Duration: Full time, salaried opportunity
Location: Sterling, VA with travel to client sites in Metro DC area and/or onsite client in Metro DC area
Government Security Clearance Requirements: Government security clearance required. TS/SCI. Must possess active clearance. Security+ certification required.
Description:
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall supervision, project execution and profitability of a major Department of Defense engagement. The Project Manager is focused on the project management process, business analysis, solution generation, customer satisfaction and account management. Overseeing a multi-disciplinary staff, the position is responsible for leading, motivating, and mentoring his or her team.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure successful project execution across multiple projects
- Achieve pre-determined profitability levels for all projects
- Ensure corporate quality assurance standards are met for all projects
- Coordinate the creation of the Project Charter including baseline scope, schedule, budget, etc.
- Ensure client status reporting meets approved contract requirements
- Provide first level escalation for project or customer issues
- Identify gaps in stated requirements and actual business needs
- Perform requirements gathering and analysis
- Develop and implement test plans to ensure successful delivery of a project
- Accurately determine, assign, track and manage project task, activity, documentation and time information per internal standards
- Manage variance on scope, schedule budget and create change requests and coordinate communications with client and management specific to assigned projects
- Assess the impact of issues in a timely manner and communicate with internal and external teams to ensure “no surprises” execution of plan
- Identify sales growth opportunities and provide experiential knowledge during the development of technical solutions, i3solutions competitive advantages, and cost estimation
- Develop and cultivate client relationships at management and executive levels to grow long-term relationships and capitalize on equity and partnership opportunities
- Develop a partnership with client and create a positive relationship to clearly understand processes, short and long-term objectives, and functional goals
- Provide additional consulting to improve customer service and enhance overall ROI to client
- Participate in resourcing decisions as well as assist in interview process and recommendations for hire
- Perform consultative post-sales role with client regarding implementations, configurations and solutions
- Continually seek and capitalize upon opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationship
- Review high-level deliverables across team
- Ensure quality assurance procedures are performed
- Improve operational margins through innovation and process engineering
- Consolidate and analyze profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across the team
- Help ensure team meets or exceeds budgeted financial objectives including revenue and margin, based on project charter
- Successfully execute Corporate Project Methodology
- Help to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities
- Help manage the development of team members by ensuring that project tasks are in line with employees’ career interests
- Act as both a formal and informal mentor for team; coach and counsel on business, organizational and client relationship management
Requirements:
- TS/SCI Clearance Required
- DoD approved 8570 Baseline Certification preferred
- Department of Defense environment experience
- BA or BS from an accredited college or university; Master’s Degree preferred
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including clients, project team and other individuals within i3solutions
- Apply strong business skills and methodologies to lead a team in the implementation of solutions to meet a client’s needs
- Tactfully communicate sensitive information
- Challenge others to develop as leaders while clarifying roles and responsibilities
- Evoke creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and career plans to fruition
- The ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from large groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public
- The ability to write necessary business correspondence and documentation, effectively and convincingly
- Outstanding customer service skills
- Solid work ethic with a willingness to work overtime to meet client demands
Send all applications to recruiting@i3solutions.com.
**Please note: Resumes sent in a Text format will not be considered as they are incredibly difficult to read. Word formatted resumes are ideal.**
i3solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
EOE/M/F/D/V