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Position Title:     Project Manager

Location Information  

Hybrid – Kansas City, MO (Mon through Thu on-site / Fri remote)

Position Responsibilities:

As a Project Manager, you will oversee multiple enterprise projects, working closely with cross-functional teams including both technical and business stakeholders. You will act as a liaison between project sponsors, vendors, and team members, ensuring open lines of communication and efficient expectation management throughout the project lifecycle. You will be tasked with resolving complex issues, facilitating critical discussions, and ensuring all assigned projects are delivered successfully. Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Managing projects to achieve objectives within defined scope, quality, time, and budget constraints.
• Delivering project products, phases, and milestones as specified in the project plan, including obtaining formal sponsor signoff at key stages and upon project completion.
• Ensuring that quality assurance and quality control standards are met as planned, and enabling continuous improvement where possible.
• Monitoring and reporting project progress, adjusting schedules and plans as needed, and managing tradeoffs between scope, schedule, quality, and cost to meet agreed-upon tolerances.
• Directing, motivating, and managing project teams, and overseeing resources to ensure efficient project execution.
• Developing, maintaining, and updating detailed project plans, schedules, forecasts, and actuals; proactively managing deviations from plan.
• Communicating with all project stakeholders, including organizing and conducting team meetings, status reports, steering committee briefings, and other relevant forums.
• Liaising with sponsors, customers, vendors, partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure transparent communication and managed expectations.
• Escalating critical decisions and unresolved issues to higher management for prompt resolution.
• Driving project closure efforts including preparation of lessons learned, closing out all budget and financial issues, archiving documentation, and ensuring appropriate handoff for ongoing support.
• Ensuring business case alignment and clearly documenting and communicating project requirements and objectives to all team members.
• Validating and tracking Key Success Indicators to effectively manage project health and performance.
• Enforcing project governance through adherence to established EPMO methodologies, standards, and processes, including training team members on procedures.
• Documenting, obtaining approval for, and enforcing project change management, while making recommendations for continuous improvement of project processes and templates.
• Managing project budgets, authorizing expenditures, tracking financials, and providing regular budget reporting.
• Leading project risk assessments, identifying and mitigating potential risks proactively.
• Reviewing contracts and statements of work, ensuring proper approvals and stakeholder involvement at all required touchpoints.
• Participating in interviewing and approving contract or permanent project resources as needed.

Essential Skills, Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline, and at least 3 years of progressive experience in IT project management.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology, terminology, and techniques.
• Demonstrated goal-orientation, action focus, and self-discipline.
• Advanced proficiency in project planning, team organization, motivation, and task delegation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for liaising with various teams, stakeholders, and management levels.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills, with proven experience handling complex issues and challenging situations.
• Solid understanding of project financial management, including budgeting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting.
• Experience in monitoring project risks, change management, and escalating issues as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Experience in the banking sector is a plus.
• PMP certification or equivalent is highly desirable.
• Experience with leading fraud-related projects is considered beneficial.
• Familiarity with Project Portfolio Management tools (such as Sciforma, Microsoft Project, Primavera, etc.) is advantageous.

ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Our policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Veterans of our United States Uniformed Services are specifically encouraged to apply for ECCO Select opportunities.

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