Senior Project Manager

🕒 July 16

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Ascend Technologies

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Manufacturing • Logistics

Ascend Technologies is the largest Technology Solutions Provider in the Central U. S. , specializing in a wide range of IT consulting services including healthcare consulting, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure management, and cloud solutions. Committed to empowering businesses with reliable and scalable technology, Ascend offers strategic consulting, managed IT services, data protection, and application development to help organizations thrive in an evolving digital landscape. With a focus on innovative solutions and a dedicated support team, they aim to transform technology strategies for enhanced security and efficiency.

📋 Description

• Responsible to oversee and guide project teams through project initiation to project close, ensuring the teams follow organizational best practices. • Own overall schedule, budget, and deliverables for assigned project(s). • Use waterfall and/or agile methodologies and practices to plan, manage and deliver technology solutions, as defined by the project scope/SOW. • Schedule and facilitate project events and ceremonies. • Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning. • Plan and organize project deliverables, goals and milestones. • Liaison with stakeholders such as clients, end users, vendors and project personnel regarding defining and documenting project requirements and processes. • Monitor and report project progress, issues and risk to internal and external executive sponsors and stakeholders. • Assist in owning and executing change management processes. • Guide project teams through go-live and warranty phases. • Provide ongoing and post-project evaluations/retrospectives. • Ensure knowledge transfer or project to appropriate support teams. • Partner with various IT management teams to ensure appropriate prioritization and resource allocation of projects. • Own prioritization processes for assigned projects against overall enterprise backlog to ensure teams are focused on highest value work. • Train, mentor and support other project managers and project teams to follow PMO best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required, degree in Information Technology, Communications or related field preferred. • 4+ years of experience managing IT projects using Waterfall, Agile and/or hybrid methodologies. • Proven expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban or Lean) and familiarity with traditional project management practices (Waterfall, PMBOK). • Strong communication and interpersonal skills. • The ability to communicate clearly and concisely in oral, written, and presentation formats is essential. • Aptitude to accept complex assignments, analyze and prioritize problems, execute tasks, motivate others and have some fun!

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental, and vision insurance • retirement savings options • flexible time off (FTO) • professional development opportunities