/or implementations
• Experience and knowledge in Telecommunications industry is preferred
• Strong leadership, stakeholder, and management skills
• Good knowledge of resource allocation procedures
• Excellent oral and written communications skills to stakeholders including the ability to influence, strategize and negotiate
• Ability to think analytically and process information quickly, presenting it in a succinct and insightful format suitable for executives

Responsibilities

• Daily program/project management throughout an established program’s life cycle
• Create long term strategy and planning
• Document program, project plan, RAID logs, support checklists and project deliverables
• Utilize client’ project management methodology
• Integrate business policies and governance planning & accountability for project roadmaps
• Establish risk management, escalation paths, and take corrective measurements
• Own overall integrated project plan and manage cross-functional resources, ensuring on-time delivery, meeting of budgetary demands, and achievement of business goal
• Manipulation of very large data files in Excel
• Align deliverables (outputs) to the program/project workstream’s “outcome”
• Review vendor deliverables to confirm outcomes against SOW expectations
• Manage resources across projects, including the coordination of user, IT and vendor resources
• Facilitate and lead daily project meetings and manage stakeholders’ communication
• Identify program KPIs to assess impact
• Coordinate, manage and monitor the workflow of cross-functional teams
• Provide and perform quality assurance checks on project artifacts and deliverables
• Perform product management functions, such as owning the design blueprint, making enhancements/changes directly to the application, and hosting user office hours
• Revise training materials and user support documents to be appropriate for each wave
• Identify how new use cases and workflows need to be addressed to use the application

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency with SmartSheet, PowerPoint and Advanced Excel skills are necessary

Benefits

This is a long term consulting engagement, with an hourly range of $70-80/hr