Lead Project Manager

OTSI (Object Technology Solutions, Inc) has an immediate opening for a Lead Project Manager. LEAD PROJECT MANAGER (St. Louis, MO)

• Establishes project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and a broad range of stakeholders including both business and IT.
• Responsible for the management and implementation of projects and programs across all project phases, following best practices
• Develops project plans and associated communications documents.
• Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the satisfaction of the customer/sponsor
• Accountable for managing multiple partners and third-party vendors to ensure all parties understand and deliver project goals and business expectations.
• Negotiates with other department managers for the acquisition of required personnel from within the company.
• Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path.
• Plans and schedules project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Tracks project milestones and deliverables.
• Develops and delivers progress reports and requirements documentation.
• Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies potential crises, and devises contingency plans.
• Defines project success criteria and disseminates them to involved parties throughout project life cycle.
• Conducts project post mortems and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Proactively manage risks and issues and respond quickly in the event one is triggered or realized
• Creates templates and standards to measure duration, milestones, resource requirements and costs to ensure successful delivery of assigned projects.
• Manages multiple, large projects with budgets over one million dollars.
• Manages complex multi-vendor projects which contain multiple streams (requirements, development, quality assurance).
• Partners and collaborates with business owners to minimize operational risk and disruption.
• Acts as a lead and mentor to other Project Managers across the IT Department.
• Other duties as needed or required.

• Strong familiarity with project management software such as Microsoft Project.
• Highly competent in use of MS Office tools
• Familiarity with business diagram tools like MS-Visio
• Relational database experience with Microsoft SQL Server.
• Technically competent with various software programs, such as Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem- solving capabilities.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments.
• Ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products.
• Customer service skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or business administration with an emphasis in management information systems or equivalent work experience.
• 7 years of direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Certification in project management, Agile PMP (Project Management Professional) preferred