Senior Project Manager

Role: Senior Project Manager

Location: Parsippany, NJ (onsite)

Duration: 6 months

Pay Rate: $57 W2

Duties:

" Lead complex digital projects from start to finish: websites, mobile apps, MarTech and content platforms

" Build and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones and critical-path dependencies across several workstreams

" Manage scope, change control and release planning, including MVP and post-launch phases

" Own RAID management (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) and put mitigation plans in place

" Coordinate several third-party vendors and hold them accountable for SOW deliverables, defect fixes and deadlines

" Track project finances, including actuals, forecasts and estimates to complete, and confirm vendor invoices

" Oversee testing readiness, including UAT, defect triage, regression and go/no-go decisions

" Run status meetings, Scrum of Scrums and steering committee updates

" Write concise status reports for senior leadership

" Follow PMO governance, including project control documents, funding requests and audit documentation

Skills:

" Over 7 years of project management, with at least 3 years delivering digital projects (web, mobile, eCommerce or MarTech)

" Has led full website replatforms or digital launches in a matrixed organization with many vendors

" Comfortable with both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall, and with hybrid approaches

" Good working knowledge of digital platforms such as CMS (Adobe Experience Manager preferred), analytics, SEO and content authoring workflows

" Very proficient in Jira and Confluence; experience with Smartsheet, MS Project or Clarity

" Advanced Excel skills for tracking and reporting metrics

" Strong at managing vendors and negotiating with them

" Clear, executive-ready writing and speaking; can keep complex status brief

" Spots risks early, solves problems and makes decisions under deadline pressure

" Builds working relationships across business, technology, creative and vendor teams

" Hospitality, travel or loyalty experience is a plus

Education:

" Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing or a related field (or equivalent experience)

" PMP certification preferred

" Agile certification (CSM, PMI-ACP or SAFe) preferred