Beacon Technologies is seeking a Certified Project Manager III for our client partner. The Project Manager III Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan, and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope. Project Manager capabilities with 12 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects. Experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.

Top desired skills required for the position:

• Thorough understanding of industry standard project management methodologies and reporting including PMP (or similar industry standard) Certification.
• Strong customer service and relationship management experience.
• Experience managing multiple in-flight business intelligence/data warehousing and application development projects simultaneously.
• Project documentation skills and experience to support project chartering, scoping, and other project deliverables.

Our client is looking for a results oriented and adaptable individual with a ‘can do attitude’ to lead business intelligence projects, legacy, and modernized software/application development projects for business partners. This project manager will lead multiple projects from small to multi-million-dollar development efforts. The project manager will work with other project managers and possibly with other departments. The person in this role will lead the business intelligence and software/ application development team members to complete projects and work closely with our business partners to ensure its success.

The individual in this position will:

• Be responsible for technical and overall project management on enterprise-wide business intelligence, software/application development, and infrastructure/ architecture projects.
• Works closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks. Solves complex technical problems.
• Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide business intelligence.
• Builds an effective team and directs the work of the project team to meet project milestones. Develops standards, policies and procedures for the form, structure and attributes of the business intelligence documentation, tools, and systems.
• Develops data/information quality metrics.
• Develop and maintain project charters, plans, deliverables, and other project artifacts.
• Work closely with the project sponsor and IT senior management to understand and prioritize project tasks, solve complex technical problems, understand business objectives and problems, identify alternative solutions, and perform feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis.
• Research new technology and develops business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. Participate in special projects as required.
• Have 12+ years of project management experience with leading large and complex database management systems, business intelligence tools and systems.
• Selected candidate must provide copies of any/all certifications as part of the hiring process.
• The candidate should have strong communication skills and should be a team player.

Qualifications:

• Change management Must Have 5+ years
• Project management Must Have 12+ years
• In depth knowledge of System development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development Must Have 12+ years
• Demonstrated competence in promoting understanding and cooperation within and between organizations Must Have 12+years
• Group facilitation Must Have 12+ years
• Experience in technical writing and documentation Must Have 10+ years
• Analytical/problem solving skills Must Have 10+ years
• Excellent oral and written communication skills Must Have 10+ years
• Excel (MS) Must Have 10+ years
• Outlook Must Have 10+ years
• MS Office Products Must Have 10+ years
• MS Project Nice to Have 3+ years
• Expertise in implementation of large complicated models and processes Must Have 5+ years
• Excellent organization, analytical and communication skills Must Have 10 years
• Strong verbal communications skills with ability to clearly present information and ideas to groups Must Have 12+ years
• User test, system test and user acceptance test plans Must Have 5+ years
• Data analysis Must Have 5+ years
• Informatica Must Have 5+ years
• Data Warehouse – experience in data warehouse design and development Must Have 5+ years
• Data Warehouse - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse Must Have 5+ years
• Knowledge of Kimball data warehouse design principals Nice to Have 5+ years
• In-depth knowledge of system development life cycle deliverables for each phase of development Must Have 5+ years
• Requirements analysis Must Have 5+ years
• Requirements gathering Must Have 5+ years
• Scope & Risk Management Must Have 12+ years
• Business Objects or other BI tools Must Have 5+ years
• Demonstrated experience in the design and utilization of performance measures and reports Nice to Have 3+ years
• State of Wisconsin Privacy Regulations Nice to Have Previous experience
• Work with customers to solve problems and support their needs Must Have 10+ years

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.