Project Manager

Job Summary:

We are looking for an independent, motivated, and enthusiastic IT Project Manager. If you are a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and strong interpersonal skills, as well as an excellent understanding of project management approaches, we'd love to consider you for this opportunity. This position reports to the Manager of Professional Services Project Management and interacts with global business, management, and technical teams to develop consolidated project plans, status reports, and metrics, spanning all project areas.  

Responsibilities: (including but not limited to the following) 

• Develop a full understanding of customer requirements, identifying project deliverables and outcomes.
• Working with clients from project initiation to completion, which encompasses the planning, organizing, and management of resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
• Develop and monitor schedules to ensure that projects are completed within established deadlines.
• Assist with the development of project plans, including project timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
• Identifying project risks, mitigation strategies and communicating status and risk issues to stakeholders.
• Lead status meetings, tracks and maintains detailed issues and risks lists, and prepares appropriate project meeting minutes and status reports.
• Meet regularly with related service providers to ensure that integration issues are identified and resolved.   
• Interfaces with all levels of business and technical management staff, as well as project teams to facilitate problem resolution and the resolution of competing priorities.
• Monitors team progress to ensure that project objectives are met.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Demonstrate experience in a project delivery environment; ideally in a junior PM/ Project Coordinator type position. Project Engineer or other relevant backgrounds will be considered.
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Strong Presentation skills; able to collate and summarize meetings.
• An interest in Technology and/or business operational improvement.
• A self-motivated individual, able to work independently and part of a larger team
• Be flexible for evening and weekend work
• Be flexible for hybrid commuting to our Dallas office

Essential Skills and Experience Required: 

• Must have 2-3 years of experience in executing small to mid-sized technology projects focused on client infrastructure onboarding, 
• Must possess strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. Must be motivated, decisive, flexible, and possess sound business judgment.
• Ability to handle and manage stressful situations in a professional manner.
• Strong presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to lead meetings.
• Strong proficiency in Office 365, SharePoint and Azure.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Project or the equivalent. 
• Ability to manage multiple tactical and strategic project initiatives.
• Ability to manage remote resources and projects.
• Ability to prioritize project requests from business and technical teams.
• Ability to protect project scope and set expectations with the customer.
• Experience within an IT Service Provider environment would be advantageous.
• Relevant Project Management certification a plus.

The Benefits of Working for Abacus: 

• Exposure to diverse array of technologies 
• Competitive compensation 
• Robust benefits package: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k, and PTO 
• Positive, friendly, supportive office environment 
• Workplace perks such as healthy snacks, and fun events