Sr. Consultant - Program and Project Management

Plaster Group LLC is a business and technology consulting company. We are looking to hire a Sr. Consultant to join our team and lead our clients' projects. This person will lead highly complex projects and phases of complex projects for a business unit, department, or functional area. The Sr. Project Management consultant may need to provide some limited functional support for the department. The ideal candidate is a polished IT professional who has the soft skills to navigate competing stakeholder interests, motivate a highly capable delivery team, and implement a quality solution in a timely, predictable manner.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate or participate in all phases of the project lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training, and closure
• Ensure that the project achieves the expected results within time and on budget
• Direct the work of others
• Ensure effective ongoing communication throughout the project
• Meet with key managers to coordinate meetings, assignments and deadlines
• Communicate changes to appropriate parties; Identify issues and resolve or escalate them as appropriate.
• Gather, organize, analyze and, report information in support of moderately complex projects to improve profitability, reduce costs, streamline operations, or enhance customer service
• Represent business unit, department, or functional area on cross-functional project teams; Track progress towards achievement of project goals
• Facilitate complex team meetings involving business and technical resources; Demonstrate credibility as an IT partner to ensure business and technology decisions are reached to support business goals and objectives.
• Maintain project documentation and prepare activity reports on the project's status, timeline, and budgets

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 10 years' direct work experience in a project leadership capacity
• Demonstrated experience implementing web and/or mobility
• Specific functional/technical subject matter expertise in Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship management
• Proven experience managing complex projects from conception to completion with limited guidance. Experience across the entire delivery lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrated ability to command the attention and respect of senior level leaders and confidently make presentations to large and executive audiences
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Minimum of an undergraduate degree from a recognized institution. MBA or equivalent desirable
• PMP/PMI certification is desirable
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Ability to deliver excellent customer service
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information
• Moderate/Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Project
• Analytical, problem solving and conceptual skills
• Ability to define objectives, scope and resources for projects contained within a department or business unit
• Knowledge of concepts, techniques and tools relating to coordinating and tracking projects; Knowledge of standards, practices and techniques of project management
• Ability to organize large volumes of data for compilation, analysis and retrieval

Other:

• Respect for the individual and his or her contributions
• Actively listens to client and teammates; makes others better
• Critical thinker
• Positive attitude in challenging environments
• Driven to produce a quality product; is goal-oriented

Fulltime salaried position with benefits. Must be physically located in the Seattle area. Criminal background check required for all employees. For more information, please visit our website: www.plastergroup.com.