Job Description

Introduction
At IBM, our Project Managers excel by leading and coordinating a project teams overall performance, scope, cost, and deliverables. Our clients rely on timely and efficient status reports, and as Project Manager, you will drive the charge with project direction, metric definition, and performance management. If you are ready to help our clients and project teams succeed, we would love to meet you!

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Client Innovation Center has immediate opportunities for Technical Project Managers. Consultant will have the standard Project Management skill set but with particular ability around stakeholder management, risk management and the effective management of multiple project service providers and third-party vendors.

Project Managers will be responsible for delivering the project from the phase of inception to closure. Project Managers will work on complex projects which are typically of higher risk (technical, organizational, reputation), high value or are of strategic importance. They will also work on large programs of work involving multiple organizations and technologies with high business visibility.

Job Role:
Responds appropriately to urgent technical support situations and procedures with quick and effective solutions to business problems. This includes after hours work as needed.

* Be able to track the deliverables and milestones closely, bring to the attention of the client and all stakeholders of the priorities. Manage Scope, Schedule, Budget.
* Be able to understand deliverables and assess their quality. Be well versed with activities that make up a given service (e.g. Security Services, MW Management services, Discovery, Insight, etc). Relate relevant services to the SOW and manage the dependencies that may exist across external teams.
* Have sound knowledge on the definition of done for a given service.
* Experience working as Project Manager on Application Modernization / Application Development / Mainframe engagements. Experience as a Scrum Master.
* Leads innovation/creativity discussions: Ex Design Thinking, Agile, Cloud Platforms.

The IBM Client Innovation Center is an in-bound delivery model where we support our clients from our Baton Rouge center. However, some travel is expected and all candidates must be willing and able to travel to meet our client needs across the US. Travel is typically related to knowledge transfer and training at the client site (Monday thru Friday). You are expected to travel up to 50% of the time. This position requires relocation to Louisiana within 30 days of the office permanently reopening. No remote opportunities exist.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

* At least 3 years of experience in Project Management
* Experience negotiating with and managing third parties.
* Experience with working with clients and stakeholders within the business.
* Ability to direct the work of others.
* Ability to work in a team environment.
* Ability to work collaborative

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

* At least 2 years of experience with project management methodologies
* 1+ years of experience with MS project or other project management scheduling tools
* 3 years demonstrated client interaction and excellent communication skills; both (written and verbal)
* 2 years experience successfully managing a range of complex, high value IT projects and programmers from requirements definition through to project closure.