Strategic Project Manager at The Planet Group Strategic Project Manager at The Planet Group in FAIRFAX, Iowa Posted in 4 days ago.

Type:

full-time

Sr Project Manager Location:

Cedar Rapids, IA (Hybrid)

Contract:

8 months Sr Project Manager |

Qualifications:

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required. Five or more years of project management experience managing medium-to-large, complex projects. Demonstrated experience managing technology, software implementation, enterprise application, or technology-enabled business projects. Demonstrated experience leading projects through initiation, planning, execution, implementation, transition, and closeout. Experience working with cross-functional teams that include business, technology, project management, vendor, and operational stakeholders. Preferred Experience Experience performing or leading business analysis, requirements discovery, business case development, feasibility assessment, solution evaluation, or project initiation activities. Experience establishing new projects through chartering, resource planning, governance preparation, scheduling, risk assessment, and mobilization. Experience developing executive-level recommendations, decision materials, project status reports, and presentations. Experience supporting enterprise work and asset management, utility operations, ERP, EAM, or other large-scale business and technology initiatives. Experience managing vendor-delivered solutions, contracts, Requests for Proposals, and third-party project resources. Experience working in a matrixed environment in which project resources report to multiple business or functional areas. Sr Project Manager |

Responsibilities:

Project Initiation and Business Analysis Partners with business and technology leaders to understand strategic priorities, operational needs, business challenges, and desired outcomes. Leads or supports business analysis activities to define the business need, clarify the problem or opportunity, identify impacted stakeholders, and document high-level business and functional requirements. Translates business needs and strategic objectives into clearly defined project concepts, business cases, charters, implementation approaches, and executable project plans. Facilitates discovery sessions, requirements discussions, planning workshops, and stakeholder alignment activities across business, technology, and project teams. Develops or supports business cases, funding requests, cost-benefit analyses, feasibility assessments, and executive decision materials for proposed initiatives. Defines measurable business outcomes, success criteria, performance measures, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and value realization objectives. Evaluates solution and implementation alternatives in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders. Documents recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, costs, resource needs, and organizational impacts to support informed decision-making. Monitors technical and business developments that may affect an initiative and provides recommendations regarding project direction, sourcing approach, sequencing, continuation, modification, or termination.