Position Details   
Client: Banking   
Title: Project Manager   
Location: Tampa, FL 33610 (Hybrid) 
Duration: 6 months + Possible extension   
Schedule: Shift hours: Basic Business Hours   
Start Date: ASAP 

Job Description: 

• The Project Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business.  

• Recognized technical authority for an area within the business.  

• Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers.  

• Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables.  
• Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family. 

Responsibilities: 

• Manages a large multi-faceted project/account/campaign or multiple projects at the same time. 

• Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. 

• Documents, organizes and helps drive conclusion to new challenges and drive business results. Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver within budget and on desired outcomes. 

• Drives end results of the project as a representative of the business. Works closely with key stakeholders to define a project scope and objectives for project execution. 

• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports including weekly/bi-weekly status reports, steering committee reports and Adhoc summaries as requested. 

• Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur. 

• Applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.  

• Defines, teaches, and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. 

• Assesses and articulates project issues and risks, bring the appropriate stakeholders together to solve problems and document when the issues/risk has been properly addressed, mitigated and/or closed. 

• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.  

• Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues. 

• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes. 
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members. 

Qualifications: 

• 6-10 years of project management experience – preferably from a mortgage or financial services environment 

• PMP certification strongly preferred 

• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals. 

• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis. 
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional. 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred