Professional Services

Project Manager

Description:
The Project manager is the key role on the Zilliant implementation team providing focus, organization and the drive to deliver timely, high quality results. The Project manager has overall responsibility for the successful completion of Zilliant implementation projects. This may involve oversight and/or coordination of teams comprised of Zilliant, Alliance partners, and client personnel.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies required resources and assembles and guides project.
• Creates and maintains the project plan and manages the preparation of project deliverables per the milestones in the plan.
• Manages project risks in accordance with established Zilliant Project Management methodology.
• Provides leadership for the development and maintenance of a high performance project team.
• Provides billable project management oversight to the customer's project. Delivers the project within the financial parameters set forth in the Statement of Work.
• Communicates frequently with team members, third-party consultants, client staff and management regarding project status. Identifies and resolves project issues promptly.
• Manages customer relationships.

Skills:  

• Effectively leads project teams to successful completion of project, encouraging collaboration, promoting the flow of information among all participants, and providing clear direction on how to meet project goals.
• Provides clear direction, establishing clear and achievable goals and standards.
• Organizes time effectively and determines the right resources needed to effectively perform job assignments.
• Develops working relationships with clients and individuals in other business units by understanding their perspectives and issues.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent time management skills. Organizes time effectively and determines the right resources needed to effectively perform job assignments.
• Takes initiative to achieve value-added results, within scope of responsibility.
• Works with minimal direction but promotes an open flow of information so that all concerned are well informed.
• Writes documentation and complex reports in a clear and concise manner and presents information in a well-organized, clear and efficient manner.

Experience:

• Typically requires 5-7 or more years of enterprise application software implementation experience.
• Prior experience as part of a management team (lead role with plan, resource and issue/change responsibilities) that successfully managed a full life cycle implementation.
• Experience in supporting business development opportunities through proposal creation, review and presentation.
• Knowledge of business functions and expertise in business analysis techniques. Specific knowledge of pricing practices a plus.
• B.A./B.S. or equivalent work experience. Advanced degree in a related field and/or Master Certificate in Project Management preferred.
• Specific experience implementing ERP, SCM, CRM or Price Execution Systems a plus.
• Experience with analytics, business intelligence, OLAP, data warehousing, operations research, and statistical modeling/optimization techniques a plus.

Other:

• High integrity, high energy and strong work ethic.
• Willing to travel an average of 2 to 3 days per week.

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