Senior Project Manager

Company: Apps Associates

Location: Acton, Massachusetts

Required Experience: 20 years of experience

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing medium to large sized technology implementation projects with medium to high complexity on a global scale and/or with multi-technology components.  This individual will also be responsible for working closely with the Apps Associates’ PMO on internal initiatives to grow the Practice. This position reports to the Practice Director or a Managing Principle within the Apps Associates PMO.

Job Duties

• Collaborate with client contacts managing cross-functional client project team members to facilitate project delivery
• Collaborate with Apps Associates project team members, who are both onshore and offshore, to successfully deliver projects
• Manage the execution of the project’s activities and resources in partnership with the division technical leads and business partners
• Lead project teams through scoping definition and ensure all execution efforts align to project goals
• Lead the establishment of measurable and achievable critical success factors for the project
• Control planning and execution to ensure that cost, time, and quality goals are met
• Develop and maintain project plans and related project artifacts
• Provide view of plans and progress to date
• Manage against the approved budget and recommend course correction as necessary.
• Conduct periodic stakeholder meetings to ensure status clarity and clear expectations
• Adhere to the Apps Associates project management methodology
• Possesses the ability to turn troubled projects around when and if needed
• Make continuous improvement a priority – The Senior Project Manager should have a solid grasp of basic and many advanced project management principles, along with having experience in successfully applying and advancing those principles.

Work Requirements

• Remote work approved with on-site/customer facing work required periodically depending on project phase and/or customer requirements
• For remote work, associate must have a dedicated space to conduct/attend meetings and perform job duties

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 20 years) work experience. If Associates Degree, must have minimum 12 years work experience. (focus in Business Administration or Information Systems preferred)
• 8+ years of consulting experience, most recently in a Senior Consultant, Manager, or similar level role
• Leadership of a minimum of six (6) full life-cycle implementations in the Project Manager role
• Global/multi-product implementation experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong time management, organization, and collaboration skills 
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Microsoft Project or Smartsheet (preferred)
• Proficiency with the Microsoft suite of business productivity tools (for example: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, One Note, Teams)
• Strong understanding of the cloud software development lifecycle including waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies.
  • Oracle Cloud ERP (Fusion, SCM, Financials)

Project Management/Technology Experience Requirements:

The Senior Project Manager must have project management and/or hands on experience with at least three (3) of the following technologies:

• Oracle HCM or Oracle PeopleSoft
• Oracle EBS
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Amazon AWS
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Custom Software Development (with the Enterprise space)
• Integration technologies such Boomi, Mulesoft, Oracle Cloud Integration Service or equivalent
• Salesforce implementation experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP Certification (PMP, PGMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP)

General Requirements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers and suppliers.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.