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Job Description

Park Place Technologies is a global data center and networking optimization firm. Powered by the world’s largest on-the-ground engineering team, a robust group of advanced engineers and our fully staffed, 24x7x365 Enterprise Operations Center, we offer a robust portfolio of IT solutions to optimize networking and data center Uptime and performance. As the industry leader, our 2500 Park Place Associates provide support to 21,000+ customers in more than 154+ countries. We are proud to service 90% of Fortune 500 companies and 40% of Forbes 100 clients.

Our company’s strength and success are a credit to our Associates, and Park Place Life is how we communicate and deliver our culture internally. We have been awarded as a NorthCoast 99 “Best Workplace” winner for 10 consecutive years in recognition of our employee commitment. Park Place Life is about collaboration, responsiveness, diversity, and integrity, and represents everything that makes our company great and our culture unique.

Top Rated Benefits We Offer:

• We cover 100% of your Healthcare benefits!
• Flexible Vacation to promote work-life balance.
• 12 weeks of Paid Maternity Leave
• Profit Sharing
• 401K matching contributions and earnings are always 100% vested.
• Plus, much more!!!

Position Overview:

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing the execution of technology focused projects of significant complexity from conception through delivery, including successful project definition, planning, budgeting, time estimating and scheduling, project staff planning and resource leveling, organizing, and leading high performance project teams, and delivery of projects within assigned organization. This role manages all factors that govern project success to ensure high quality delivery within time, cost, and quality parameters. This role influences stakeholders and resource managers to follow standard project management practices and achieve project goals.

What you’ll be doing:

• Works with multi-functional teams to define, estimate, and document the overall scope of projects with significant complexity; may provide direction to other Project Managers.
• Develops and presents business case, develops project plan and identifies resource needs, procures necessary resources, defines roles on project teams, leads team meetings, and assures healthy team dynamics.
• Facilitates meetings and conducts needs analysis resulting in requirements definitions and functional specifications. Garners appropriate input from broad range of business and IT sources.
• Develops robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity.
• Analyzes present state, develops alternative future state approaches and facilitates implementation.
• Serves as primary contact to senior department managers for critical change initiatives within a highly matrixed environment.
• With limited guidance, develops a sound implementation plan meeting the project strategy, within the budget and timing constraints.
• Coordinates activities of project teams involved in all phases of the project.
• Serves as a central point of communications for team members and project sponsors.
• Proactively manages the project delivery and approvals with little supervision, resolves action items, issues, and risks.
• Manages multiple projects at one time on a consistent basis across the company.
• Identifies subtle issues that could result in major conflicts.
• Facilitate training/onboarding plans for new hires and employees as needed
• Mentor PM 1(s) as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

What we’re looking for:

• 15+ years project management experience or equivalent.
• PMI/PMP certification or equivalent is very highly preferred.
• Experience working with project and portfolio management Tools (Visio, MS Project, MS DevOps and so on.).
• Experience managing projects focused on hardware infrastructure through application development and deployment.
• Full project life cycle experience is mandatory with exposure to waterfall, agile and iterative delivery methods.
• Proven track record of leading teams through the development life cycle.
• Demonstrated project leadership skills.
• PMI/PMP certification or equivalent is very highly preferred.

Skills Required

• Leadership
• Project Management
• Business Case Preparation
• Change Initiatives
• Delivery Of Projects
• Functional Specifications
• Project Delivery
• Project Plans
• Project Risk
• Visio