Senior Project Manager (#197)

N-iX is looking for a passionate, skilled and motivated Project Manager to join the team.

Our customer is the leading school transportation solutions provider in North America. Every day, the company completes 5 million student journeys, moving more passengers than all U.S. airlines combined and delivers reliable, quality services including full-service transportation and management, special-needs transportation, route optimization and scheduling, maintenance, and charter services for 1,100 school district contracts.

N-iX is building cooperation with the client through several projects of different sizes and durations. Currently, the account contains around 10 projects in different stages and keeps actively growing.

Responsibilities:

• Taking full responsibility for project execution, including estimations and planning, budgeting, and customer communications;
• Managing several sub-teams of a big and long-term project;
• Establish communication channels with the Client’s representatives, and provide regular progress reporting;
• Managing overall communication during Project Phases;
• Working closely with the entire Team on project phases goals;
• Execute the changes and perform risk management;
• Manage team’s performance appraisals, provide feedback on performance and work on goals;
• Work with Team Leads and other team members on project delivery analysis;
• Resource planning and staffing. Motivating and developing a project team;
• Establishing smooth processes and executing process improvements;
• The assistance of the Delivery Manager in project management;

Requirements:

• Upper-intermediate English written and verbal communication skills
• 4+ years proven experience in IT project management (during last 5 years)
• Successful driving at least two projects hands-on from initiation to final delivery without supervision
• Proven experience in managing projects with predictive (waterfall ) and adaptive (agile) software development life cycle
• Proven experience in project start and establishing of all necessary processes on the project from scratch
• Proven experience in management of solution-based/fixed-scope/fixed price projects
• Proven experience in managing cross-cultural/cross-functional/distributed teams
• Experience in managing at least 20 subordinates on multiple projects or at least 30 subordinates on single project
• Proven experience in project cost management