Job Responsibilities
Lead and deliver projects and programs. Accountable and
responsbile for project deliverables results. Manager projects
in the multi-million dollars range. Manage group of indviduals
(5-75) within the project timeline delivery. Responsbile to
inform and update the executives of the company on the project
progress. Responsible to secure funding through Governance for
project initiation. Responsbile to assemble and negotiate
project resources.
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Job Requirements
Bachelor degree in engineering, IT, Finance or equivalent.
Master Degree in Business, IT, Finance or Engineering, or
equivalent is a plus.
Professional Project Manager (PMP) from the Project Management
Institute (PMI) is strongly recommended.
Education or training in project management is strongly helpful.
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Uppers
Managing people, projects and programs. Delivering results in a
time-constrained manner. Inventing solutions, resolving issues and managing risks
are all uppers.
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Downers
Many people and organizations do not understand project
management and think it is a waste of time. Many people are
used to doing things certain way and are opposed to change.
Many executives have no clue what project management can do for
them and do not promote it.
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Lifestyle
Very demanding. Very stressful and a lot of pressure. Those in consulting
positions, travel quite a bit. Requires lots of movement to contact people and
to follow up on issues, action items, etc.
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Compensation
Base Salary is $115K.
Bonuses are = up to 16% and is dependant on the individual
performance and the company performance.
No stock options.
Benefits are fine, including medical, 401k, good vacation plan
and good no of sick days.
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Advice to Jobseekers
This is a challenging and interesting field. If you like to
interact with people and resolve problems, then this field is
for you.
If you don't like people, challenges, resolving issues, etc.,
then you can't be in this field.
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