Job Title: Project Manager - IV
Duration: 7 Months
Location: Bellevue, WA

Summary:

• Position is accountable for managing programs (either technical or enterprise-wide business initiatives), which may consist of multiple-tiered complex projects with high visibility, aggressive schedules, and requiring significant negotiation to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and achieve specific business goals or objectives for the Enterprise.
• Leadership views this role as a trusted advisor and consultant, leveraging deep industry, business, and technical expertise alongside Program and Project Management skills to drive and deliver the capabilities essential to the company’s success.
• Accountable for managing enterprise-wide programs that are focused on providing leading-edge business technology solutions, product innovations, and/or world-class technical infrastructure.
• Manage work utilizing standard project management methodologies, processes/procedures – projects have clear start/end dates; specific manpower resource allocations, and budgets, and are clearly identified as a "project" by the business.

 Description:

• Is accountable for and directs others in the creation of all project communications.
• Directs others in the facilitation of team and project meetings.
• Identifies potential risks across a broad number of individual projects and programs and establishes communications and mitigations to address them.
• Communicates risks in clear business terms and technical terms and provides clear messaging and solution options at senior leadership and executive levels in both planned and ad hoc scenarios.
• Understands what is important to different stakeholders in the business and ensures that their interests are protected as well as the overall program objective throughout project planning and execution.
• Creates and assists others in creating a project schedule through defining needed activities, sequencing, resourcing, estimation of durations and resources, and negotiates the schedule with the team to find creative ways to meet it.
• Uses and helps others to use the schedule as a communication and management tool to ensure the project stays on schedule, making needed adjustments to address project exceptions and incorporating ways to make delivery more efficient.
• Defines the scope of Programs.
• Incorporates strategic factors into the Program/Project Scope and recommendations.
• Influences and manages the factors that create change and scope creep.
• Can manage and help others to understand the implications of change, including legitimate scope shift.
• Leads cross-functional or multi-team efforts in defining budget requirements for a project or program, providing thought leadership on initial financial estimates for the business case.
• Drives business case generation with finance and the business owner.
• Drives the process of procuring funding at a project or program level.
• Collects monthly budget forecasts, collects actual data from finance, and applies accounting practices appropriately to maintain budget integrity.
• Identifies factors that can drive potential variance early in the forecasting process and limits project activity to maintain expenses within the allotted budget.
• Provides proactive and accurate reporting on any unresolved variance to leadership.
• Hold functional Resources accountable for performance within the budget allocation.
• Plans, identifies and documents the project quality standards.
• Set stakeholder and project team expectations and ensure that the deliverables align with business needs.
• Maintains accountability for the quality of the documentation and deliverables.
• Adheres to and manages standard processes and change boards.
• Establishes Go/No-Go decision points and quality control points with the stakeholders to ensure project deliverables meet expectations.
• Continuously assesses the quality of the documentation and deliverables.
• Proactively anticipates and mitigates issues through validation and testing using Testing methodologies.
• Uses best judgment to make informed decisions on quality factors that can be compromised.
• Communicates any gaps in design and sets realistic expectations on deliverables.
• Follows through and closes all the defined exceptions.
• Leads with the procurement and functional manager in the creation of SOWs, RFIs, and RFPs.
• Ensures that all appropriate legal protection, such as NDA and MSA, is in place.
• Validates deliverable and budgetary impacts for completeness and accuracy.
• Manages vendors against contracts to ensure quality deliverables before payment authorization.
• Provides proactive feedback to vendor management as appropriate and communicate and ensures compliance with company standards and values.
• Uses innovation to eliminate bureaucracy by proactively identifying and recommending changes to standard processes and procedures.
• Drives implementation of changes to streamline standard processes and procedures.

Must-Have Requirements:

• At least 7 years of relevant experience is required.
• Bachelors is a must.
• The position requires a broad technology background and a proven leadership track record.

Preferred:

• PMP (Certification).
• Technical tools, project management related.
• MS suite, PowerPoint expertise.

 
  

About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
 
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
 
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LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $71.55/hr.