Project Manager (1-5 years)
24 hours ago
Newark
Project Manager U.S. Citizenship or Green Card required Analytics responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering large-scale IT and analytics projects for utility clients. This role ensures successful execution across scope, schedule, budget, and quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Key Responsibilities • Plan, coordinate, monitor, and implement large-scale analytics and IT projects, • Manage project scope, schedule, cost, and quality to ensure successful delivery, • Direct project team personnel and manage cross-functional teams, including vendors and stakeholders, • Develop project management plans, governance processes, and work breakdown structures, • Manage project financials including budgets, forecasts, accruals, and tracking actuals vs. plan, • Ensure contract compliance and serve as the primary customer interface, • Coordinate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, • Ensure requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per PMO standards, • Track project milestones, timelines, and deliverables to ensure on-time completion, • Provide regular project communications including status reports, dashboards, and updates, • Lead multidisciplinary teams including executives, SMEs, schedulers, and controllers, • Support risk assessment, planning, and execution across project lifecycle, • Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and ensure alignment with business needs Required Technical Skills • Project Management methodologies and PMO processes, • Project financial management (budgeting, forecasting, accruals), • Project scheduling and scope management, • Analytics project management experience, • Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Smartsheet, or similar tools, • Risk assessment and project planning, • PMP certification or equivalent, • Previous project management experience within a utility environment Qualifications & Experience • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience), • Experience as a Project Manager, • Experience managing analytics projects, • Strong experience managing project financials, schedules, scope, and testing, • Strong communication and presentation skills, • Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment, • Excellent customer-facing, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, • No security clearance required