Project Coordinator

Our client is seeking a Project Coordinator - Delivery Lead with experience in Resource Management, MSP governance work, and documentation as this individual will be working with multiple business units.


Contract Duration: 6 month contract (possible for extension)

Location: North Chicago, Illinois 60064

The Project Coordinator is responsible for governing the deployment of all projects, across all products, related to the [Business Domain]. Responsible for ensuring that all required project assets are in-place and operational prior to project commencement. This includes, hardware, software, onboarding of external service provider personnel or contractors. Will collaborate with internal partners and external service providers to ensure high quality and efficient delivery of service with regard to Service Level Agreements. Working collaboratively and developing strong partnerships with IT Line of Business groups, the Business Consultants, Solution Architects, Business Relationship Managers and Technical Leads for the [Business Domain] are essential in the delivery of strong results.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or relevant area.
• 5 - 7 years of technology experience and related management experience in multiple business and technical processes.
• Requires understanding of project management methodologies and tools.
• Requires knowledge of outsourcing methodologies and operating models, and working with professional services firms.
• Requires experience overseeing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration.
• Some experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies would be good.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams towards task completion.
• Knowledge of business and technology trends.

 

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide governance and oversight for all project execution within the [Business Domain] for all new implementations or modifications through production service transition to ensure service and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with external service providers, system integrators or internal resources to ensure efficient project delivery.
• Perform continuous cost optimization of project delivery services.
• Ensure that all projects assets are ready for use by project team including onboarding of personnel, hardware and infrastructure, environmental readiness, software licensing, etc.
• Participate in the Long Range Planning process.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, gain efficiencies and improve financial performance across project delivery or all projects.
• Collaborate with service management organization to improve service transition, change, release and deployment into production processes.
• Analyze SLAs and KPI to identify trends and partnering with PS leadership to drive improvement
• Provide Project Management and Service Delivery Expertise and guidance to service provider, system integrator and/or internal resources as needed to ensure [Business Domain] stakeholders projects are delivered as planned.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate, Divisional and IT Policies and procedures.
• Work with the IT Line of Business units and other client teams to monitor project delivery performance against defined Service Level Agreement’s (SLAs).
• Conduct frequent and formal meetings with IT Line of Business units to review / discuss overall application development project status.
• Continually improve working relationship with IT LOB units and service providers.
• Work with internal and external services vendors to ensure superior service delivery.
• Ensure that service provider is adhering to client's development standards and/or review and assist with the approval of new/additional development standards that are proposed by service provider.
• Ensure documentation is captured in the document management system; publicize deliverable location to the organization as necessary.
• Participate in project estimating / planning processes.
• Monitor resource usage allocation for projects being delivered via external service provider Project Delivery Services methodology.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.