Project Manager

Summary

Join Skillsoft's Professional Services team as a Project Manager overseeing complex learning platform implementations and engagements. You will manage multiple customer projects simultaneously, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery. Responsibilities include defining project scopes, creating plans, managing changes, tracking progress, and communicating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's degree and at least two years of relevant experience managing projects as a billable consultant. Strong communication, project management, and collaboration skills are essential. Skillsoft offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities to contribute to a transformative learning experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or an advanced degree without experience; or equivalent work experience
• Must have experience managing projects as a billable consultant
• Strong experience with virtual and collaboration web tools
• Desktop application skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Teams) with ability to learn new technologies and applications quickly as new application skills are required for the position
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Project management, time management and organizational skills
• Team player and a strong relationship builder
• Ability to conduct business in a virtual environment, working with multiple virtual teams across multiple time zones
• History of effectively managing multiple projects simultaneously, requiring minimal oversight

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Responsible for establishing project plans and schedules
• Facilitates the development of project deliverables with cross-functional teams
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
• High level oversight of projects managed within a customer portfolio
• Proactively tracks and reviews project accomplishments and results against plans
• Executes appropriate risk management to ensure business priorities and quality standards are met
• Communicates status of the project to internal and external customers and management
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of LMS or LCMS platforms, and preferably the integration of learning content with LMS platforms
• Knowledge of talent transformation, Learning & Development, organizational learning, and/or change management