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Project Manager IT ( 4700 - Greensboro, NC )

Sharp Decisions, Inc

  • Greensboro, NC
  • 11 days ago

    Highlights

    Coordinate cross-functional project teams, SAP functional and technical resources, infrastructure, security, testing teams, external vendors, and business subject-matter experts to maintain alignment and delivery accountability. Facilitate project meetings, requirements workshops, design reviews, testing checkpoints, readiness reviews, cutover planning sessions, and post-launch stabilization meetings; document decisions, owners, and due dates.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationGreensboro, NC
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size500 to 999 employees
    Year Founded1990

    Description

    Project Manager - PS&P

    Location / Work Setup

    • Location: Greensboro, NC
    • Work Type: Onsite - 4 days per week
    • Employment: W2 Only

    Responsibilities

    Project Management

    • Lead project planning, scope, schedule, resources, milestones, and governance.
    • Manage RAID items, including risks, actions, issues, and dependencies.
    • Provide project status reporting and maintain strong stakeholder engagement.
    • Coordinate vendors and cross-functional teams to ensure delivery accountability.
    • Manage project quality and change-control activities.

    Delivery Lifecycle

    • Coordinate requirements and design activities.
    • Manage System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
    • Oversee defect management, readiness, cutover, and go-live activities.
    • Support hypercare and transition to production support.

    What Will This Person Be Working On

    • Lead project planning and execution for PS&P initiatives by defining scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, schedules, dependencies, resource needs, and governance expectations with business and IT stakeholders.
    • Coordinate cross-functional project teams, SAP functional and technical resources, infrastructure, security, testing teams, external vendors, and business subject-matter experts to maintain alignment and delivery accountability.
    • Maintain integrated project plans and track actions, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests; escalate items requiring leadership direction and follow through to closure.
    • Prepare clear project status reports covering accomplishments, upcoming milestones, schedule health, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and required management actions.
    • Facilitate project meetings, requirements workshops, design reviews, testing checkpoints, readiness reviews, cutover planning sessions, and post-launch stabilization meetings; document decisions, owners, and due dates.
    • Coordinate SIT and UAT planning, test readiness, execution progress, defect triage, business sign-off, deployment readiness, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to support.
    • Apply change-control and quality-management practices to validate scope changes, assess business and technical impacts, coordinate approvals, and protect committed delivery outcomes.

    What We Want

    • Strong project planning and execution experience across scope, objectives, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resources, and governance.
    • Experience coordinating SAP functional and technical teams, infrastructure, security, testing, vendors, and business stakeholders.
    • Strong RAID management, project tracking, risk and issue escalation, dependency management, and change-request experience.
    • Excellent communication and reporting skills, with the ability to prepare executive-ready project status updates.
    • Experience facilitating requirements workshops, design reviews, testing checkpoints, readiness reviews, and cutover planning.
    • Hands-on experience with SIT, UAT, defect triage, business sign-off, deployment readiness, go-live, hypercare, and transition to support.
    • Strong understanding of change-control and quality-management practices, including assessing business and technical impacts and coordinating approvals.

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    About Company

    For over two decades, Sharp Decisions has provided superior, award-winning service in strategic business and technology consulting services to government agencies at all levels, as well as domestic and global corporations. With subject matter expertise in Investment Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Media & Telecommunications, and Manufacturing, Sharp Decisions is well equipped to serve your needs.

    Established in 1990 with headquarters in New York City, and locations in Princeton, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Europe and Canada, Sharp Decisions has been the technology backbone for a client portfolio that includes an array of well-known companies. As a Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise and approved vendor, Sharp Decisions offers a powerful, cost-effective advantage. We actively partner with other MBEs to add value and meet diversity program requirements.

    Sharp Decisions is also committed to hiring and training post-9/11, tech-savvy U.S. armed forces veterans through our V.E.T.S.â„¢ (Vocation, Education and Training for Service members) Program, but we cannot do it alone. Companies like EmblemHealth, Freddie Mac and Experian have stepped up to bring aboard our highly qualified and skilled veterans. We need more companies like them to take a stand and bring our veterans aboard. Our clients have told us that our veterans are more effective than their college hires because two weeks on the job for them equates to 2-3 years of experience! Learn more at www.sharpdecisions.com/vetsprogram.

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