Project Manager III (Contract Talent)

Who We Are

Robert Half, one of FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies and a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For is hiring for a contract Project Manager III to join the Corporate Services Financial Business Systems department.

What You'Ll Do

• Plan priorities that impact multiple or enterprise/global projects.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery of multiple projects with highly complex issues.
• Project point of contact for communications, milestones and review briefings.
• Accountable for assuring effective transition into production and meeting production acceptance readiness criteria.
• Highly effective organization of meetings to ensure flow, participation, progress, proactive mitigation of risks and issues; can train others.
• Develop, update and maintain project plan and other project documentation.
• Manage, lead project team in, project activities including analysis, design and development, testing, training, implementation and post implementation.
• Assign tasks, provide guidance, mentor project team.
• Plan and direct schedules to ensure the project is completed on time and within budget.
• Analyze and facilitate resolution of issues; carefully controls change.
• Interact with necessary stakeholders/team members to manage project scope and identify, evaluate, communicate, escalate issues.
• Communicate status of project within/across depts.
• Optimize results through highly effective communications.
• May be enlisted to assist in gathering portfolio data, preparing presentations, completing data analysis, or other ad hoc tasks to contribute to the overall vertical or enterprise portfolio.
• Communicate status of project within/across depts.
• Optimize results through highly effective communications.

What You'Ll Need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required
• PMP (or comparable PM certification).
• Certified Scrum Master is a plus
• 7+ years’ project management experience.
• Budget management: consistently maintains and uses project budget and actuals tracking to ensure costs are maintained within the specified tolerance level.
• Impact analysis: consistently able to assess impact for, with minimal supervision, each project aspect and determine if project can expand or not to address new idea, and can train others.
• Project planning: consistently able to independently translate functional requirements into project plans.
• Project implementation: consistently able to effectively implement all project phases.
• Project management fundamentals: advanced knowledge of schedule, risk management, issues management, leadership, and can train others.
• Documentation: consistently clear, accurate, and can train others.
• Communication: consistently demonstrates advanced clear, articulate, concise; verbal and written.
• Organization/prioritization: consistently utilized and effective over own work.
• Demonstrated effective (intermediate level) use and experience with MS Visio, Projects, Smartsheets & Excel.
• Leadership skills: extensive, demonstrated experience in lead roles
• Problem analysis and solving skills: consistently applied within project management environment.
• Extensive demonstrated experience incorporating software development life cycle into project plan.
• Demonstrated experience at maintaining forward progress despite conflicting priorities and competition for resources.

The typical hourly pay rate for this position is shown below and is negotiable depending upon experience and location.

$51.44 - $77.88

Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, and dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

Robert Half Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

As part of Robert Half’s Corporate Services facility employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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For positions located in San Francisco, CA: Robert Half will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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